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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Comics 1106-1108: Spooky Shit, Man
1107. The Tweet in the alt-text is longer than 140 characters. The service described is also indescribably sad. The joke is also pathetically unfunny. D-
1108. Eh, not bad. B-
186 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 4:50 PM
B-?!?!?! 1108 was literally a steaming pile of shit!ReplyDeleteReplies
I mean it wasn't some clever reference I missed, right? Just that people who mince over the world literally aren't changing the world ... haha?Delete
He didn't took butterfly effect into account. That's unnerdy.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM
@1:24: You're not supposed to take the butterfly effect literally.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 5:18 PM
I find it amusing that Randy of all people finds it annoying when people asp out over misusing "literally." He pulls that shit all the time and thinks it's so hysterical that he writes a comic about it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM
i literally your reviewReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 6:33 PM
please link to the comics in the posts so i dont have to go find them myselfReplyDeleteReplies
- Random UnrollSeptember 17, 2012 at 9:24 AM
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- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Why would you have things going off in your refrigerator when you don't even cook? Maybe I just don't understand the shopping habits of people who don't know how to look after themselves, but everything in my refrigerator is either milk or destined to be part of a cooked meal.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Why don't we make this blog about Islam? I'm jealous that some shitty film maker was able to incense so many people while the xkcd fans don't even care about us anymore. I want to piss people off again.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM
We love Osama
Better to make it about atheism, you would get 666 metric fucktons of angry zealots ranting in the comment section, yet you wouldn't have to worry about any of them blowing you up.Delete
man, trolling atheists is so beautifully funDelete
maybe we can change the blog URL to atheismsucks
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:36 AM
Atheism is simply the unfounded belief that there is no god.Delete
It's more stupid than theism because at least that doesn't counter the principle of causality.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:55 AM
Sure, because as we all know, deities need not be created. Technically consistent with causality since physical laws don't apply to them. (<sarcasm)Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 6:02 AM
That's exactly right, yes. Causality demands that everything was the result of something before. Causality itself was created by something indistinguishable from a deity.Delete
The trouble with scientists is that they assume nothing can exist outside of logic, instead of acknowledging that certain statements ("there is no god") are non-scientific.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:06 AM
But if we can postulate that something, whatever it is, didn't need to be created, then why not postulate that causality didn't need to be created?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM
We can ignore Occam's razor and postulate lots of exceptions to make the world seem closer to how we would like it to be.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Yes, we can. Occam's razor is only capable of determining probability, after all, not absolute truth.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 17, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Occam's Razor is not capable of determining probability. It is a heuristic that dictates best practice when establishing the precedence of competing hypotheses. It concretely determines nothing, really.Delete
Also, what is this absolute truth?
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM
@9:11: I don't see how saving us the trouble of postulating a "deity" -- whatever is meant by that -- goes against Occam's razor. Quite the contrary if you ask me. I'm skipping an unnecessary intermediate step.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM
All scientific methods are only capable of determining probability, but when probability goes way above 99% percent we simply consider it an absolute truth for the sake of practicality.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Absolute truth something atheists believe they have a solid grasp of regarding religion, often citing Occam's razor as evidence.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM
"All scientific methods are only capable of determining probability"Delete
Again, this is a misconception. We do not assign probability to scientific laws, since they (by definition) invariably have the trivial probability 1 (or are promptly discarded).
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Jesus was a misconception, but Mary blamed it on God so Joseph didn't think she was sleeping around.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Joseph was a misconception, but God blamed it on Mary so Jesus didn't think He was sleeping around.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM
As Anon@5:36, I just wanted to thank Rob for the initial invitation. If there were a Z(ealotry) parameter, I think Internet Atheism would have a Z at least one order of magnitude higher than Christianity.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM
As Anon 5:55, I just wanted to point out that I actually am not an atheist.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 2:55 AM
5:42 is a dirty atheist in denial.Delete
Go back to the Richard Dawkins evangelism forums, you dirty atheist.
It has occurred to me of late that any god with even a smattering of omnisciency is not remotely interested in chancing his or her hand at even the most popular games involving dice. Not only is God not a supporter of quantum theory and its seeming randomness, but evidently, not to keen on the dice driven role playing games of the 80s either. In particular, I refer to Gods astounding lack of interest in the exciting (although somewhat stigmatized) game - Dungeons and Dragons. Surely this is a missed opportunity on the behalf of the gods to learn effective ways of convincing man of their existence?
Dungeons and Dragons has developed the perfect formula for eradicating in-game atheism - bestow significant powers on the player character who chose to play as clerics. In fact, to my knowledge a D&D game never arose in which a skeptical foe voiced doubt as to the existence of a high level clerics deity. That unbeliever was simply destroyed in a vengeful pillar of holy fire and his charred body plundered for gold.
What an exciting explosion in the ordained numbers there would be if deities began bestowing actual powers on their spokesmen. The local minister could maybe be capable of minor miracles, ie he should be able to perform the equivalent of a holy "bruise-be-gone" prayer or "open-locked-rectory-door-if-keys-are-lost" . The pope on the other hand should be granted some really serious powers. he by right should be able to call up the holy spirit for several minutes to terrify whole nations a la the Staypuff Marshmallow Man.
I can only imagine that atheism in the real world would vaporize overnight if during a routine service the addressing cleric, in a moment of rage, called forth a torrent of briny death to smite those members of the congregation whose charity was deemed insufficient following the passing of the contributions plate. Thats just good religion.
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2012 at 10:28 PM
You really have no better life than this?ReplyDeleteReplies
- weaselsoupSeptember 17, 2012 at 2:26 AM
poor Rob. the Sisyphean task of reviewing this shitey webcomic. every time you publish a review there's already a new xkcd sitting there like a pile of shite that someone has sculpted into the shape of a malevolent toad, going, hah. you can never be up to date.ReplyDelete
the fridge thing is fucking stupid. are those conveyor belts? but then they'd have to move the stuff upwards. wouldn't it make more sense for things to move downwards towards the 'bad' section. there. I have spent more time thinking about this than Munroe did, and he's probably made more selling t-shirts while I've typed this than i will earn today.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 3:56 AM
If I may be so bold, maybe the fridge has multiple conveyors that move at different speeds, so you'd put something with a shelf-life of 2 weeks on the bottom conveyor, and at the end of 2 weeks it just reaches the edge of the conveyor and drops off?Delete
But anyway, it still is stupid; everyone knows that vegetables, which keep for days at most, should be put in the bottom section (i.e. the crisper), not the top.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Come now, 3:56, Randall has never cooked. He is like my retired uncle's partner, who - faced with an illness in the family - had to confess that she did not know how to switch on the stove in her own home. Except at least she was an accomplished academic who excelled in her albeit narrow field, whereas Randall is a useless (TV dinner) eater.Delete
Also the thing with shortest shelf life, milk, would be placed by me in the only location which doesn't have a conveyor.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Most of my vegetables last for at least two weeks. Where do you buy yours, 3:56?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM
in b4 Thatcher "and the vegetables" jokeDelete
Hey, weaselsoup, how is Larry?
- weaselsoupSeptember 17, 2012 at 3:27 PM
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Oh my god. An ideal refrigerator is essentially a perfect engine run backwards, which can't exist because it violates the second law of thermodynamics which states that you can't have any perfect transfer of energy without some being converted into heat. So Randall saying that his "Ideal Refrigerator" is one that dumps the bad food out automatically is just a play one the definition of the term in physics. Its actually a really clever comic if you have a basic understanding of the concepts involved. Just like most of Randall's comics.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 7:18 AM
10:44, I don't understand why that makes it clever. You'll have to explain to me more carefully.Delete
Start off by explaining how a refrigerator is "essentially a perfect engine run backwards". Go on to describing how this system dumps bad food 1) out 2) ideally.
Assume you are talking to a mathematics postgrad who took lots of physics and who has also been taught how to cook well by a professional chef (and loving partner). Thanks.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:12 AM
todays goatkcd is p. greatReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:34 AM
I find it implausible that Randall earns (and I use that word loosely) enough money to be able to afford to waste food.ReplyDelete
Or to be able to afford a fridge.
He is a Trustafarian, right?
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 6:04 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:17 AM
I hate you all.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:17 AM
hi randallDelete
I'm surprised you didn't comment on the awful post-punchline dialogue in 1108.ReplyDelete
Guy: They looked exactly the same.
Ghost: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Guy: OK, I get it.
Ghost: Seriously, this is duuuuumb.
What purpose could the last two lines (especially the last one) have in a joke???Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 8:20 AM
I wonder, do you feel cool now that you've basically told us "I have no understanding whatsoever of basic humor"? Not saying it's the funniest thing in the world (pretty sure I found the comic bad), but denying that these two lines (especially the last one) rely on well-known humoristic devices is just mind-blowingly stupid.Delete
And by that I mean: "are you an aspie".
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 1:17 PM
tl;dr Only aspies don't understand why PPD is funny amirite 8:20?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM
I don't get why PPD should always be bad for one thing. If something adds to the hilarity in a hilariously hilarious way, then what's the problem with it exactly. I think it's just one of these things xkcdsucks people like seeing actually, because they can recognize it. It's like one of the few words you can decipher when you start learning how to read. "Hmmm? Isn't that...Delete
Yup! Yup, haha, you really did see it! Good boy! :D But has it ever occured to you that some people might actually find it, y'know, funny? As in, "it was already pretty good as is, but this just tops it off"? Or are you some kind of NO EXTRA LAUGH!! nazi?
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 4:35 PM
tl;dr "I don't get why PPD should always be bad." [plus a bundle of PPD]Delete
captcha: dicturds. No argument there, captcha generator.
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM
the fridge one was good. first one in a while i've thought was clever and interesting (not funny, though it's not really supposed to be "funny").ReplyDeleteReplies
It only looks clever until you realize that the conveyors would break the convection system inside the fridge and thus FUBAR the refrigeration.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 4:12 AM
That's why it's an 'ideal', not a 'reality'.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 5:53 PM
i have shits and migraine so much painReplyDelete
cheer me up w/ randall demise hatefic pleaseReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:02 AM
RANDALL DIED THE ENDDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:55 AM
thank you. much better now.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Jon Levi, do you have drawings of any other parts of your body? I'd like to see more of you.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:09 AM
Hi Jon.Delete
"......The service described is also indescribably sad. The joke is also pathetically unfunny....."ReplyDelete
I challenge you to write a lovely review that does not expressly depend on the extreme use of that inane rhetorical device known as the 'emotive adjective' for once in your fuckingly bathetic life.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:10 AM
I challenge you to write a lovely comment that does not expressly depend on the extreme use of that inane linguistic device known as the 'adverb-i-shat-out-just-now' for once in your fuckingly bathetic life.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:13 AM
None of the adjectives there were emotive, love.Delete
I prefer the pre-Moffat ALTF. Although this one displays certain dark, angry strengths (weaknesses?), its range is much narrower.
My life is 'pathetic' not bathetic!Delete
Get it right ya cunt!
'pre-Moffat ALTF'?!??!!!?????!!!!!!!!
And yes, the '?' and '!' are in a Fibonacci sequence. So fuck off!
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:22 AM
sad is an emotive (and, contextually, evaluative) adjective you moron. i swear to god this forum is nothing but a gargantuan circle jerk of smug dickwads and humblebrag attention whores.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:24 AM
"once in your fuckingly bathetic life"Delete
"My life is 'pathetic' not bathetic!
Get it right ya cunt!"
yes. yes, you're right.
Anonymous September 18, 2012 7:22 AM said,Delete
".....sad is an emotive (and, contextually, evaluative) adjective you moron......"
True, but Rob did not use 'sad' as an adjective in his verbiage I quoted above you cuntbutlering moronic moron.
What the fuck is a pre-Moffat ALTF?
I gotsta know!
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:33 AM
yes he did you assmunching cumbucket. "X is sad" contains the use of the predicative adjective "sad".Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:35 AM
A modern "pathetic" prompts everything but pathos.Delete
And Anon@7:22 wins The Rt. Hon. Sir Dullard Cup for "most rude yet also stupid".
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:39 AM
a pre-Moffat ALTF, you stink-draped sphincterhog, is a term to describe an ALTF existing in the time preceding Steven Moffat taking over Doctor Who, coined for no reason but that its author felt he was being quirky and cute by implying a causal relationship.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM
My educated guess is that it was alluding to Doctor Who. The current writer, Steven Moffat, writes dark episodes which all use the same plot and character devices, contrasting with the more upbeat and varied Russell T. Davies.Delete
tl;dr 7:13 is saying that you are getting kinda repetitive and have probably lost your joie de vivre.
But it may just be that we have seen enough of the Empress to know that she is completely naked.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM
@7:35 "i don't know what 7:22 was saying but he sounds like a stupidhead and a meanie :(((("Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:45 AM
"sad" is being used in the "inadequate or unfashionable" sense, cum-for-brains.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:45 AM
7:40 Way to doppelgang bro.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:47 AM
@7:43: "i am 7:22 and i realise i was wrong but this is the internet so i would never admit my mistakes, even though i'm anon and it won't affect my reputation. i am so sad."Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:48 AM
"sad" has no "inadequate or unfashionable" sense turdface, that is an extrapolation we make to explain why sadness is inspired.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:49 AM
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra iv. 102 There were certain sad birds among the girls... But it was also understood by every hostess that a popular, attractive young man should not be designated the escort of any but popular, attractive girls.Delete
1938 I. Edman Philosopher's Holiday 97 If you go in for that kind of thing, they think you're rather sad... Sad is..the opposite of tops.
1989 'G. Naylor' Red Dwarf 232 Do you really think I'm the sort of pathetic, sad, weasly kind of person who could get erotically aroused by looking at paintings of matronly breasts?
1994 Guardian 9 Aug. ii. 12/4 They find that they are communicating with the kind of sad anorak-wearers they would never have encountered in real life.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Mar. 62, I love rummaging, and used to list jumble sales as one of my hobbies. (Sad I know.)
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM
hey idiot, maybe you want to read what i said again.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 7:57 AM
Done. All I got from it was confirmation that you're stupid.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM
clearly your capacity for nuance is on par with that of a lobotomized gerbil. the sadness inspired in the observer implies, but is not equivalent to, the inadequacy or unfashionableness of what or who they are examining. when we say something (say, your reading comprehension) is sad, we mean that it makes us sad i.e. the adjective sad applies to us. its cause is insadequacy, unfashionableness, or the raging fuckstickery of idiots, as the case may be. this is why sad is both an emotive and (loosely) evaluative adjective in the contexts described.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM
What a bunch of bullshit, Anon@8:06. When I say "you're sad", I don't mean that you make me sad - I mean that you're lame. If anything, I'm happier in the knowledge that I could potentially suck as hard as you do but don't.Delete
Anyway, "sad" likely comes from Latin satis, conveying satisfaction or enough-ness long before it carried an emotional sense. If you want to play the "it conveys the observer's state" card then a "sad" person is someone, like you, of which I have had enough.
I am looking forward to using the words "hot" and "cool" in the teenage sense so you can tell me how hotness/coolness are respectively "inspired in the observer". I anticipate that you will cite Grease in that witnessing "cool" gives you "chills" which are "multiplying". Tell me about it, stud.
Thanks for the Moffat enlightenment.Delete
It is a sad day when I am excited about Dr. Who.
Anonymous September 18, 2012 7:33 AM said,Delete
".....yes he did you assmunching cumbucket. "X is sad" contains the use of the predicative adjective "sad"....."
Fuck off it does!
We are talking about plain, unvarnished attributive adjectives here. Those fucking predicative adjective are a special case and their use is tantamount to having anal sex with a badger.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Anyone can become angry - that is easy.Delete
But to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
"Easy" is both predicative and a summary of the challenge of outwitting Anon@7:22 et seq.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:48 AM
"durr sad = lame and so are you. far fetched bullshit about etymology of sad; rambling segue into half assed insult."Delete
frankly, i'm not sure why you had to pontificate on emotive and non-emotive adjectives if anything approaching linguistic complexity terrifies you.
the fact that you need me to explain this to you is sad (hint: it actually isn't, it is pathetic and is making me sad). i am describing an emotion and an implicit value judgement here. when you say something is cool you literally mean just that. the adjective cool applies to the object.
- Random UnrollSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Y yall so mad bout t grammarz?Delete
Anonymous September 18, 2012 8:42 AM said,Delete
"......Anyone can become angry - that is easy......"
Fuck off it is!
You're obviously blissfully unaware of the incredibly complex cascade of neuro-transmitters that need be released to feign the level of outrage I portend.
Anonymous September 18, 2012 8:48 AM said,Delete
Some useless crap devoid of capital letters where necessarily appropriate because he/she is one large, ignoramus-like cuntmango.
"it is pathetic and is making me sad"
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Anon@8:48, if you disagree with the etymology of "sad" then you need to write to the editors of the OED &c., not whine at me. Maybe they'll give you a job?Delete
> i am describing an emotion and an implicit value judgement here. when you say something is cool you literally mean just that. the adjective cool applies to the object.
I am cool but you are sad - both value judgements, or am I objectively cool?
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:02 AM
8:50, your anger ought to be directed at that country recently bankrupted by the trade policy of the Fourth Reich.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM
While "sad" in the "lame" sense appeared occasionally in late C19, it was popularised by cartoon "Sad Sack" bowdlerising military slang "sad sack of shit". This term refers to ineptitude, i.e. unsatisfying performance, and not sadness - "sad sack of shit" hardly evokes pathos, now, does it?Delete
Anonymous September 18, 2012 8:58 AM said,Delete
"....I am cool but you are sad - both value judgements, or am I objectively cool?...."
Please to define 'cool' objectively?
Is not cool as it pertains to temperature relative?
Is that not necessarily a subjective determination?
Sad pseudo-cuntilectuals the both of you anonymous anal ring wranglers!
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM
When ALTF calls others pseudo-intellectual, you know Hell has become cool.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Quiet, ALTF - men are talking.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM
"I am cool but you are sad - both value judgements, or am I objectively cool?"Delete
i suspect you do not possess the wherewithal to understand what i have been belaboring for several comments now but here is a last try.
both are in fact value judgements, so you are correct there, but one is only implicitly so. when you say i am sad, you mean i make you sad, which is an emotive adjective as it applies to you, as well as an implicit value judgement of me, making it both an emotive and an evaluative adjective. the adjectives cool, big, uncouth etc. are descriptive and/or evaluative, since they do not describe an emotion.
an emotive adjective is intended to describe an emotion provoked by something, regardless of what the copula is linking it to or what it is next to in attributive form. i do not even know why i wasted this much fucking time expounding on this but i hope you finally get it.
Sad can be understood to have two meanings as does the word 'poor'Delete
"The sad sad man."
"The poor poor man."
Q. E. fucking D.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:28 AM
> when you say i am sad, you mean i make you sad,Delete
You've said this at least eighty times. It is simply bullshit. You are not Propaganda Minister Herr Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Saying it enough times won't make it true. The etymology of "sad" in the general and specific cases has been covered above.
> and an evaluative adjective
It's only this.
> i do not even know why i wasted this much fucking time expounding on this
Because you know you're wrong and are just trying to convince yourself.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM
clearly the victor is the one who asserts the contrary eighty one times.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Speaking of Goebbels, the Internet is full of so much shit but never what I want.Delete
Today I cannot find Wilhelm von Schütz als Dramatiker. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Dramas der Romantischen Schule.
"......clearly the victor is the one....."Delete
What the fuck?
You are both losers - doncha see?
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Oi, ALTF, get yer sugar daddy to buy this.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Using etymology to make a point about the modern use of a word is fucking stupid. This is why modern linguistics (that is, hm, linguistics) was born when Saussure dropped the diachronic approach.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Quiet, ALTF - men are talking.Delete
".....Today I cannot find Wilhelm von Schütz als Dramatiker. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Dramas der Romantischen Schule....."Delete
There is a good reason for this.
Don't you see?
German is the language one uses to converse with one's horse or dog. It is not meant for Internet communication.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM
9:38, read Anon@9:07 and try again. And Saussure didn't "drop the diachronic approach" - that would be entirely retarded.Delete
Let's summarise what went on here: you had an idea about a word which seemed clever when you conjured it up; evidence was offered for why you were wrong, starting with a nudge in the right direction and becoming an explicit refutation; you, fearing a loss of Internet manpoints, are unable to back down and admit that you failed.
ALTF, meanwhile, nudged her head in from time to time, as women are wont to do - but fell at the second hurdle, as women are wont to do. She now jeers from the sidelines.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM
"Using etymology to make a point about the modern use of a word is fucking stupid."Delete
the point being made was entirely about the linguistic classification of the word. no one made any points about its usage.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:51 AM
whoa there, put it away man we all know what a tough guy you are. you seem to have mistaken 9:38 for me.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM
9:51, no-one cares who you are.Delete
".....ALTF, meanwhile, nudged her head in from time to time, as women are wont to do - but fell at the second hurdle, as women are wont to do. She now jeers from the sidelines....."Delete
I jeer from the locker room actually. I'm going through all your pockets as you men joust on the field of prattle.
I've done well so far. I'm hoping for Injury Time to make sure I get the lot.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Oh my dearest ALTF, you now remind me of the attendant around 2:15 in this video.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM
lol well clearly you do, if you're raging at every commenter as if they're 7:22. its okay, you get 5 "Internet manpoints" and a hug for putting us all in our place.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Who said I was male?Delete
I've no audio driver and my dial-up connection is too slow to 'run' video anyway.Delete
You'll have to describe it for me.
At least I don't remind you of your mother. That would be weird.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM
who said you need to be?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM
You reminded me of my mother many weeks ago, I think? Something to do with boat engine nomenclature.Delete
It is The Beautiful South's 36D video. There is a man dressed as a female cinema attendant carrying a tray of food and standing at the entrance to a rugby locker room. The singer sits on the benches and sings about how she is just another 365 night stand. I feel like an audio description service now.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:08 AM
10:05, awful comeback. Time to stop typing.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:09 AM
10:08 excellent put down. 10/10 would read again.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:11 AM
10:09, my balls are now in your mouth. They may smell of ALTF. Savour them.Delete
Anonymous September 18, 2012 10:06 AM said,Delete
".....just another 365 night stand...."
Great line. I am concerned about the Leap Year phenomena though.
Are you manly men finished with your penis pull-a-thon now? Can we all get back to adoring me?
"....They may smell of ALTF....."Delete
I do not smell!
I waft pheromones!
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM
10:03 > 9:57 "At least I don't remind you of your mother"Delete
sure do smell like her.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:27 AM
> Can we all get back to adoring me?Delete
The histrionic are only encouraged to behave more recklessly if you deny the satisfaction (sadness) of attention.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Also, does this mean you're in the dark continent now, ALTF?Delete
Details, please.
I haven't left yet!Delete
For fuck's sake, I'll let you know when the time is imminent.
And it ain't for a few weeks. Okay?
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I mistook the dial-up comment for a Chekov's gun.Delete
Anonymous September 18, 2012 10:37 AM said,Delete
".....I mistook the dial-up comment for a Chekov's gun......"
My computer, or more correctly, the computer with which I use to connect to the Internet, has no audio driver, no keyboard and is connected to said Internet via an antiquated Dial-Up Telephone line.
When I leave this advanced part of the world in which I have found myself o'er these last few months, I will not have any access to the Internet at all. If you should miss my tearful goodbyes in a few weeks time, you will know I am gone because I will be gone!
And I though Chekov used a phaser?
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Oh, the "no keyboard - just pastes from Wikipedia" thing.Delete
I do image you as someone still using Windows 3.1, though - like someone set up Trumpet Winsock for you 15 years ago and you've not dared to change anything since.
15 years ago I was a teenager studying in Paris.Delete
I do not own a computer.
The Tutor does not own a computer.
The two of us use the computer of a kindly stranger who uses it, in turn, for decoration.
I could not possibly care less about computers. For me, they are not even decorative.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Donc j'imagine que tu parles un peu la langue de ces bouffeurs d'escargot. Montre-nous ça.Delete
After vegetating as tailless amphibians for eons, the Frenchman is now to be counted among the anthropoids, apparently.Delete
Nonetheless, I will not sully my palate with that basilectal lingua franca.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM
:'( Why so cruelDelete
I anticipated you responding with a fucking punctuation emoticon, that's why!Delete
I anticipated you responding with a fucking horrid punctuation emoticon, that's why!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM
For a persona who doesn't care about computers, you sure do take the effort to spend hours using your neighbour's.Delete
No effort.Delete
And it is not a neighbour.
I am in a retail outlet sitting at the CRT all day long - getting up now and again to abuse a customer or two and chase them away.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM
7:13, dude, so many Danth's Law I don't even whatDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Why would someone living on a 150 acre estate be sitting at the CRT of a retail outlet all day long, abusing customers?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 5:25 PM
@3:22: I didn't know "Danth's Law", but it sounds like it's formulated vacuously. If you have to state that you've won, it means you've otherwise lost - but if you merely choose to, it could be because you want everyone to STFU and move on.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 5:22 AM
There are several ways to get people to stfu and move on, not least of which is to stfu and move on. Repeatedly claiming you have won makes you look like a dick, regardless of how the argument stands.Delete
Kate Middleton is an anagram for 'naked tit model'. Just saying?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:24 AM
ALTF, why don't you ever hold me?Delete
A condition of my parole.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Also "don milked teat".Delete
And "maid knelt to Ed". Either the Prince or the guy who typically rational Tories equate with Stalin. In fact, imagine Red Ed receiving a blowjob from Kate. Think about it now. Think about his orgasm face. You're picturing it, aren't you?
What is a 'Red Ed'?Delete
Strike that. I don't want to know.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM
It's an emotive colour used by neo-Nazi Rothermere to describe Milliband.Delete
Red is not emotive, cunt.Delete
Scarlet is.
You seek me here, you seek me there,
You Fuckers seek me everywhere.
Am I in heaven? — Am I in hell?
That damned, elusive ALTF-el
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Yeah but per Dullard@7:22 every word is emotive today FUCK.Delete
Aquarian's a Asian Cunt: she's called the Tutor's Whore--
For he's the master Ladies' man who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Interpol, the FBI's despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime--her Tutor's never there!
Anonymous September 18, 2012 9:13 AM said,Delete
".....Aquarian's a Asian Cunt...."
It's 'an' Asian cunt, you adjectivally emotive crème de la crème of cunts.
The Tutor does not defy the law. The Age of Consent is 16 here 'bouts.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM
He only starts telling you he fucks them when they reach 16.Delete
One should never lie outright - merely tell just enough truth to appear honest.
".....One should never lie outright....."Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Because of the effort required to engineer corroborating evidence, of course.Delete
You are obviously not a psychopath.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM
There are many personality disorders, and neither you nor I have them all.Delete
The Anonymous has many personality disorders, but the ALTF has one big one.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM
A single point of success is also a single point of failure.Delete
Pointless drivelDelete
I liked the fox and hedgehog metaphor better.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM
A hedgehog is a mass of spiky extremes, though!Delete
Aye. there's the rube!Delete
And it's 'pikey' not 'spiky'!
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM
hey altf do you have any pics showing your feet?ReplyDelete
i'm horny and i kinda have a foot thing going onReplies
Use fucking capitals and punctuation, where appropriate, and stop ending a sentence with a preposition and I'll consider your request.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Hey ALTF, why shouldn't you end a sentence with a preposition?Delete
The Brits decided they wanted their language to reflect the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome. Accordingly, they adopted the Latin restriction of ending a sentence with a preposition so they could claim their Empire was the logical extension of the march of Civilisation.Delete
What the fuckers forgot though was that English is not a Latin-based - aka 'Romance' - language but a Germanic one. The Germanic language family has no restriction on ending a sentence with a preposition.
So go ahead then, accept your innate Germanic krautness and end your fecking sentences in prepositions like a good Hun. See if I fuck you.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:47 PM
But you love to sleep around. Come on. I'm pretty attractive, besides.Delete
Show me an attractive guy and I'll show you a dozen or so women who are tired of fucking him.Delete
If you want a '365 night stand' with me, you'll refrain from starting a sentence with the word 'But'.
I may be easy and cheap, but I do have lexical standards.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM
But I'm talking dirty.Delete
You're Western!Delete
Therefore, your concept of 'talking dirty' is laughable.
Stick to the whispering of sweet nothings, with the emphasis on the 'nothing', and enrich my bank account and I'll give you the reacharound and relieve you of that DSB now and again.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Why would you assume I was Western?Delete
Myriad reasons.Delete
Your interesting choice of the past tense for the verb 'to be' in your statement above for one.
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 1:54 PM
I would think the slip is evidence to the contrary.Delete
You would.Delete
I wouldn't.
Hey, ALTF. Do you have any vids where you masturbate with a lit dynamite stick?ReplyDelete
I'm horny and i kinda have a exploding vags thing going on right now.
"an" exploding vags thing!ReplyDelete
As a matter of fact, I do have a video of such an occasion.
It's on LaserDisc. Do you have a player?Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Oh, so its ok when Eumesbsfsdknzhrcyjx does it?Delete
Unfair Innit?
Sure. Just mail it to Brazil or the eight circle of hell (same thing).Delete
The eighth?Delete
Brasil and fraud? Maybe if England wins the World Cup in '14 I'll believe that.
I prefer the second
Yeah, there's plenty of lust too. But it's when you see the amount of money laundering, tax evasion and embezzlement of public funds that you see what "Baghdad With G-Strings" is really about.Delete
That has nowt to do with LasrDisc recordings of yours truly, now does it?Delete
No it does not!
Oh yes, I can't wait to have this fine addition to my 840GB collection, so please send it quickly for I'm getting so bored that I even grow tempted to pay one of those break-the-15-minutes-time-limit-for-client-and-you-shall-be-beaten-and-yelled-at prostitutes to piss on my mouth.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Can they pee on demand?Delete
On your mouth?Delete
You mean in your mouth.
A good hooker could do you in 15 seconds with a deftly administered 'non-medical' DRE, though I am sure you know this from first 'hand' experience.
@Anon 2:42 - Some whores specialize in weird clients, so they try to keep their bladders and rectuns always on full.Delete
@ALTF - Sounds fun, so long as the nails are cut beforehand.


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Amatix Office is a complete communication platform for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides email, calendar, contacts, conventional telephony like ISDN, new generation VoIP telephony like SIP, instant messaging, presence, and other features needed to power a business. Amatix Office is very easy to install and use and does not require any special IT skills. It is a live software appliance which boots a computer directly from a CD or USB flash drive without any software installation.
highest is a program that efficiently finds the n highest (or lowest) numbers in a list of numbers on stdin. The traditional way of computing this using GNU sort should have a running time of O(n log n), where n is the number of numbers to check. Highest should have a running time of O(n log m), where m is the number of numbers you want to keep. A graph comparing the performance of highest to that of GNU sort is provided.
Isoline Retrieval uses supervised statistical classification to retrieve isolines from cross-track scanning or similar satellites. It contains software to generate training data using collocation or radiative transfer simulations, as well as routines to interpolate the final fields using a variation of multi-linear interpolation or kernel estimation. The currently-supported satellites are the Advance Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) series and, to a lesser extent, the Global Ozone Measurement Experiment (GOME). An ambitious researcher, however, could easily adapt the codes to a similar satellite.
HLBRW is an acronym for Hogwash Light BR Watch. It is a tool to help make rules for HLBR. In other words, HLBRW was made to be used by HLBR users needing make new rules. It requires some expertise with HLBR, the TCP/IP protocol suite, and regular expressions. HLBRW is a script started by iwatch (a system events watch program) when the HLBR event log is modified. The concept is very single: if the HLBR log was modified, then a known attack was blocked. But the attacker might take other subsequent actions unknown by HLBR. When HLBRW starts, it will coordinate a tcpdump session to record the traffic generated by the attacker's IP address for the next few minutes. If the recorded traffic isn't relevant (without a push in TCP or another relevant protocol), the created file will be deleted. Based on the recorded traffic, the network security manager can make new rules. HLBRW is part of the HLBR project, an intrusion prevention system (IPS) used in firewall systems.

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All things considered, it's not really too much of a surprise that the fifth chapter in developer Bethesda's long-running series of sword-and-sorcery has garnered a comfortable position as Shacknews' fourth best game of the 2011. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim once again transports players back to the sprawling land of Tamriel, thrusting them into one of the series' most compelling main storylines to date, set in the beautiful snow-capped landscapes of the world's titular northern region. Few games sucked up as many of our precious gaming hours this year, thanks largely to sandbox design sensibilities and a vast amount of compelling content.
Refinements like a perk-enhanced progression system and grandiose additions such as countless dragons to slay, supplement a rich world filled with seemingly countless optional narratives to explore. We love Skyrim because it's one of those rare games that really lets players choose their own adventure. Thanks to its size and scope, Skyrim is still one of our favorite games to tell stories about (preferably around a fire over some mead and legs of mutton.)
All of this praise comes with a few caveats, however. Skyrim might have made it up higher on our list, had it not been for the different bugs, crashes, and some platform-specific performance issues that gamers experienced (and in some cases, are still experiencing) since the game launched. To put it another way: If you're a PlayStation 3-only gamer, we completely understand if you don't think Skyrim is one of the best games of 2012.
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The Shacknews 2011 Game of the Year awards are based on a weighted scoring system between all staff writers and editors [here's how it works!]. Last week we revealed our "Honorable Mentions," which include the titles that did not quite make our overall 'Top Five Games of the Year.' This week we reveal that Top Five list, with our Overall Game of the Year award being announced on January 20.


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"I would like to congratulate this union's leadership for their work and professionalism at the bargaining table," said Canadian Pacific President and CEO E. Hunter Harrison.
Bill Brehl, president of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, Maintenance of Way Employees Division said, "The Teamsters' bargaining committee unanimously endorses this tentative agreement and is recommending the membership ratify it."
The Memorandum of Settlement will be sent to the union membership next week, with results from the vote expected in mid-January 2013.


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That's in response to a New Yorker article quoting something Cruz said in a speech 3 years ago. (What Cruz said back then, at an Americans for Prosperity conference, was that when he was at Harvard Law School "There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.")
The Cruz spokesperson called it "curious that the New Yorker would dredge up a three-year-old speech and call it 'news.'"
Curious... there's a noncommittal word. I don't see anything wrong with digging stuff out of old Cruz speeches. He's a new character on the national stage, so it's not like old territory is being reworked. It was an inflammatory statement, and he needs to stand by it (and back it up), defend it as hyperbole, or concede he was wrong.
The New Yorker writer, Jane Mayer, was following up after Barbara Boxer had compared Cruz to Joseph McCarthy. That was pretty inflammatory too (as I said at the time). What Boxer said made it a valid line of inquiry for Mayer and not odd at all. What you say to your base will be heard by the outsiders too, and any politician needs to be prepared for that. Republicans hoping for a new star better not forget how badly Mitt Romney faltered when he had to deal with the 47% remark he'd used on the insider group. This Cruz quote is the same kind of thing. Don't minimize it.
Mayer talked to Charles Fried, the Harvard lawprof who was probably the one Republican referred to by Cruz. Fried says:
"I have not taken a poll, but I would be surprised if there were any members of the faculty who 'believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government".... Fried acknowledged that "there were a certain number (twelve seems to me too high) who were quite radical, but I doubt if any had allegiance or sympathy with anything called 'the Communists,' who at that time (unlike the thirties and forties) were in quite bad odor among radical intellectuals." He pointed out that by the nineteen-nineties, Communist states were widely regarded as tyrannical. From Fried's perspective, the radicals on the faculty were "a pain in the neck." But he says that Cruz's assertion that they were Communists "misunderstands what they were about."Clearly, it was rhetoric to call the Critical Legal Studies professors "Marxists" who believed in "Communist" revolution, and Cruz chose to do that at a particular place and time. Cruz is accountable for that. It's a shibboleth of the right to rely on the words "Marxist" and "Communist." It wasn't the way the lefty lawprofs of the time talked about themselves. I have a vivid memory of saying to a CLS lawprof — a very good friend, during a casual conversation — "I'd like to know about the connection between CLS and Marxism." She snapped: "There's none." I got the message: You sound right wing. It was understood that to sound right wing was to become toxic.
Here's a useful passage from the classic 1983 CLS book by Harvard lawprof Duncan Kennedy, "Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System":
Left-liberal rights analysis submerges the student in legal rhetoric, but, because of its inherent vacuousness, can provide no more than an emotional stance against the legal order. The instrumental Marxist approach is highly critical of law, but also dismissive. It is no help in coming to grips with the particularity of rules and rhetoric, because it treats them, a priori, as mere window dressing. In each case, left theory fails left students because it offers no base for the mastery of ambivalence. What is needed is to think about law in a way that will allow one to enter into it, to criticize without utterly rejecting it, and to manipulate it without self-abandonment to their system of thinking and doing.


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Following yesterday's announcement of a Battlefield 4 beta code being included with the Medal of Honor Warfighter LE, fans had lingering questions. DICE has taken to answering a few of them, including the fate of Battlefield 3 and requested features they're trying to slip into B4.
An official thread on Reddit (via OXM) shares the details. The team promises continued support for Battlefield 3, and that DICE has a separate team working on Battlefield 4. The beta is set to hit in fall 2013, with the game (obviously) coming sometime shortly afterwards. "Starting work on Battlefield 4 does not mean that we will be abandoning Battlefield 3," the post states. If you want to get in on the beta, you'll have other opportunities besides Warfighter. But that game is the only way to "guarantee" beta access right now.
As for Battlefield 4 itself, DICE has noted a few common fan requests and is trying to implement them in Battlefield 4. These include a better VOIP solution, battle record, spectator mode, and better eSports support. The company also addresses concerns about the short time frame for this sequel. "I truly believe that we're in one of the best positions to be creating our next title," the post states. "Frostbite 2 has matured, we've been gathering fan feedback like crazy, Battlefield 3 continues to expand with features which we can learn from, and we've got more data about how people play than ever."


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GLPI (Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique) is an information resource manager with an administration interface. You can use it to build a database with an inventory for your company (computers, software, printers, etc.). It has functions to make the daily life of the administrators easier, including a job/request tracking system with mail notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network topology. It provides a precise inventory of all the technical resources (all their characteristics are stored in a database) and management and history of the maintenance actions and the bound procedures. It is dynamic and is directly connected to the users, who can post requests to the technicians.
synctool is a cluster administration tool that keeps configuration files synchronized across all nodes in a cluster. Nodes may be part of a logical group or class, in which case they need a particular subset of configuration files. synctool can restart daemons when needed, if their relevant configuration files have been changed. synctool can also be used to do patch management or other system administrative tasks.
Sagan is a high performance, real-time log analysis and correlation engine. It uses a multi-threaded architecture to deliver high performance log and event analysis. Its structure and rules are similar to those of the Sourcefire "Snort" IDS/IPS engine. This provides compatibility with rule management software (Oinkmaster, PulledPork, etc.) and allows Sagan to correlate log events with your Snort IDS/IPS system. Sagan can also write to Snort IDS/IPS databases via Unified2/Barnyard2. Sagan is compatible with all Snort "consoles" including Snorby, Sguil, BASE, and the Prelude IDS framework. It supports many different output formats, log normalization (via liblognorm), script execution on event detection, automatic firewall support via "Snortsam", GeoIP detection/alerting, multi-line log support, time sensitive alerting, and much more.
Impro-Visor is a music notation and playback tool for helping jazz musicians learn to improvise. It features a notation GUI, automated playback of chords and rhythm using MIDI, and improvisation advice provided in a variety of ways, including being able to improvise jazz itself. Data are stored as open-format text files. MIDI and MusicXML export are also available.
GoAccess is a real-time Web log analyzer and interactive viewer for almost every Web server. It runs in a terminal and provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require log monitoring and visual reports on the fly. GoAccess can monitor unique visitors, browsers, spiders, OS, hosts and IP geolocation, keyphrases, referring sites, status codes, etc. It has support for IPv6 and it parses nearly any Web log format.


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XINS is a technology used to define, create, and invoke remote APIs. XINS is specification-oriented. When API specifications are written (in XML), XINS will transform them to HTML-based documentation and Java code for both the client-side and the server-side. The communication is based on HTTP. XINS competes with the complex SOAP technology. Main design goals include simplicity, scalability, and testability. XINS is not only a specification technology, but also an application development framework. It offers transaction logging, unique log documentation, and active code generation.
Jitterbit is an integration tool for designing, configuring, testing, and deploying integration solutions. It supports many document types and most standards-based protocols, including XML, Web Services, popular databases, text files, FTP, HTTP, and others. The integration server runs on both Windows and Linux and is configured using a Java-based user interface that is designed to make integration quick, easy, and intuitive to complete. With the UI, users can define their integration operations from start to finish: adding source and target systems, using drag-and-drop mapping to transform data, setting schedules, creating success/failure events, and tracking all of their deployed integration operations.
Id3 Tag Correction and Downloading is a PHP class that can be used to correct tags of MP3 tags of music with records stored in a MySQL database. It scans a MySQL database table with information about music albums to see which albums do not yet have the associated ID3 tags. The class accesses the Web services APIs of sites like audioscrobbler.com, last.fm, lyricwiki.org, and lyricsfly.com to correct the pending music tags and get other details about the stored music.
Orchestra is a complete solution to handle long-running, service oriented processes. It provides out of the box orchestration functionality to handle complex business processes. Its objectives are improvement and control of processes, services interaction, and improving the productivity and agility of the company. It provides a powerful engine to execute processes and a set of graphical tools to design, deploy, administrate, and monitor them. It is based on leading standards of the BPM market: BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) for Process design and WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Process execution.
LastFmLib.net lets you access all Web services provided by Last.fm. This also includes an implementation of the Audioscrobbler 1.2.1 submissions protocol and radio api. Also, LastFmLib.net provides a set of useful classes, e.g for caching requests and pictures and for accessing simple request easily via the LastFmClient class. The library should be fully Mono compatible (the test with MoMa was positive).


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Classifieds Script allows you to start your own Web site to provide classified ads. Your classifieds site can have up to six different themes. It supports making money from listing fees and Google AdSense and banners. It has an optional WYSIWYG editor for ad posting. It provides an easy way to insert Google Analytics code or any other code for tracking. It supports using Google Maps to provide a map on site for each listing. Its notifier feature makes an HTML or plain text message appear on the home page after defined period of time. You can use this option for an opt-in form or any other message for visitors. RSS feeds can be provided for listings. The number of views for each listing is counted, as is the number of views from the category and search page.
Window Shopper for Firefox allows you to instantly compare prices on any product on 3,200 U.S. online stores, including Amazon and eBay. If it finds a deal, it will show it. Otherwise, it will show you similar products you may also be interested in. After you install Window Shopper, you will see a "See Similar" icon appear next to product images. Just click on the icon and the Window Shopper window will appear, presenting deals and visually similar products from hundreds of online stores.
Livetube player, originally created for Livetube.fm DJs, allows you to make bulk queries to YouTube and Last.fm, share videos to Facebook/Twitter, access Youtube playlists, and watch videos in fullscreen. If you feel ready, you can also become a DJ yourself with your own live event.
Remote Utilities (RUT) is remote control software for secure access to computers, servers, and laptops over a LAN or over the Internet. You can view the remote PC screen and control its mouse and keyboard as if you were sitting right in front of the PC. With RUT, you can provide technical support to your customers, help your friends and family members to perform various tasks on the PC, and administer the local network in your organization.
Shiny Menu Icons is a unique icon library covering an extremely wide range of topics, from standard file operations, navigation, and document processing to user management, online communications, security, and a lot more. Each of the 1014 icons in this collection is available in 4 popular file formats (PNG, GIF, BMP, and ICO) and resolutions (48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, and 16x16). The set can be efficiently used in the interface of any modern software.
Anychart Flash Gantt is a customizable component for displaying Gantt charts. Create groups, connectors, and milestones with a simple XML configuration. Driven by an XML interface, it has no installation and is easily implemented. There is no need for Active-X on the server; graphics are rendered on the client. All scripting languages (ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, etc.) are supported.
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Naruto-Arena forces you to select 3 characters when you start a new game. This page gives you an overview of all characters available in the Naruto-Arena game. Not only can you view each character's skills, you can also discuss the characters by posting comments.
Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S)
Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) is one of the previous Seven Swordsmen of the Mist and a particularly cruel individual.Requirement to unlock: Mission: A Psychotic Swordsman
Explosive Tag Scroll
Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) uses Explosive Tag Scroll and gains 10 destructible defense permanently. Silent Explosion will deal 200% damage for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Instant, Unique
Silent Explosion
Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) uses Silent Explosion on one enemy dealing 20 piercing damage. Non affliction ranged skills will deal an additional 5 damage to the target of this skill for 1 turn.
Cooldown: None
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Melee, Instant, Unique
Using Shibuki Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) will gain 50% damage reduction for 1 turn. During this skill any enemy that uses a new skill on Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) will be dealt 10 affliction damage* permanently. This effect stacks. This skill is invisible.
Cooldown: 2
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Melee, Instant, Unique, Affliction*
Shibuki Defense
This skill makes Edo Tensei Jinpachi (S) invulnerable for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 4
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Instant
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Myronowicz previously held positions in corporate real estate and financial services. His appointment "adds significant depth to the company's leadership structure" noted company Vice President of Operations Thomas Broderick.
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It used to be in class-conscious Britain that there were three social classes; working (or lower) class, middle class and upper class. People often refined that by describing themselves as lower middle class or whatever.
Recently the BBC has been running a story which says that the old three classes are outdated and it suggests seven new ones, namely:
- Elite
- Established middle class
- Technical middle class
- New affluent workers
- Traditional working class
- Emergent service workers
- Precariat, or precarious proletariat
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QuickBuild is a continuous integration and release management server, acting as the central place to produce, test, deploy, and release software builds. It is designed to guard the health of your project by preventing broken builds, and to improve your build delivery process by pushing builds through a customizable pipeline (for example, dev->QA->release) with related information connected such as resolved issues and relevant SCM changes.
mk-configure is a lightweight replacement for GNU autotools written in and for bmake (a portable version of NetBSD make). The main goal is to have only one top-level tool instead of aclocal+automake+autoconf+autoheader. Other goals are clean design, simplicity, and "no code generation".
bmake is a program designed to simplify the maintenance of other programs. Its input is a list of specifications as to the files upon which programs and other files depend. If no -f makefile makefile option is given, bmake will try to open 'makefile' and then 'Makefile' in order to find the specifications.
EBuild is a software project build, dependency management, and reporting technology. The aim is to be able to tackle any build problem in a structured, declarative, and elegant way. It is written in Java, but can be used to build all manner of projects and is extensible via a plugin interface. It is best compared to something like Maven (and in some respects Ivy). It aims to overcome certain design flaws and the resultant unnecessary complexity. The EBuild build model is general, but plugins need to be written in a JVM compatible language. Existing plugins all deal with the Java ecosystem, so EBuild is most suitable for Java and mixed technology software projects.
crumb is an experimental build-automation program to provide functionality similar to "make" but with a much better approach, where dependencies for all invocations are automatically detected, by using shared-library level hooks. The spawned processes are also paused if a missing dependency needs to be generated. Oddly, with parallelism, this means that the linker might run before the compiler, but it will get paused until the compiler is done generating the input that it needs. Another purpose of crumb is to provide users with absolutely minimal build description files. This means that the build description files need to be smaller than an equivalent shell script containing the commands that would have built the project directly.
Fubsy is a tool for efficiently building software. In concrete terms, it lets you conditionally (re)build targets from sources based on which sources have changed since the last build. Typically, targets and sources are all files in a directory tree. In theory, they can be any resource on a computer. More abstractly, Fubsy is an engine for conditional execution of actions based on the dependencies between related resources.
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NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council passed tighter restrictions on roadside produce stands and other peddlers Monday night, but not without opposition.
NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council passed tighter restrictions on roadside produce stands and other peddlers Monday night, but not without opposition.
"For years (Northport) has been saying they want more business, but they don't want my business," said Joe Powell, owner of Bayou Joe's, a roadside seafood stand. Powell buys fresh seafood from Gulf-based seafood suppliers and sells it on Thursdays near Gordo, Fridays in Northport and Saturdays in Tuscaloosa. He has licenses from the state, county and both cities and pays sales tax. But, under the new ordinance passed Monday, Powell would only be able to sell a total of 30 days a year — split into 15-day increments. He said that's not worth the trouble to sell in Northport.
"I have not heard a word about this from the city," Powell said. "I only knew about it because I saw it in the paper."
According to the city's new restrictions, peddlers can get only two licenses per calendar year of 15 days each and would be able to conduct business only in a Northport church, school-sponsored event or events such as the Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Dickens Downtown, air shows or school festivals. They will also be allowed for special events in an enclosed permanent structure with electricity and permanent restroom facilities.
For fruit and vegetable stands, the license would be good for 180 days and could be obtained only once a year. The produce stand also must be located on a site that has permanent electrical service and permanent restroom facilities. No temporary storage facility, portable toilets, tent or temporary cover would be allowed, according to the ordinance.
The fruit and vegetable stand on U.S. Highway 82 owned by William Fields will likely shut down Aug. 3 when his business license ends, unless he finds another place to operate. For eight years he has sold produce from his stand under a metal garage-type structure with a portable toilet behind the building. But he will now have to move or cease operations. Fields was not at Monday's meeting, but customer Karen Burrnell said he didn't feel the city was being fair to Fields.
"It seems that we should be supporting our citizens and not making it harder for someone who is just trying to get by," Burnnell said at the meeting. "I just wanted to voice my support for this man."
The changes in peddlers' licenses are a result of multiple complaints in recent years about peddlers who set up on the side of the road selling a variety of wares, not just produce, Mayor Bobby Herndon said.
According to the Northport licensing department, there are now three businesses operating with peddler's licenses in the city.
"We've had people popping up on the side of the road, selling different things from rugs to purses to bonsai plants," Herndon said.
The complaints — about a dozen — have primarily been about the appearances and conditions of peddlers doing business in the city, including parking lot vendors, said City Administrator Scott Collins. That includes a complaint against Fields, although Collins said the changes in peddlers licenses has nothing to do with his produce stand.
The new peddler licensing requirements were passed by the council on a 3-1 vote, with Councilmen Jay Logan, Bart Harper and Rodney Sullivan voting yes and Councilwoman Judy Hayes voting no. Councilman Steve Acker was absent.
"What we are trying to do with the city is to address concerns about tents going up for peddlers," said Harper, adding that he sold watermelon and peas on the side of the road as a kid and has also bought seafood from Powell. "I think it's a good ordinance."
Hayes said she would do everything she could to help the affected businesses relocate, if that is their desire. The ordinance takes effect immediately, although existing peddlers can operate until their existing business license expires.
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DART has built more than 40 miles of track in the past three years, greatly enhancing transit accessibility throughout the Dallas area.
Downtown Rowlett Station marks the first expansion of the Blue Line since it reached Garland in November 2002. The 4.5-mile, $360 million segment completes the build-out of the northeast corridor and increases access to and from the largely residential community.
In late 2016, DART will lengthen the Blue Line south from Ledbetter Station to connect to the University of North Texas at Dallas.
The $1.3 billion Orange Line, the first section of which opened in July with three stations, grew nearly four miles with new stops at North Lake College and Belt Line Road, on DFW Airport property.
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Hickory Nut Gorge, probably best known for Chimney Rock, Lake Lure and the numerous dramatic views it offers, is becoming more accessible to public recreation.
From the world-class climbing on the rock faces of Rumbling Bald to trails that link sections of the gorge, the area that includes Chimney Rock State Park is gaining expanded opportunities for hiking, biking and climbing.
"Chimney Rock State Park is more than just a park — it is part of a community of caring individuals who, through the ages, have shared the inspiration of this beautiful place with people throughout the world," says James Ledgerwood, Chimney Rock State Park superintendent.
"The vision of this community continues to grow, focusing on conserving the natural beauty of the gorge and providing recreational opportunities in a safe and healthy environment," he says.
Volunteer groups such as the Friends of Chimney Rock State Park have become involved in trail building and other activities in the 5,700-acre park.
The group, formed in 2012, has been busy with hands-on trail building as well as fundraising for educational programs and increasing public access at the park.
"There is a misconception that people have that Chimney Rock State Park is just the chimney," says Adam Tripp, president of the park's Friends group.
A trail day in December at the Rumbling Bald area of the park completed work on rerouting the main trail on the east side of the famous rock face.
Through the combined efforts of 46 volunteers working that day, a new set of stone stairs also was built at the end of the east-side trail, where spur trails lead to the boulders, the cliff line and adjacent trails.
A loop will eventually link the two sides of Rumbling Bald — which was acquired by Chimney Rock State Park last year — but until then, a rerouting of the west-side rail needs to be undertaken.
"Along the way, it will provide access to the boulder fields and cliff faces," says Tripp, who is a hiker and rock climber.
The west-side trail is "a little more wild," according to Tripp.
"If you're looking for something off the beaten path, it's a good place to go," he says.
During the December trail-building event, the Friends of Chimney Rock State Park made contact with groups such as the Carolina Climbers Coalition, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, Brushy Mountain Trail Club and the Carolina Mountain Club.
The coordinated efforts of these groups are also working on projects beyond trail maintenance.
"They continue to volunteer with natural resource projects like the boulder rehabilitation projects," Ledgerwood says. "These projects involve shoring up crash sites around boulders and preventing further erosion from occurring.
"Together, we are working to protect and provide access to both sides of Hickory Nut Gorge," he adds.
Fundraising efforts are underway to expand the parking area at Rumbling Bald, which experiences overcrowding in colder months, when temperatures are more tolerable on the sunny, south-facing slope.
Finding good hiking trails on public land got a lot easier with the July 2012 release of "A Hiker's Guide to the Hickory Nut Gorge," co-authored by Ryan Lubbers and Nate Ballinger.
The guide outlines public areas open to hiking and biking across the gorge, and includes descriptions, maps and photographs of more than 35 trails around Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, Bat Cave and Gerton.
It is available widely through outdoor stores in the area and online at www.hickorynutgorgetrailguide.com.
Increased recreation
Land conservation has been an important piece in connecting areas in the gorge and attracting people to the land for recreational activities.
Peter Barr, trails and outreach coordinator for Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy in Hendersonville, says it is one of his organization's primary goals to link up Hickory Nut Gorge through publicly accessible trails.
"I'm really excited about it; it's the focus of a lot of our work," he says. "It's a way to make land conservation relevant to everyone."
Barr writes a monthly column for the Times-News about the work CMLC is doing to conserve land and create new trails.
The ultimate aim is to eventually connect Chimney Rock State Park to Bearwallow Mountain, Florence Nature Preserve, Weed Patch Mountain, Rumbling Bald and other areas in the gorge.
Barr says the acts of conserving land and getting people onto those landscapes go hand-in-hand, in addition to the vital goal of conserving natural resources.
For example, CMLC has joined forces with Henderson County Parks and Recreation to create a new trailhead at Florence Nature Preserve.
The trailhead, on Highway 74A in Gerton, has parking and visible road frontage to access the five miles of hiking trails in the 600-acre preserve, which was donated to CMLC in 1996.
Volunteers from the Carolina Mountain Club have constructed a half-mile trail that links the new trailhead tract to the preserve's larger trail network.
Barr has written about the initial impact of the purchase of the World's Edge tract on the formation of Chimney Rock State Park.
In addition to enhancing existing trails, Tripp believes the park has potential for new trail formation.
"There is an immense amount of terrain," he says. "We would like to add trails; we could connect with World's Edge."
Lake Lure steps in
The town of Lake Lure is also getting on board to improve recreational opportunities in the area.
Town Manager Chris Braund is leading an effort to implement a mountain biking trail network at the town's parcel at Weed Patch Mountain and at CMLC's Weed Patch Mountain tract.
In what will be known as Buffalo Creek Park once it is complete, the trails will pass through about 200 acres across the eastern end of Weed Patch.
"Our vision is to establish multi-use hiking and biking trails and ultimately extend those trails across CMLC property on the northern reaches, above the bald," Braund says.
He adds that work will start in the next couple of months, as grant applications are processed.
"We don't have suitable mountain biking trails in this area," Braund says. "We're getting a lot of interest from the Charlotte area."
Braund is also working with CMLC to improve the Summits Trail around Lake Lure.
The long-term vision for the complete trail system includes circumnavigating the summits of the gorge.
In all, it will probably be about 30 to 40 miles long, accessed through both public and private lands.
Connector trails would link to CMLC's work at the other end of the gorge.
According to Braund, the trail will be ideal for both section and thru-hikes, with camping in backcountry spots along the way.
The town also anticipates increased use of bed-and-breakfast inns around Lake Lure by visitors that the trail would attract.
"Over time, we'd have a while new destination in the Hickory Nut Gorge and Lake Lure area," Braund says.
New trail access expected to enhance tourism in Hickory Nut Gorge
Hickory Nut Gorge, probably best known for Chimney Rock, Lake Lure and the numerous dramatic views it offers, is becoming more accessible to public recreation.


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text: PORTLAND, Ore. ( TheStreet) --The 2013 Major League Baseball season has begun and fans' wallets are all the lighter for it. Fortunately, smartphones and tablets can help prevent some of the loss. While we've tried to present evidence baseball is the cheapest professional sport in the land, teams keep hiking beer prices and ticket costs seemingly just to prove us wrong. So why aren't fans running for their high-definition television shelters? Basically because baseball is one of the few sports that's figured out how to enhance the live game experience through technology instead of using that technology to make live games obsolete. Also, do you see how many games there are on the schedule? Even if games against a rival are sold out and going for exorbitant sums on the secondary market, there's always that midsummer stretch of games against cellar-dwellers or late-season games when either the playoff picture is set or all hope is lost. Baseball's free market takes, but every so often it gives as demand wanes. If you want to see just how much advances in mobile technology have developed around the game, just cruise through the dozens of baseball-related apps. Amid baseball's tech exoskeleton of stats and streaming video, we found the five most essential baseball apps of the 2013 season. These apps all come up big around game time, even if your team's fortunes are looking increasingly small:


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The grade separation project will eliminate vehicle delays and deadly collisions at four crossings and reducing emissions from idling cars and trucks forced to wait for passing freight trains.
Street bridges spanning the San Gabriel Trench will be constructed at Ramona Street, Mission Road, Del Mar Avenue and San Gabriel Boulevard, which are used daily by nearly 90,000 motorists. Once completed in 2017, cars, trucks and emergency vehicles will no longer need to wait for an average of 18 trains per day, projected to increase to 61 trains per day by 2025 if a second track is installed as planned by Union Pacific.
"This is a proud and great day for the City of San Gabriel and the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority," said San Gabriel Councilman David Gutierrez, chairman of the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority (ACE). "The San Gabriel Trench project will eliminate traffic delays due to passing trains, deadly crossing collisions, locomotive horn blasts, help improve our region's air quality and create 8,900 jobs over five years of construction."
The $336.5 million grade separation project will eliminate a collision hazard, silence train horns and crossing alarms and the trench walls will shield nearby homes, churches, schools and businesses from train noise. The project is an investment in the Alameda Corridor-East Trade Corridor, which accommodates about 60 percent of the port containers moved from the nation's busiest container ports in the San Pedro Bay to the rest of the country via the region's rail network.
"In addition to reducing congestion and improving air quality, this vital project is an important link in our regional strategy of moving cargo containers by train rather than in diesel trucks on our freeways," said Los Angeles County Supervisor, ACE Board Member and current MTA Board Chairman Michael Antonovich.


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Green Light Ink screenprinting company on Locust Street in the Historic 7th Avenue Depot District is hosting this month's Support Local Business Networking
event from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.
There is no fee to attend the professional networking lunch; however, guests are asked to support the event by purchasing the buffet lunch catered by Champa Sushi.
The inclusive lunch costs $8; Americas Satellites is offering to pay $3 of the lunch fee if guests bring a copy of their TV and/ or Internet bill for them to analyze for the purpose of saving money.
RelyLocal Hendersonville sponsors monthly networking events for member businesses each month.
Events rotate to provide guests and business professionals a venue for networking that is convenient to their place of business. For details, contact Judy at 828-691-5711 or http;//RelyLocalHendersonville.com
The Van Winkle Law Firm officials said
Lauren Bradley, former executive director with the city of Asheville, will assume the duties of chief operating officer overseeing three offices in Asheville, Hendersonville and Charlotte.
Bradley brings more than 15 years of executive, financial and strategic planning experience to the firm. In her previous role, she was responsible for managing an operating budget of more than $140 million, coordinating business development projects and implementing best practices in strategic engagement and partnerships.
Bradley is a graduate of Georgia State University and received her master's in project management from Western Carolina University. She lives in Asheville with her husband, Shane, and their 4-year-old son, Patrick.
For more information, visit www.vwlawfirm.com.
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Green Light Ink screenprinting company on Locust Street in the Historic 7th Avenue Depot District is hosting this month's Support Local Business Networking