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Cody ChesnuTT? is an American musician from Atlanta, Georgia, whose music blends elements of rock, funk, soul, hip-hop, and blues. His music can arguably be classified as neo-soul. ChesnuTT? had a brief stint with Hollywood Records in which he was later booted from the label. He released a double LP in 2002 entitled The Headphone Masterpiece, which was recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder in his bedroom recording studio, which he calls "The Sonic Promiseland".
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54368 | How to convert FLAC audio files to MP3 with Foobar2000
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FLAC audio files sound great, but not every app or device supports FLAC and they take up a lot of storage space. Sometimes, you just want the convenience of MP3s, which are supported by many more apps and devices, including mobile phones and tablets. Mobile devices are often short on space, so even if they support FLAC, using MP3 files make a lot of sense.
If you already have FLAC files and would like MP3 versions, you can just convert them to MP3 with Foobar2000. It's a lot easier and faster than reripping all your CDs. Here's how to convert your FLAC files to MP3 with Foobar2000:
Step 1: Foobar2000 doesn't come with an MP3 encoder, so you'll need to download one to use with it. Go to the LAME MP3 site to download the LAME binaries to your computer. After you've downloaded it, extract it to a folder on your PC. We'll point Foobar2000 to that folder later.
Step 2: Select the music you want to convert in Foobar2000, then right-click on the selection(s). In the context menu, go to Convert, then choose the three dots to bring up the Converter Setup.
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Step 3: Under "Current settings," click on the link to Output format, then choose MP3 (LAME) from the list of available outputs. Next, click on the Edit button to set your preferred MP3 quality level. If you also want to set a destination folder, click on the Destination link under "Current settings."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54402 | #1 Edited by SithLantern93 (2431 posts) - - Show Bio
My note: Due to my displeasure with Crispus Allen being the host of Spectre and the constant PIS and CIS that the Spectre usually suffer from, I decided to write a fan fiction about my favorite DC character of all time and give the justice that it truly deserves. As you can easily see from the title, this is the very first arc of a story that I am planning to expand as much as I could. Since this the very first arc, you may encounter some mistakes, whether in terms of grammar or consistency (oh the irony).
The Spectre: ''Farewells
and Revelations’’
It was 12 am in Gotham City but time didn't matter to Gotham when it came to crime and filth. The city was probably the most dangerous city in the world. Ranging from killer clowns to monsters that are capable of morphing to every shape to your average ''Pedobears'' and murderers, it could be easily said that the city needed cleansing. But not the type of ''psychological therapy'' cleansing that the corrupt governments initiated to free their criminal benefactors, it needed an old school ''Old Testament style'' cleansing. Despite the methods of the famous caped crusader Batman and his comrades, they lacked the one simple thing that would accomplish the cleansing, killing. Batman, although terrified his enemies and more than occasionally gave them some of the worst beatings a human being could ever receive, never killed. The walls of his moral code were too sturdy to be torn down. However there was a being who possessed no such walls and by possessing no such moral boundaries, the being, with virtually every power you could imagine, ''cleansed'' it's enemies with such dark methods that are capable of making even the most cruel and sadistic beings in the universe feel disgust and terror. From animating dolls and toys to devour pedophiles to create zombie versions of a slave trader's victims to devour him to transmuting drug dealers into its fingers and injecting fire through a syringe to incinerate them, the Spectre was truly a horrifying being to encounter. But was inflicting vengeance the only purpose and ability of the Spectre? Of course not. When the fallen hero Hal Jordan became the host, he was able to take a glimpse of what truly was the Spectre, an entity that was literally a piece of God Almighty itself. Unfortunately, before Jordan could fully master the power of the Spectre, he was split from the entity was resurrected and became a Green Lantern again. And with the manipulations of Eclipso and destroying the magic itself, Spectre was punished by being forced by his master to inhibit the body of a dead cop named Crispus Allen. The Spectre never wanted Cripus as its host. Not that it was his punishment, but because Cripus, much like Corrigan and unlike Jordan, was limited in imagination and willpower, two vital elements that could make Spectre shed his old vengeance skin and tap into the power of the Logoz more efficiently. That is why Spectre held a grudge against its host and refused to aid him by allowing itself to be defeated by Nekron, Mandrakk and Eclipso. Not to mention forcing Cripus to take his son’s life when he shot Crispus’s killer. But something strange but could be considered beneficial for Spectre to seperate from Spectre happened. When Crispus’s former partner was able to cleanse the infamous Spear of Destiny and resurrect Crispus’s son, whom the Spectre killed, the anger in Crispus to function as the Spectre no longer there. It was as if the doors that kept the Spectre locked were open again.
Crispus: There is something I want to get out of my chest Spectre.
Spectre:You don’t have to act timid Allen. I know what you want to say. After all, I am a
part of you now.
Crispus: (In a tone that sounds like child who is ready to receive punishment from a teacher)
I want to leave you Spectre. I want to be a living being again and embrace my family.
Spectre: I am afraid I can’t do that. Despite the potential nigh omnipotence the Logoz offers,
my will is not the one that decides how can the power be used. If you were both a willing host
and also possessed the incredible will and imagination that my previous host Hal Jordan, you
wouldn’t have asked such a question.
Crispus: So that was why my encounters with the fallen Monitor Mandrakk, Nekron and
Eclipso with the power of Starheart resolved with failure. Right?
Spectre: (In a tone that resembles a teacher) Yes. Despite the warnings of our master, the
Presence, you chose to ignore its warnings and rushed yourself at the conflict without
knowing the consequences. The Presence decreed that Mandrakk was the ultimate test of
Superman and the Monitors. Nekron was the test of all the members of the Emotional
Spectrum corps and the White Life Entity, that is also like me, an aspect of the Presence.
You don’t remember but whenever Eclipso threatened to enslave the universe, my former
hosts rushed to stop him. I am of course excluding that one cursed and atrocious event when
I was fooled by it to destroy all the magic. So given my constant involvement with Galid (The
Eclipso’s true name), the Presence decreed Alan Scott and the rest of the earthly heroes to
deal with him.
Crispus: So that means that we were not powerless but rather forbidden to stop them. I guess
the same thing could be said about my inability to stop Libra and Cain. But those events do
not explain why I was forced to deal vengeance upon my son? I know that he killed but like
you Spectre, he was trying to avenge the murdered! How could you do such a thing you pale
basterd?! How?!
Spectre: Do not try to compare me with a mortal. Besides have I been talking to the walls?
Don’t you remember what I said about who decides and allows me to act? Besides your son is
alive again so that does not matter--
Crispus: Shut up! It still does matter to me! I don’t care if he is alive and well again, you still
murdered him and don’t play ‘’It was whatever cosmic entity made me do it’’ card! God
wouldn’t allow such a thing.
Spectre: (In a tone that could be considered snobbish): Read the Old Testament mortal.
Crispus: That does not prove that it is the word of God itself. Not to mention my the death of
my son! Besides, I sense something about the true reason behind the death of my son.
I believe you are hiding something!
Spectre: (Angry as if he was to punish Crispus): I am getting tired of your of suspicion
Crispus Allen! You cannot shout at me! I am neither your wife nor one of your sons! I am---
As Spectre appeared to go nearly unbound again, a blazing light that could light up the whole dark sky descended. At first Crispus tried to understand what it was but then he remembered the entity that was embedded with light. It was his fellow comrade the Radiant, an entity and aspect of the Presence much like the Spectre but unlike Spectre, Radiant seemed only as an agent of mercy. But the look on Radiant’s face was not nothing short of anger.
Radiant:The Presence is not pleased at the fact how you hide the truth behind the death of
Crispus Allen’s son.
Crispus: Ha I knew there was something that you were hiding from me Spectre! Tell me, did
you kill my son just because you hated the fact that you were forced to inhibit me?
Radiant: Tell him the truth Aztar.
Spectre: What was done is done. It does not matter anymore given the fact of his resurrection
at the hands of mortal Montoya and the Spear of Destiny. But I am going to be honest with
you Crispus anyway. Yes, it was my will that allowed me to take the life of your son. Despite
not approving the idea of vengeance and justice dealt by the mortals, I don’t punish those who
do. Years ago when Corrigan was the host, a similar situation occurred. There was a killer
called ‘’The Reaver’’, a killer who hunted down and brutally murdered women with AIDS
after getting the disease from a woman. One of the victims of the killer was my former host
James Corrigan’s love interest and while I was fighting inside the soul of the killer and was
about the deliver vengeance, a cop named Nate Kane, who also was infuriated with the
woman Corrigan loved, shot ‘’The Reaver’’.
Crispus: Just explain why the hell did you kill my son you f&@king bastard!
Spectre: Enough is enough Crispus Allen! I have had it you!
As things were about to take a very unpleasant situation, the Radiant stepped in and blasted Spectre with a silver-blue colored energy blast. The Spectre was phased a little in terms of psychical damage but he was worried about the Radiant. He hadn’t seen her since they confronted Mandrakk on Limbo. Even at that day, the Radiant was angry at Spectre not Mandrakk. The Radiant was trying to tell Spectre that it was God’s will that Superman and Nix Uotan was to stop Mandrakk. She could still remember how they felt instantaneously powerless when they confronted Mandrakk. No it was not Mandrakk that made them powerless, it was the Presence itself. As soon as Spectre charged at him, the Logoz abandoned Aztar and the Spectre fell as if he was a handicapped child without crutches. With both amazement and joy in his eerie red eyes, Mandrakk immediately started to drain what was left of Spectre. He was screaming as if he had never screamed before. Radiant, truly horrified by that sight, did know what to do. If she tried to save Spectre, she would suffer the same fate for disobeying God. Being a nun before death, Clarice, the host of Radiant, never thought how disobeying God would be? Would it be a horrifying experience? Or God would forgive her? As Mandrakk was finished with draining Spectre, he took a glimpse at the innocent beauty that was Radiant herself with his ungodly and nightmarish Sith Lord like eyes. Mandrakk started to approach her but he was slow, slow as an anaconda who which seen a young capybara. Surprisingly enough, he was smiling at Radiant.
Mandrakk: I see that you are not as foolish as the one with the green cloak. Tell me little
girl, what did you hope to accomplish by coming here? Who sent you here? Tell me now and
I will make sure that you will receive a much better demise than the one with the green cape.
Radiant: We were sent by God.
Mandrakk: Be more specific little girl. There are countless gods out there in the multiverse
and none of the is either powerful or brave enough to challenge me. The only god like entity
I know that can defeat me is the Over Monitor itself.
Radiant: My God is the supreme one and he has many aspects and faces. This ‘’Over
Monitor’’ you call could be one of them. But this argument has no point in this matter.
What matters is that, I was sent by the Supreme Being to delay and weaken you.
Mandrakk: I am afraid that is out of the question. Look at what remains of your green caped
comrade who is drained now and meaningless to me. You can still save yourself by
allowing me to just blast you with the power of the multiverse to give you a quick death.
Radiant: You don’t know what truly my master intended and Spectre tried to do. My master,
The Presence itself charged us with delaying and weakening you for the arrival of Superman.
Not killing you. Since Spectre or the host that is inside him disobeyed, my master stripped
him of his power. That was why you were able to drain him.
Mandrakk: You have no idea about the power I possess little girl! The power of the
Multiverse and space and time flows through me! Let me show you a facsimile of my
As Mandrakk blasted Radiant with the power of fifty two universes, Radiant began to scream like the Spectre. But her scream was more akin to a banshee than the ghoulish one of the Spectre. Radiant was beginning to feel her power was fading away from her but she had to resist. But getting drained by Mandrakk was not the biggest problem, the biggest problem was how she was going to halt or weaken Mandrakk for Superman. Using whatever energy left, Radiant used her near omnipotent might to cast a nigh invulnerable shield that resisted the attack. Mandrakk was surprised by the display of such power and resorted to draining than trying to destroy. As much as her shield was powerful against attacks that were meant to psychically harm, it proved little to no resistance against the power absorption of Mandrakk. Radiant was royally screwed as with each passing moment her power and life was starting to fade away. Then she remembered what Jesus Christ did. She believed that Jesus was indeed powerful enough to easily vanquish the Roman soldiers but that was not what the God intended for him. So with using whatever power left, Radiant literally poisoned her power that was being absorbed so that it could weaken Mandrakk. Surprisingly enough, despite the immense power of Mandrakk, he was oblivious to the trickery of the Radiant and he learned what Radiant did to him the hard way when he was easily obliterated by no more than fifteen Supermen and five nearly powerless Green Lanterns.
Radiant: I told you to tell him the truth Spectre. Tell him why you hated Crispus as your host
and how did you kill his son because of your spite!
Crispus: I knew it was you who killed Mal! Why did you hate me so much you f&@king son of a
b&tch?! What the hell have I done to deserve your grudge?!
Spectre: It is simple. Firstly, you never possessed the imagination and will power that could
have made me tap into the power of the Logoz, my inner aspect that allows me to use its
power. Have you possessed the intelligence and the willpower of my previous host Hal
Jordan, I could have unmade the entire creation in my own image! Not just this three
dimensional back water universe, but all the possible universes, dimensions and the timelines.
Well maybe not Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the realms of the Endless, but every other plane
of existence besides them. Secondly and finally, you were nothing short of a punishment for
me. The Presence knew that your lack of imagination and willpower would prevent me from
fully tapping into the Logoz.
Crispus: So you are nothing but a power hungry a%@hole whose purpose is to find a soul with
imagination that you could leach onto like a tick. You are far more disgusting than I have
thought. Not to mention dumb. Do you hear what you say?! Do you really think God would
allow you to make your sick fantasy become real?
Radiant: What Crispus asked is totally right. I still wonder why God still gives you access to
immense power despite your greedy claims.
Spectre: There are things that you both are oblivious. God would move against me unless
Heaven was under threat. He acted the same way when the Great Darkness ravaged Hell, the
Swamp creature and me. He only acted when the hand of the Great Darkness reached towards
the gates of Heaven. God does not care about the creation or its aspects. He even left the
creation once and the only thing that was preventing the creation collapsing was the archangel
Crispus: If God is so egotistical and oblivious, then why did he prevent you from killing
Mandrakk, Nekron and Eclipso? Don’t tell me that he works in mysterious ways.
Spectre: Sorry but he does. Look, don’t expect me to fully understand his nature. And don’t
expect the Logoz to do the same as well. It is obviously beyond me. I only do what he wants
me to do.
Crispus: Whatever, just leave my soul alone and find yourself a new host. I am done with
this crap. Since you are not going to resurrect me, I just want one simple thing from you.
Spectre: Consider it done. You will ascend to the Heaven for your service as the host of
Spectre. Besides, my master decided that my punishment is finished and even it has a gift for
me. A new host that possesses great imagination and willpower. You are now free to leave
and ascend. Despite my grudge against you, you were still more competent than I have
expected you to be.
Crispus: How f&@cking dare you complement me after what have you done?! Begone! I don’t want
your fake appreciation.
As with Crispus’s final furry against Spectre, he found himself separated from the entity and ascending towards a bright light. When he looked at Spectre and all he could see was no sign of sensation. But he perfectly knew that Spectre was screaming like a thirteen year old One Direction fangirl inside. Spectre was finally free from its burden and exchanged a simple nod with the Radiant before the Radiant started to follow Crispus into the bright light. After a minute, they were both gone and with great excitement and eagerness, the Spectre flew away to find its next host.
Sorry for the grammatical mistakes. I will do my best in the next chapter.
#2 Edited by dngn4774 (4638 posts) - - Show Bio
@sithlantern93: I'm totally afraid to touch on omnipotent characters like the Spectre but you seem to be doing it pretty well. The formating is a tad dull but it could be improved. Anyways, good job!
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@dccomicsrule2011: Thank you :) loalaoahaha ahah qxdxdxdxd ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Cool dude, interesting how you're focusing more on Crispus as oppose to Jim or Hal. :) Cool man.
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She tells Britain's Elle magazine, "I spend a lot of time with them so they know my story by the time they write, and it's always the truth.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54415 | View Full Version : cream bleach
08-19-2004, 07:41 PM
^^; this is kinda sad to say... but I was wondering...
I have light facial hair (and I'm a girl) so I got cream bleach so you can't see it, right? well.. my mom says if you use the bleach once the hair comes back darker then before. Is that true?
I couldn;t care less if the hair comes back the same it was before, but I don't want it to come back darker.
Please help ^^;
08-19-2004, 09:40 PM
Hate to tell you but your mom sounds like she twisting the old thing of, "shave it and it'll grow back thicker."
Technically this is incorrect for both instances. Your hair can't get any darker than it is already. I know from experience since I use facial bleach creme too. You're only lifting the color from the folicles that is it. So don't worry.
08-20-2004, 04:14 PM
^^ Thanks. my mom LOVES to twist facts around.
08-21-2004, 11:25 PM
Just to back up megumibish. What your mother said is not true. Bleaching it out your facial hair will not cause it come back darker or thicker since the new hair growing in your folicle is unaffected by bleaching the layer that's above on the skin.
08-24-2004, 09:01 PM
My mom's the same way... don't worry ^_^;
It's better to bleach the hair... because waxing is painful... and you have to wait for the hair to grow back. I don't recommend shaving (it causes hair to grow out a bit stubbly) so just stick to bleaching.
01-28-2009, 04:36 PM
sorry to burst your bubble but the shaving hair thing is true as it stimulates the growth of hair and technically the roots are what grow out and they are thicker then the initial body hair, there has been recent research on this so i would recommend shaving as little as possible.
01-28-2009, 07:00 PM
don't worry about the bleach cream. I used Sally Hansen bleach several times and I can assure you that it doesn't make your hair any darker when they grow back
01-28-2009, 07:34 PM
If you shave a hair, the regrowth looks thicker and darker because you are seeing the blunt, cut-off end of the hair. Natural hairgrowth has an end that tapers to a fine point, which looks lighter.
And no, shaving does not make it grow faster. Or thicker. Your follicle does not know and does not care what is happening to any part of your hair other than the root. Because the hair looks darker (see above), you may be also noticing hairs you didn't see before.
Bleach lightens the hair on the surface, and the roots growing in will look darker in comparison to the bleached hair. The roots are exactly the same color as your hair was before you bleached it.
EDIT: LOL WTF, thread from 2004. :D Keitou, you have led us astray by resurrecting this old thing. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54468 | Glossary of Commonly Used Terms
Adenine: A purine base; one of the four molecules containing nitrogen present in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA; designated by letter A.
Allele: An alternative form of a gene.
Allele Frequency: The proportion of a particular allele among the chromosomes carried by individuals in a population.
Amino acid: Any of a class of 20 molecules that are combined to form proteins in living things. The sequence of amino acids in a protein and hence protein function are determined by the genetic code.
Autosome: A chromosome not involved in sex determination. The diploid human genome consists of 46 chromosomes, 22 pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes (the X and Y chromosomes).
Basepair: Two complementary nucleotides joined by hydrogen bonds; basepairing occurs between A and T and between G and C.
Base sequence analysis: A method, sometimes automated, for determining the base sequence.
Biotechnology: A set of biological techniques developed through basic research and now applied to research and product development.
Chromosome :The structure by which hereditary information is physically transmitted from one generation to the next.
Complementary sequences: Nucleic acid base sequences that form a double-stranded structure by matching base pairs; the complementary sequence to G-T-A-C is C-A-T-G.
Cytosine: A pyrimidine base; one of the four molecules containing nitrogen present in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA; designated by letter C.
Denaturation: the process of splitting the complementary double strands of DNA to form single strands
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA): The genetic material of organisms, usually double-stranded; a class of nucleic acids identified by the presence of deoxyribose, a sugar, and the four nucleobases.
Electrophoresis: a technique in which molecules are separated by their velocity in an electric field
Enzyme: A protein that can speed up a specific chemical reaction without being changed or consumed in the process.
Gel: semisolid matrix (usually agarose or acrylamide) used in electrophoresis to separate molecules
Gene: the basic unit of heredity; a sequence of DNA nucleotides on a chromosome
Gene frequency: the relative occurrence of a particular allele in a population
Genome: All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism; its size is generally given as the total number of base pairs.
Genome projects: Research and technology development efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing some or all of the genome of an organism.
Genotype: the genetic makeup of an organism, as characterized by its physical appearance or phenotype
Guanine: a purine base; one of the four molecules containing nitrogen present in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA; designated by letter G
Heredity: the transmission of characteristics from one generation to the next
Heterozygosity: The presence of different alleles at one or more loci on homologous chromosomes.
Homologies: Similarities in DNA or protein sequences between individuals of the same linear sequences, each derived from one parent.
Homologous chromosomes: A pair of chromosomes containing the same linear gene sequences, each derived from one parent.
In vitro: Outside a living organism
Kilobase (kb): Unit of length for DNA fragments equal to 1000 nucleotides.
Linkage: The proximity of two or more markers (genes, etc.) on a chromosome; the closer together the markers are, the lower the probability that they will be separated during DNA repair or replication process, and hence the greater the probability that they will be inherited together.
Megabase (Mb): Unit of length for DNA fragments equal to one million nucleotides.
Mitosis: The process of nuclear division in cells that produces daughter cells that are genetically identical to each other and to the parent.
Multiplexing: A sequencing approach that uses several pooled samples simultaneously, greatly increasing sequencing speed.
Mutation: Any inheritable change in DNA sequence.
Nucleic acid: A nucleotide polymer that DNA and RNA are major types.
Nucleotide: A unit of nucleic acid composed of phosphate, ribose or deoxyribose, and a purine or pyrimidine base.
Nucleus: The cellular organelle in eukaryotes that contains the genetic material.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR): An in vitro process that yields millions of copies of desired DNA through repeated cycling of a reaction involving the DNA polymerase enzyme.
Polymerase, DNA or RNA: Enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of nucleic acids on preexisting nucleic acid templates, assembling RNA from ribonucleotides or DNA from deoxyribonucleotides.
Population: A group of individuals residing in a given area at a given time.
Primer: Short preexisting polynucleotide chain to which new deoxyribonucleotides can be added by DNA polymerase.
Probe: Single-stranded DNA or RNA of a specific base sequence, labeled either radioactively or immunology, that are used to detect the complementary base sequence by hybridization.
Recombinant DNA technologies: Procedurese used to join together DNA sequences in a cell-free system. Under appropriate conditions, a recombinant DNA molecule can enter a cell and replicate there, either autonomously or after it has become integrated into a cellular chromosome.
Resolution: Degree of molecular detail on a physical map of DNA.
Restriction enzyme: A protein that recognizes specific, short nucleotide sequences and cuts DNA at the those sites. Bacteria contain over 400 such enzymes that recognize and cut over 100 DNA sequences.
Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP): Variation between individuals in DNA fragment sizes cut by specific restriction enzymes; polymorphic sequences that result in RFLPs that are used as markers on both physical maps and genetic linkage maps. RFLPs are usually caused by mutation at a cutting site.
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Phalanx C-RAM
II. More Turrets Incoming
But what about the lasers?
Boeing ABL
IV. HEL MD Looks to Give Enemies Land Projectiles Hell
Boeing DES
V. Laser Weapons -- Wither Art Thou?
Storm trooper shooting laser
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By Amiga500 on 5/14/2012 2:36:00 PM , Rating: 2
The F-35 is useless.
When these things get airborne and are capable of burning through missile seeker heads, then air combat (in the shorter term) resorts to gun-gun dogfights. The F-35 is a turd in ACM. Any other contemporary aircraft with one or two pylon mounted self-protection lasers will simply be able to intercept the F-35 missile shots and then kill the JSF post-merge.
Longer term, fighters will have to be heavily shielded to deal with ever more powerful lasers, I would expect fighter aircraft to grow to J-20 size to deal with the extra weight/power requirements.
This community service announcement was brought to you 5 years ago by Amiga500. :-)
By dflynchimp on 5/14/2012 3:01:15 PM , Rating: 3
Your argument assumes the non-factor of development costs and timeframe. It's like saying we should never have used spears and swords at any point in history because we eventually developed guns, or saying body armor is useless because there are such things as armor piercing bullets.
The fact is warfare isn't a simple matter of rock beats scissors and paper disproves Spock. It's about the dynamics of utility.
This weapon's weight in its current form limits its deployment options, meaning the the conventional strategy of combined arms, of which the F-35 is a part of, is still very valid.
The advent of AA flak cannons, SAMs, and any number of other anti air measures certainly didn't stop the continued development of air combat aircraft, and neither will this.
You can make any other valid statements based on the information in this article, but it's clear you one of the less than objective crowd of F-35 detractors that would jump on any sliver of a chance to detract from it.
The F-35 program has plenty of flaws directly applicable to it, but this is not one of them.
In any case, I'm just hoping to see Gundams before I die.
By SPOOFE on 5/14/2012 3:28:59 PM , Rating: 2
When these things get airborne
... Won't be for a long, long time. These are incredibly heavy devices. Look at the "laser wagon" up there; makes an Abrams look like a Hotwheels toy.
There's a reason they want to put these on boats... because that's the only platform that can easily carry them.
By geddarkstorm on 5/14/2012 3:51:04 PM , Rating: 2
I think most of the weight relates to powering the laser, and that's really where the constraint comes in. A naval ship, or even a 747 (barely), is big enough to power a laser to destructive levels, but a little fighter plane?
By Amiga500 on 5/15/2012 1:50:32 AM , Rating: 2
Won't be for a long, long time.
In ways they already are airborne.
Some current AESA sets already possess limited DEW capability.
By FITCamaro on 5/14/2012 5:05:54 PM , Rating: 3
You can be quite the funny man.
Suggesting that we'll have flying laser-armed stealth fighters within the F35s lifetime is quite amusing. The F35 will be retired before that becomes a reality simple due to power requirements. Even if they got the size down, you'd need a mini-reactor to power it. If libs complain about shooting nuclear material into space how do you think they'll react at the thought of fighter planes flying around with reactors in them to power lasers?
By Amiga500 on 5/15/2012 1:54:18 AM , Rating: 2
How much power do you think an AESA requires?
The APG-77 for instance, is already the far side of 10 kW. There has been much speculation that the -77 would already be capable of screwing up a seeker head.
These things are on the cusp of being on aircraft right now. So stretch that over the next 20 years...
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Dec 19, 2012
Amanda Jo Williams
1. 1 Welcome to Daytrotter
2. 2 The Bear Eats Me
3. 3 Goddamn Muse
4. 4 Light On
5. 5 Wild Moonless Day
6. 6 2000 Hell
Wackiness For The Underwear Set
When you hear a little bit about a character referenced to in Amanda Jo Williams' song, "The Bear Eats Me," a person that she wrote into existence, you realize just how difficult it would be to shop for her - not just the character, but Williams too -- around the holidays. Here it is, the second-to-last week of the year and we're all pulling our hair out just trying to get mom or dad something worth a damn. We find it excruciating figuring out what book or tool set they might want.
With Williams singing, "All she needed was kitties and a rat, a curly-tailed pig and some wood that made her fat," it makes you think that her sensibilities are distorted some compared to the people who make up the majority of your list. You bet, you can FIND the kitties and the rat and the curly-tailed pig and the fattening wood, but how the shit are you going to wrap them? You'd like it better if there was just something that you could get her from Amazon and be done with it, but all she needed and likely, all she wanted, were those critters and some wood, so you're out of luck. There are some apple ponies that she's hankering for as well, but that doesn't help you any.
Williams isn't just eccentric, she's wacky as hell with her songwriting. Her muses are contortionists who ramble - sometimes it's nonsense and sometimes it's something a little less nonsensical. They are strange and they couldn't care what anyone else thinks about it. There's probably no chance that it could be changed anyway. She makes her songs wonderful abstractions of fantastical imagery and the kind of drifting focus that allows them to bend in many directions, never filling in the blanks in the ways that you'd ever suspect. You can just let yourself feel like a loon as you sing along. It's escapism and you can and should do it in your underwear. It is the default setting.
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Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 29, 2014, 01:28:26 AM »
Perhaps I am missing something. Say I am opposed to the murder of humans because of their fine manipulative control of their surrounding ecosystem, as you put it...
This position is a non-sequitur, as being part of a regime that controls nature is unrelated to one's suitability/propensity/will to continue living. It's a non-sequitur in the same way as being opposed to murdering white people because of the colour of their skin. Also remember how white people have had the power to manipulate and control black people in the past.
...This makes them akin to gods. The rest of nature is profane. Humanity is Sacred. How is this position incoherent? By your own definition, nature and humanity are separate entities. "Speciesism" (I feel dirty just typing that nonsense out) is the only logical outcome.
I suppose you could assign some kind of "merit" to humanity (I wouldn't) for its ability to destroy nature. We need to unpack what is really meant by speciesism (and by extension, bigotry) though. I can provide some examples that may help:
Example 1:
I have limited supplies of sunscreen, so I preferentially offer it to the white person sitting next to me in preference to the black person.
Verdict: The requirement for sunscreen is linked biologically or physiologically to race in this example, so the association is not a non-sequitur, therefore it is not racism, and not bigotry.
Example 2:
I have a policy of hiring white people in preference to black people in cases where their qualifications are comparable.
Verdict: The ability to do the job is not logically related to race, so the association is a non-sequitur, therefore it is racism (bigotry).
Example 3:
I hear about a captive breeding program for an endangered species. I'm pretty uncomfortable about it because I know I would never accept such a thing for humans, but it's explained to me that because of how badly we've screwed the ecosystem, this species is likely to go extinct, which will have a flow-on effect and harm other animals, and the breeding program will boost numbers in the wild.
Verdict: Since we have caused the demise of the species through our ability to manipulate nature, and their low numbers have now become a characteristic of the species that necessitates increasing the numbers, it logically follows that we should use our manipulation of nature in a way that directly addresses the characteristic of endangerment and helps the species and surrounding ecosystem. I might be opposed to keeping animals in captivity, but I wouldn't be able to use speciesism as grounds for opposition, since the necessity is logically connected to species differences and is not a non-sequitur. This is therefore not speciesism or bigotry.
Example 4:
I'm getting lazy now. So just think of an example where you say it's ok to kill someone because of Characteristic X, but in reality Characteristic X has nothing to do with suitability/propensity/will to continue living. If X is a race then it's racism. If X is a species, or the possession of a tail/feathers/gills, lack of opposing thumbs, ability to be controlled by humans (which is effectively the reason you used) etc. then it's speciesism, a form of bigotry.
Basically, in order for the killing in Example 4 to be logically consistent, Characteristic X would have to relate directly to suitability/propensity/will to live. If you have a policy of killing the terminally ill and suffering (euthanasia) then this would not be a non-sequitur. You could say a similar thing about killing all suicidal people. I would still be opposed to it and deem it unnecessary, but I wouldn't be able to call you a bigot.
It is the "while he sleeps" that is causing the debate to stall, and that is because it is contrived to do so. Killing someone "while he sleeps" is not solely part of a toolkit. Whereas attacking vulnerability certainly is part of a toolkit, this particular example ought to concurrently be considered a circumstance, a setting. We're talking about the difference between choosing which weapons to take to a battle, versus deciding under which circumstances battle is an acceptable option in the first place. Those are two completely distinct factors, and the intent to combine them into one is just plain manipulative.
Surely choosing circumstance is part of the toolkit?
But yes, doing so can be honorable. It depends. Are you killing him to steal his car keys? Then no, I doubt anyone would find that honorable(or even understandable, frankly). But what if you're killing him because he raped your daughter and managed to squirm his way out of prison time? I would consider that an honorable killing.
Agreed. Did any of the animals killed for meat, eggs and dairy knowingly rape your daughter?
Honor doesn't have anything to do with fairness anyway, honor refers simply to preserving your reputation among your fellow men.
In context of the hunt, though: you seem to fail to understand that humans use spears, arrows, traps, and guns because humans are at an inherent physical disadvantage. It is not a matter of men already being stronger, faster, and smarter than beasts, and then piling on even more ways to enforce superiority. The animal already exists at a higher level, and is in its element; these tools are ways to level the playing field.
I guess if you're saying that a level playing field doesn't matter in a discussion of honour (or even ethics I assume) then there's probably no point arguing that last bit. Either way, it's a non-sequitur if we're talking about whether someone should be killed.
Interzone / Re: Accidentally vegan
« on: January 28, 2014, 11:31:11 PM »
It's so weird to hear the word "extreme" used to describe veganism, as if eating abundant fruit and veg while wearing cotton/polyester/synthetics makes a person some kind of ascetic. If you want to see "extreme", visit a slaughterhouse.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 10, 2014, 02:36:31 AM »
Tigers evolved a set of adaptions that aide them in the hunt. The Tiger, like most form of feline, silently stalks its prey until the opportune moment arises whereupon it leaps from cover and delivers death's knell to the unsuspecting victim. The prey often doesn't see it coming, not unlike a hunter who might use an arrow or bullet to take down his meal. Is the Tiger a dishonorable creature?
The tiger is acting out of necessity. Furthermore, he/she doesn't understand the concept of honour, so it's quite irrelevant trying to attribute the words honorable or dishonorable to a tiger. The question makes as much sense as if you had asked about the tiger's ability to solve differential equations.
I think I will take the advice of others and leave it at that, unless anyone asks a direct question. On the idea of synthesis, perhaps this has been achieved to an extent as we have identified the key differences in political views that would prevent many here from agreeing with my position.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 06:20:49 AM »
Lol :) That's hilarious:
"I would advocate that any violence against the innocent shouldn't happen in civilised society."
Maybe you don't understand the nature of violence. It isn't something that is allowed or not allowed. It isn't reasoned out into should/shouldn't. It can only be stopped by superior violence, or by the ability to move faster than it.
Yours is such a totally leftist view.
Violence is a fact of life. Civilization has nothing to do with it, apart from decreasing its frequency somewhat, until the violence reasserts itself and finishes off the civilization that tried to outlaw it.
I'm not saying I honestly believe we can eradicate all violence against the innocent. My use of the word "shouldn't" was deliberate, and when it comes down to it, any discussion about ethics is really a discussion about what we should/shouldn't do. Of course you're welcome to reject ethics entirely if you like, and that would be a coherent position.
1. We don't just modify the environment. We intentionally manipulate the overall systems in which nature functions. Civilisation has a fine level of control over nature, suggesting to me that we have separated ourselves from nature, while retaining many of the instincts we evolved from having been a part of nature. No other species fits this description. I guess the problem with such an argument is that we are possibly both defining nature differently. If your definition requires that nature is a system that contains civilised society, then there is no arguing with you as I would be wrong by definition.
You are wrong in your definition. Everything humanity is and does is part and parcel of nature. Unless you can draw a line that isn't completely arbitrary, there is no argument.
Can we at least agree that humans (at least those in civilisation) are the only species that has fine manipulative control of surrounding ecosystems? And that an argument concerning ethics would dictate that this brings with it responsibilities?
Understood. Let's just leave it at that since it's ultimately a question of radically different values.
My position is that if you are ethically opposed to murder of humans, then it would follow that you would have to be vegan. And if you believe that racism and sexism are ethically and logically incoherent ideologies, then you have to be against speciesism in the same way. So if you are not against murder, racism and sexism, then you're right that it's best to leave it at that.
So are you saying that there IS honour in hitting a man with a baseball bat while he is asleep?
Don't dodge. I asked why you wanted to limit the tool kit we have before us.
Because the question concerned whether killing could be honorable (which I took to require fairness), even though in my opinion neither of these things are even relevant to the ethics of killing. If you think that using the full tool kit is still honorable, then you would logically have to think that it is honorable to kill a man with a baseball bat while he sleeps.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 03:29:21 AM »
It's doubtful that many people would argue against vegan ethics, unless they were simply a contrarian, or if they were genuinely lacking in empathy. At this point, it is determined by historical precedent, and system. The changes that would need to occur - moving at the speed demanded by most vegans - would very likely cause greater problems than the ones you rail against, and ultimately be counter-productive. See similar faulty observations/propositions in the "holocaust under 120s" argument.
I'm surprised at how many people do argue against vegan ethics. They will make any excuse to keep their heads stuck in the sand and to not have to think critically about their own involvement in animal abuse. I've been impressed with people's willingness to engage the topic in this forum though. As for the speed of change argument, I can see that if the whole world turned vegan tomorrow, chaos would probably ensue, but the reality is that change is occurring far too slowly. The percentage of vegans in the world has increased encouragingly during the past ten years or so, but the last thing I'm scared of is that the world will turn vegan too quickly.
1. Let's get our terms straight. Humanity is a part of nature, as is well, everything else. Humanity is able to "modify" the environment, but so can just about every other form of life. It's simply a matter of scale & intent.
2. The contradiction is in asserting that humans should know better while simultaneously claiming that they no more special than any other form of life. You are on one hand, placing them above all other things (ethics) while the other, asserting that they aren't above all other life. You've done it again, by the way, through your assertion that humanity is the only species who are capable of modifying nature. That is a bold claim.
2. I think you've missed the point a little bit while saying that I assert that humans "aren't above all other life", as I actually reject the idea of inherent value in sentient life (as I think most people here do). I personally value my family members ahead of anyone else, as well as having other biases, but a social justice viewpoint is separate from this (whether that viewpoint is anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-speciesist etc.) in that what matters is the individual's capacity to value his or her own life. I don't have to like or value someone in order to want basic justice for them. I may have a personal dislike of Mexicans, and assign less value to them because of bias, but I will always stand against racist actions and in favour of social justice because I know that the evidence suggests Mexicans have an equal capacity to value their own lives (yeah...I'm a pinko liberal...sorry).
I'm not making you into a problem. This started with a simple observation: Why are most vegans persistently angry? You responded to my observation and thus we proceed from there. I'm not going to bother with the rest of that.
My apologies for that.
I'm confused. Why are you limiting the choices I may make from the toolkit I have before me? What is the logic behind limiting an honorable kill to tooth and claw? Why not intellect? Why not use these these wonderful appendages to fashion myself a spear? It seems like you are looking for a "fair fight" in which case I would suggest you spend some time in the wilderness and see if other life approaches you "fairly."
Personally I don't think it makes a difference whether a kill is honorable, but I was simply answering a question of whether hunting/killing could be considered honorable. I would maintain that an honorable fight means a fair fight, but this is irrelevant coming from me as I would advocate that any violence against the innocent shouldn't happen in civilised society.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 01:09:16 AM »
I remembered what I wanted to ask you last night. is hunting the only form of honor regarding the consuming of am animal? I feel like livestock raised on one's own property, given proper care and diet, and slaughtered humanely is honorable. One builds a direct relationship with the creatures as one does a garden and an intimate understanding of the cycles of life.
This wasn't directed at me, so I apologise in advance if I get it wrong, but I hardly see how hunting is in any way honorable, anymore than hitting a guy with a baseball bat while he's sleeping. Maybe if you use those ferocious claws and teeth of yours to actually sever the jugular vein of a live deer, after you've chased him/her there might be some honour. I might even congratulate you.
As for the livestock slaughter being honorable, replace the word "livestock" with "children" and the answer should be obvious, since as far as we know both have a will to live borne from a deep survival instinct. The livestock never had a sporting chance to begin with, as they were born in captivity before they could defend themselves in any way. Then the farmer you refer to builds trust over time until betraying it right at the end. All cowardice is the same.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 01:00:50 AM »
Largely we don't eat carnivores. If ruminants could metabolize human meat I'm sure they would eat us, given necessity and opportunity.
The key word being necessity. But also I'm sure that if women actually had penises and men had vaginas, but women were also physically much stronger than men and with twice the libido, the women would rape us given the chance! So, we'd better rape them while we can just to keep them in check. We're all equal, afterall!
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 12:56:50 AM »
In my view, deer are like every other creature: there's a carrying capacity per acre.
As Wild noted, and others followed up on, humans are above their own carrying capacity.
Thus we've displaced others species which then concentrate in the green belts at unhealthy numbers which will denude the landscape, requiring the intervention of Rednecks who will shoot them and make tasty sausage.
Based only on the logic you have presented, it is the humans who need to be shot, not the deer. I would also be careful not to take what the Rednecks say about overpopulation as gospel. If they present a "solution" to the overpopulation, which also by complete coincidence happens to allow them a constant and reliable income stream, I would be questioning their motives. Most of us would say pretty much anything to get an income. Did you ever lie in a job interview?
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 08, 2014, 12:50:29 AM »
Hubris goes both ways. It's easy to point it out when humans declare they are above nature - which by the way is philosophically unique to our civilization - it's painful to see that hubris go unnoticed when people claim that humans should know better (a statement that places humans above animals, only different in context). Life is in a constant push pull with itself due to a finite amount of space and resources. Organisms adapt to exploit what niche they are able to find. Expecting humanity to act against this cardinal mechanism, turning to misanthropy when Man falls to live up to YOUR image of him is asinine.
Most people probably have no clue how industry treats what ends up on their table and are far to busy handling concerns greater than how the food got on the table. Spreading the information to them is good, but don't insult them like they never heard Jesus.
I don't see how the two positions are inconsistent: 1. We are the only species able to manipulate nature as we please, which is a result of living in a civilisation. 2. We therefore have ethical responsibilities that are a result of living in a civilisation (ie. we "should know better"). You stated both as if they are direct contradictions.
I realise that my misanthropy is counterproductive and I therefore try to suppress it when interacting in person. However, your wording of "Man falls to live up to YOUR image of him", and the overall point you are trying to make with the emphasis, is based on a populist fallacy, ie. making *me* the problem only seems logical because I'm currently in the minority. If we choose a violent event that had a majority against it (at least in the US where most of you are from) such as 9/11, it would have been absurd to criticise the armchair viewers who said "them terrists dun wrong", as it would have been clear that the issue was not the failure of the terrorists to live up to THEIR image of Man, but rather the impact the event had on [the family of] the victims. It's easy to focus on who the vegans are and their personalities (ad hominem fallacy) but the real subject of discussion is about the victims we want to protect. Of course the connotations of the word "victim" are only real if one believes in the morality that comes with civilisation. This is where Wild's position is stronger than mine; if civilisation and morality crumble, then (according to my world view, not Wild's) so does veganism.
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 07, 2014, 05:42:08 AM »
I don't really disagree with you. What strikes me most about the vegan position is the general misanthropy of their beliefs towards people, when people do the same things all life on this planet will do - due to limited space and limited resources - it is only a matter of scale that makes our actions seem more heinous. I don't understand why one extreme (mass consumption/displacement/destruction of non-human life) has to lead vegans in the complete opposite extreme.
Where is the balance?
Many vegans are misanthropic, but the concept of "no unnecessary violence or slavery" is one that veganism applies to humans as well non-human animals. You are right that we do have different expectations of civilised human behaviour as compared to that of a lion or caveman. This isn't because of misanthropy, as it actually upholds a higher standard in humans because in civilisation we are capable of making ethical decisions. I would never criticise an ancient tribe living isolated from society which relies on fishing/hunting as a food source.
I don't quite understand your connection between limited resources and the need to exploit animals. Obviously increased population means increased food production (which currently involves animals) but in order to achieve this it would make more sense to use more efficient forms of production, which means feeding all our soy and grain etc. directly to humans. As it stands, we artificially inflate the herbivore population, then feed them 80% of the world's soy, 85% of which they literally turn to shit, and then eat the small portion of it that converts to "food".
Interzone / Re: Who are the pests?
« on: January 07, 2014, 05:07:15 AM »
Why are all vegans perpetually angry?
Because we are surrounded by people who are either unwilling or unable to grasp basic logic, including members of our family who we would otherwise respect.
We are surrounded by speciesism, but with no justification given for exactly what the relevant differences are between people and cows (for example) that make one ok to kill but not the other, because it is so ingrained within society. Everyone we know is ethically opposed to the murder of innocent humans for food/pleasure/entertainment etc. yet they fail to extend this same position to other sentient animals based on a naturalistic fallacy ie. "but the cavemen did it!" or "but lions eat zebras!" as if cavemen and wild animals are a reasonable model to base one's ethics upon in civilised society. Adopting caveman/lion ethics is effectively the same as dismissing ethics altogether, which could be a logically coherent position as long as you don't complain if a beloved human is murdered.
I'm angry because I feel as if I'm surrounded by racists (speciesists) who say "but we are the superior species!" Now if for example, Hitler had scientific proof that Jews were inferior, would this have made the Holocaust justifiable? Of course not. The branding of someone as "inferior" is just a defence mechanism to make people feel better about unnecessary exploitation/harm of sentient innocent beings. I'm surrounded by holocaust deniers, who seem to pretend that it isn't their fault that we unnecessarily kill 60 billion land animals and about a trillion sea animals each year.
I'm surrounded by people who make excuses like "I think you own something that may have been produced in less than fair working conditions, so it's ok for me to kill animals everyday for no reason", when they know this excuse would not stand if the atrocities they were committing were against humans. 99% of all the suffering and death we cause is through consumption of meat, dairy and eggs. Quit eating those and then I'll happily discuss the other 1% with you.
But in real life I'm actually pretty chilled out. If people think I'm a dickhead they'll never side with me.
« on: December 07, 2012, 01:35:56 PM »
Fair enough. "Diagnoses" was the wrong word to use, and I should have instead used "Syndromes". I guess they can just be thought of as categories of personality type, both of which are probably very conducive to good art.
« on: December 06, 2012, 12:47:24 PM »
Both seem like very accurate diagnoses!
« on: November 15, 2012, 05:10:27 PM »
Despite the hipster hype, Xasthur's "Telepathic with the Deceased" truly is a great album. I would rank it one level below Joined in Darkness. Everything after that got shockingly boring.
To be honest I'd rate "Subliminal Genocide" a cut above the other Xasthur that I've heard. I'm a drooling Leviathan fanboy though, so should probably be ignored.
Thanks for posting those links! Something that occurred to me while watching, was that all three men seemed very much "in touch with their feelings" and self-reflecting, probably to a greater extent than most of society. This is probably necessary to create such powerful art, and flies in the face of the autism/Asperger's stereotype mentioned earlier. On the one hand they reject humanity, but on the other they can't escape their own.
Interzone / Re: Modern Progress
« on: November 02, 2012, 02:58:04 AM »
Amazing. So what's the solution?
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Oh Mama! How fantastic! Im so glad he ate so much for you! I bet you were so happy. I remember crying after her first before/after feed where she actually moved 2 ozs in 20 minutes. At that point we KNEW she could do it, it was just a matter of dealing with the nipple confusion and oversupply/letdown issues.
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Do you think maybe you could start cutting some pumps so that when you transition completely to the breast you dont have as much of an over supply?
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Hi all,
Verizon pushed a firmware update to my device on Oct 29. it is 2.11.605.5. My device status screen says "Update Successful" and Code 200.
BUT, now my MENU button does not work in any program, or even on the home screen. When I push it, I get the small vibration feedback but nothing happens.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54638 | Combining SEL and Social Studies | Edutopia
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Those of you working in social studies, history, and civics education will find that social, emotional learning (SEL) can help your students pull together what they are learning in engaging ways that also deepen their understanding of the material. I'd like to present a lesson you can use within the context of your current curricula.
Background and Standards Considerations
Because newspaper articles contain only the most critical points about an issue, attempting to write one provides practice in learning how to summarize information concisely. The following lesson will help students learn how a social decision-making/critical thinking/SEL framework can be used to summarize the main points of an issue.
Also, by working together to create an article, students may better understand how current events represent problems that require solutions. The task of creating a newspaper article is often highly engaging for students as many of them will enjoy creatively designing front pages, and so on. (Note that you can reformat the lesson to be compatible with any set of problem solving/decision making steps students are being taught as part of SEL or character development lessons.)
The Lesson Objectives
Consider the following goals and objectives. Student will...
1. Understand the process used in creating a newspaper article.
2. Build decision-making and problem solving skills.
3. Develop critical thinking skills to use when analyzing current or historical accounts of events.
Instructional Sequence
Begin the class by discussing the topic area under study. Define any new vocabulary words. Discuss the "who, what, where, when, and why" of the topic.
Next, you will want to introduce the idea that historical and current events represent the outcomes of decision-making activities. Stress that just as personal problems require solutions, world problems also need them. Provide students with examples of how different solutions to the same problem result in very different consequences. The examples can come from local (even school) issues affecting students' own lives in order to better make the point. Be sure students understand how to think about current and historical events as problems before proceeding.
Finally, introduce the assignment, which is titled, "Creating A Newspaper Article" (see below). Use the following questions first to help orient students:
• How was information about current events communicated before the advent of newspapers? (Talk about this as a problem)
• How is information about current events communicated now? How do you get most of your current events information? (Talk about this as a problem, as well, and look into the potential strengths and weaknesses of the various sources, including the internet, and especially of relying only on one source)
Either have them all work on a common topic or each define an individual topic, or some other variation as fits into your curriculum. Ask them to describe an aspect of the topic as a problem. Once the students have decided on the problem, have them identify those individuals or the different groups who are involved in the problem and to reflect on the character of key individuals in the story. Students can refer to their textbooks, newspaper articles, the Internet, and so on, to do this. After students have identified the different groups, ask them to imagine what the feelings of each group might be. Next, have them identify goals for each group.
Finally, as you prep them for the assignment, provide a reflective opportunity at the end with this question: What problems do you think most reporters face in trying to write an article? What problems did you experience in writing this article? How did you solve them?
The Assignment
(The following assignment can be presented as a worksheet, or digitally, as a Powerpoint or on an interactive whiteboard.)
Creating a Newspaper Article
Directions: Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter for The New York Times or a more local newspaper. You have been asked to write a newspaper article on a current events topic or a social studies topic you have just finished studying in class.
Think about some part of the topic as an event or problem. Then, use the problem-solving outline to help write your article. At the end, be sure to give your article a headline and check to be sure that your article answers the following questions:
1. What is the problem you are thinking about?
2. What people or groups of people are involved? What do you know about the character/laws of life of key individuals involved?
3. What feelings and goals does each person or group have?
4. What are some possible solutions to achieve each goal?
5. What are some of the consequences? (Consider both long- and short-term, for each possible solution)
6. What solution was chosen? Do you think a different choice should have been made? If so, why?
7. What could have been done to improve the chosen plan?
8. Summarize the information in the article and draw some conclusions.
Tips for Instruction
Consider first introducing the lesson by bringing in an article and analyzing it with the whole class, using the eight questions above as a framework. Don't allow students to begin working in small groups until they have demonstrated that they understand how to apply the framework.
And remember, although the students are being asked to write a newspaper article, the topic does not have to be a current event. Topics can be drawn from a variety of instructional sources (e.g., history textbooks, videos of historical dramatizations, or news broadcasts).
Letters to the editor and editorials often reflect attempts by citizens to generate solutions to problems. Ask students to read an editorial or a letter to the editor and have them critique it by applying the decision-making framework to examine how systematically the writer thought through his or her presentation of and/or response to a problem.
(For more examples of related lessons, see Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving by L. Bruene and M. Elias, which offers curricula grades K-8.)
Maurice Elias
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54650 | VisuAide Maestro
Two PDAs for the blind in two days. VisuAide's Maestro is actually an HP iPAQ h4150 Pocket PC that's been tricked out with text-to-speech and a special tactile keyboard that sits on top of its touchscreen. No braille matrix like the BrailleNote PK, but it obviously has all of the features that the h4150, like built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, and you can connect a braille keyboard to it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54651 | We already knew these two would be working together. Actually, we knew this since E3, so there's no news there. But, we assure you, there is some news in this story and it's the possibility of Nintendo moving away from the completely horrible friend codes system that many do not enjoy on the DS. No, the news is that Gamespy will incorporate friend rosters, matchmaking and ranking data into Wi-Fi compatible games, similar to the same online features many Xbox 360 fanboys enjoy.
And we couldn't be happier ...
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54652 | Stealing £3 million ($5.94 million) worth of mobile phones sure sounds like a risky way to may a buck, but if you're going to jack mobile handsets, you might as well swipe the ones that depreciate the least, eh? A crew of four men in Europe apparently agreed with that mantra, as they got up the nerve to run a Vertu van off the road with their Subaru and reportedly swiped a fair amount of handsets before darting off. There was no word on just how many phones were actually stolen, but we're sure the boys in blue found a fully stocked trunk after it located the crashed vehicle in Slough, Banks. Two of the four masked bandits were later captured and arrested for their part in the heist, but the other duo is probably trying to figure out how in the world they would unload hordes of these highly sought after mobiles without garnering suspicion in the first place.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54653 | As promised, the PlayStation Store has now been updated with plenty of E3 content. Some from the Sony Press Conference itself and some from, no doubt, the floor of E3. We've laid out a full list of content available now below, but we want to start by asking: "Where is the Press Conference itself?" It's not a huge deal, but it was promised. Who knows, maybe we'll see some more content being put up as the days go by. We'll keep you updated.
So go get! We'll let you know when/if anything new comes up.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54655 | If you've been looking beneath couch cushions in an attempt to scrounge up enough cash to pick up a pair of Hauppauge HD PVRs for some sweet dual recording action, hold your horses just a second. We're seeing conflicting reports floating around the web stating that Hauppauge isn't officially supporting dual tuner setups, yet some inquiries are yielding the opposite response. Interestingly, we've heard that the HD PVR drivers actually do understand multiple tuner setups, but the outfit has yet to test and officially acknowledge support for such scenarios. For those who already grabbed a couple, why not give it a go and let us know how it turns out? Either way, we're hoping Hauppauge clears this up in short order, but we'd probably steer clear of ordering several until that happens.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54659 | Blizzard doesn't need you, E3! "Activision Blizzard Inc." is showing up at E3, but one half of that power couple already plans to stay home and count its money ... and laugh at all the broken homes it's created with World of Warcraft. Giant Bomb has been told by a Blizzard rep. that the powerhouse developer will "not be attending or participating in E3 2009."
Don't worry, kids. If you want to touch the Blizzard goods, it'll probably be at a public event and the company is gonna make you pay for the privilege! Put that $100 aside for Blizzcon now (if it happens this year) and prepare to hit F5 like a monkey as soon as tickets go on sale for a (slim) chance to enter the Blizzaphile lovefest.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54660 | If you're like us, you like free costumes in LittleBigPlanet -- primarily because it's hard to resist free stuff. Media Molecule's next gratis offering is this "Druid" costume, created to celebrate the summer solstice. As with many of the game's free costumes, this costume will only be available for a week. Europeans will want to hit the PlayStation Store tomorrow (June 18th), while North American PS3 owners will have to wait until next week, June 25th.
The long white robe should help -- as noted by Takorii -- create some excellent Assassin's Creed costumes. We'll certainly be using the beard whenever we cross a bridge in the game, screaming "You shall not pass!"
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54665 | Around 140,000 Apple machines still infected with Flashback malware, says Symantec
By now, we're all quite familiar with the Java-driven trojan that's affected thousands of Apple's rigs, and while the numbers seem to have drastically dropped since the first Cupertino fix, there's still a plethora of machines carrying the bug. According to Symantec, the number of infected computers is now at around 140,000, seeing a decline of over 460,000 since April 9th. Still, the security outfit remains puzzled by the fact, as it expected the digits to be somewhere near the 99,000 mark by now. Perhaps this is due to some folks not even being aware of Flashback's existence, or maybe not checking for software updates as often as most of us. Either way, we hope you've already used one of the tools Apple handed you.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54667 | Unknown Worlds, developers of Natural Selection 2, will take a break from sci-fi action and delve deep into fantastical underwater exploration with Subnautica. Taking the underwater slipstreams less traveled, the developer is announcing the game in its early stages of prototyping.
"The first in-game art assets are being created, soundscapes are being recorded, and animations are starting to slither, turn and swim. We have created a rich library of concept art, and set about designing and iterating on core elements of gameplay," wrote Unknown Worlds' Hugh Jeremy in the game's reveal post. "Subnautica is not in 'alpha,' it is an idea that is just starting to be mold into its first playable incarnations."
With that said, there's no launch window. The game's development will flow along now with community feedback about what they'd like to explore under the sea.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54708 | JULY 13, 1863 - Crossing the river is the most dangerous part of the retreat for the Confederates. If the federals attack during the crossing, they will catch the army out of position to defend in strength. But the Yankees are confident the Potomac is still too high to let the Confederates slip away. Instead of attacking, the Army of the Potomac starts digging in. "This is too long for me," Lee says. As night falls, the Army of Northern Virginia begins crossing the river in earnest.
Gen. Lee orders the bands to play to mask the sounds of the wagons rumbling over the bridges. Soon the night air if full of music along the front lines.
"The stirring airs of Dixie, Bonnie Blue Flag, and Soldiers Joy sent a thrill of enthusiasm," writes one Rebel soldier.
The musicians of the Army of the Potomac take up the challenge. They answer back with the strains of John Brown's Body, Yankee Doodle and The Star-Spangled Banner.
"I saw men around me - strong men, too - cry like children," a Virginia soldier later writes, "and I was told afterward by one of (the) opposing side, the music had the same effect on their soldiers."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54713 | A dark detecting circuit for your jack-o’-lantern
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Our pumpkin project is closely related to the minimalist dark-detecting LED circuit that we showed previously.
In that project– basically an LED throwie with a sensor– a phototransistor controls a single LED.
While the minimalist circuit is marvelously compact and simple, it is limited both in terms of sensitivity, LED driving capability, and extensibility. It can drive a single red or yellow LED from a lithium coin cell– but that’s it– and it requires fairly bright light (e.g., direct sunlight) to turn off the LED.
So our new dark-detecting circuit is only almost as compact or simple, but is much more sensitive, and is capable of driving several bright LEDs for your Jack-o’lantern. We’ll get started with the basic circuit construction, using two LEDs for eyes, and then look at how to modify the circuit to use more or different types of LEDs.
Here’s a list of parts for the basic design (with two LEDs):
• A phototransistor (we use type LTR-3208E)
• 2N3904 (or similar) transistor, QTY 2.
• 5k ohm resistor
• Yellow or red LEDs, QTY 2. (We used 10 mm diffused yellow LEDs)
• 50 ohm resistors (one for each LED)
• Battery holder with 2 AA-size alkaline batteries
circuit diagram
[Technical description of the circuit:
The photosensitive element is a phototransistor. We use type LTR-3208E here; it's an infrared-sensitive type with a dark lens. Being IR sensitive it sees sunlight and incandescent lights, but not fluorescent or (most) discharge lamps-- it really will come on at night. The typical "saturation" current of this type of phototransistor is only of order 1 mA, which means that under conditions much less bright than sunlight, we get much less than 1 mA of output current. To increase the sensitivity of our pumpkin enough to detect indirect daylight lighting-- not just direct sunlight-- we use the phototransistor as one element of a Darlington pair. When daylight is detected, the phototransistor turns on (just a little bit), which turns on the first 2N3904, which pulls the base of the second 2N3904 to ground, and preventing the LEDs from turning on. When it's dark out, no current can flow through the phototransistor or the first 2N3904, which allows the base of the second 2N3904 to be pulled high through the 5 k transistor, which turns on the LEDs through that transistor. As drawn here, the circuit draws 0.5 - 1 mA (depending on ambient light) when it's daytime and up to about 35 mA when driving the two LEDs at night. (If your LEDs are superbright types, you might want to cut down on brightness and power usage by using larger load resistors.) The photosensitive part of the circuit is independent of what's actually driven by the second 2N3904, so you can change the load applied there easily. Our circuit is drawn with two LEDs, each with its own load resistor, however you can actually use 1-4 parallel LEDs if each has its own load resistor.]
DarkPumpkin - 01
A good place to start playing with a circuit like this is on a solderless breadboard. For the most part you can follow the circuit diagram. You’ll need to know that on our type of phototransistor the flat side that denotes the “collector” pin (“C” on the diagram). Also, the pins of the 2N3904 are called (left-to-right) Emitter, Base, Collector (E, B, and C on the diagram), when viewing it from the front such that you can read the writing. On the LEDs, the side with the short lead and/or flatted faced on the lens is generally the cathode, which is the side with the flat bar in the diagram.
DarkPumpkin - 02
From there, we constructed the same circuit on a small piece of plain perfboard. There are three twisted wire pairs going off from this little board to (1) the photosensor and (2,3) the LEDs. (There are really just the two transistors and three resistors on the board– the resistor-looking thingies with one black stripe are just fancy wire jumpers.)
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Here’s the whole setup with the phototransistor and LEDs visible at the ends of their wire leads. We use the long leads to be able to put the LEDs and sensor exactly where we want them in the pumpkin. We’ve protected the end of the leads with heat-shrink tubing. (No use shorting out our circuit with pumpkin goo.) The circuit board is strapped to the 2 x AA battery box with a cable tie.
DarkPumpkin - 04
Our pumpkin design here is subtle– just a pumpkin with light up eyes, close together like some kind of small creature in the dark. But, you can go nuts in all kinds of ways with LEDs in jack-o’-lanterns, so please do! (And don’t forget to add your pictures to the Evil Mad Science Auxiliary on flickr!) Regular twist drills, turned by hand, work very well for making LED holes in pumpkins.
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Here are the LEDs inserted into the holes. They’re nearly invisible. Note that the LEDs are off, because the room lights are on.
Next, to drill a hole for the phototransistor. We put this hole in the back side of the lid of the pumpkin, behind the stem.
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And here is the photosensor installed neatly in place. (You won’t notice it unless you look for it.)
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You can test the pumpkin for photosensitivity by covering up the sensor by hand.
DarkPumpkin - 11
As we hinted earlier, this circuit is extensible– you can use it as the starting point for other things as well. You can add extra LEDs (each with its own load resistor) in parallel with the two shown in the diagram to use a total of about 35 mA. If you require slightly more output current, you can somewhat decrease the value of the 5k resistor, which will increase the base current through the second 2N3904, and produce a higher output current. (Note that this will make the circuit both more power hungry and a little bit less efficient.)
The circuit as drawn is fairly flexible in terms of input voltage, up to about 5 V, if you also increase the value of the LED load resistors to keep the LED current at a safe level. One consequence of this is that you could drive the circuit from 3-4 cells of rechargeable NiMH/NiCd battery or 4.5 V (from 3 AA’s) to provide a large enough voltage to directly drive green, white, or blue LEDs. Another approach to driving drive green, white, or blue LEDs is to leave the voltages where they are, but to use a joule thief, and hook that up where an LED would normally go.
Finally, here is a slight variation on the design:
circuit diagram 2
This variation allows you to tune the light-sensitivity of the circuit. In this, we’ve replaced the 5 k fixed resistor with a 5 k potentiometer, and added a 1k resistor to restrict the maximum current into the second 2N3904.
You can find more pumpkin projects in our Halloween Project Archive.
28 thoughts on “A dark detecting circuit for your jack-o’-lantern
1. I ordered the parts from DigiKey, we’ll see how it works out!
If I wanted to drive a bunch of LED’s (say a dozen, so I can make a mouth to go with the eyes), I presume I can duplicate that last transistor in the chain a couple of times… no?
• Actually, I have an 8-port darlington chip around somewhere, I’m sure that would work fine. Use the output of the last transistor to trigger all eight ports of the darlington (should take very little current) and use each port to power a couple of LEDs.
Have to make those D-cells, probably, but that’s a detail…
• You will be limited by the fact that there’s a small amount of base current to drive the additional transistors, so that probably won’t work too well. I’d suggest reducing the value of the 5k resistor to (maybe) 1 k or so to allow additional current to be driven by the second 2N3904. A second approach that may work well is to use the output of this circuit to drive a small DC solids-state relay, for example an AQV101, which could drive a great many LEDs.
Windell H. Oskay
• Or perhaps a triode as seen in those lovely cardboard boxes a few posts back. Although you’d have to have a bit more in the way of a power supply, you’d have that nice, warm filament glow to supplement the that of the LEDs.
2. I would love to try making this! But I do have to admit, you did have me confused with the resistor diagrams. Over here in the UK we draw them as a rectangle.
• The "squiggle" drawing is still fairly common in the US and Japan, while the rectangle is the standard in Europe. (Google search for "resistor symbol" for more information.) But in any case, each still has two terminals– you can hardly screw it up. :)
Windell H. Oskay
• Not always. Resistor as an actual is rectangle, as a load is zig zag?. From what I remember
• Zig-zag is used only sometimes for certain resistive loads such as heating elements. In other cases rectangle is used.
3. Just a thought, is a pumpkin acidic enough to be able to eliminate the coin battery altogether, like a lemon battery?
If not, would an actual lemon thrown inside the pumpkin do it?
• No. You seem to have a misconception about what a lemon (or pumpkin) battery is capable of.
A single-lemon battery produces about 2 mA at 1 V. To produce 35 mA at 3 V to run this project, we’d need three lemons in series, seventeen times in parallel– 51 lemons total. And (punchline) *they wouldn’t fit in the pumpkin!* And, when lemons cost $1 each at the store, we’re talking about adding $50 to the cost of this (otherwise cheap) project.
Windell H. Oskay
4. It would be awesome to throw up a quick digikey parts list for this project! It’s rather time consuming to hunt down the parts in online catalogs!
• LTR-3208E: 160-1031-ND
2N3904: 2N3904FS-ND
50 ohm resistor: 49.9XBK-ND
5k resistor: 4.99KXBK-ND
Battery holder: SBH-321AS-ND
LED: no exact match.
Okay, that took me about four minutes. It’s not quite what I’d call "rather time consuming."
Windell H. Oskay
5. If you switch our the resistors leading to the LEDs could you up the voltage 12 and run more LEDs in series? For instance, 2 sets of three 20ma 5mm LEDs with a 90-100 ohm resistor before each series of LEDs.
6. Think my brain just popped – trying to make this circuit run off a 12v power source, used a 22k resistor in place of the the 5k and 470 ohm resistors for each of the 4 15000mcd blue LEDs. When I hook up the power, the LEDs light up, but with no affect from the phototransistor. I have tried running this circuit using different phototransistors ranging from CdS photoresistor "radioshack" to a mal100a "30v 50mA to -18L". Do you think it might be the phototransistor or my attempt at running this off 12v? Really wanting to run this off the 12v if possible. In addition I have many of the mal110a phototransistors. Figuring out which is collector and emitter was fairly simple for these. And, all of the phototransistors behaved the same when used outside of this circuit. If I run the led with its resistor and phototransistor – hooked up to power the led is dim, when its brought to a light source the led brightens. Yep, brain is gonna pop
• I have a similar problem !!-
The project works well indoors–the LEDs go out (dark) when the lights are swithed on, and turn on (bright) when the lights are off, and when I take the project outside in the shade–the LED’s shut down (dark) –but in bright sunlight, the LEDs light up again !!
I thought it was the Phototransistor–so I replaced it with the clear one from Radioshack, and changed my transistors–and redid the wiring, to see if there was a short. No help! The LEDs contiue to turn on (light yes) in bright sunlight.
7. First off i am no expert with electronics. I have had training in the past buy have not used my knowledge in some years. I would like to make the small Cylon pumpkin, and incorporate the dark detecting circuit along with a solar panel to charge this.
Would i have to just use your Cylon circuit and add the solar panel and IN914 Diode and the LTR-3208E before the Cylon circuit? Any help would be appreciated.
Thad Johnson
8. I made two of these just the other day and they seem to work well. Under normal desk light they light up. I had to stick it in front of a light bulb for it to shut off. Hopefully it will be good under daylight settings like in the photo’s above. Going to use it for the LED ghosts if possible.
Mind the soldering skills :).
9. Hi I’d like to do this project but I have not been able to find the phototransistor LTR-3208E locally. I have been offered a 5M3B phototransistor. Are the 2 similar and can be interchanged for this or similar projects? Thanks for your help and for a great site!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54761 | Docket Management
Docket: 00N-1396 - Premarket Notice Concerning Bioengineered Foods
Comment Number: EC -180
Accepted - Volume 23
Comment Record
Commentor Ms. mary mottet Date/Time 2001-03-26 11:50:12
Organization personal comment
Category Individual
Comments for FDA General
1. General Comments I wish you to know that I am against accidental or intentional introduction of genetically bio-engineered plants and food into the marketplace. Also, I am against introduction of genetically bio-engineered foods into the feed stream of publicly consumed livestock. Off-subject, but certainly also important: - I am opposed the residual presence of Bovine Growth Hormone found in many publicly consumed dairy products, including dean's (and others') ice cream and milk etc. - Please do something to stop transfer of pirons from livestock infected with Mad Cow when their animal by-products are introduced into the livestock feed stream.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54762 | From: brenda dunn [] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:36 PM To: Subject: GE consumer concerns To whom it may concern (as this concerns me greatly), I am an american citizen whom is greatly concerned about all the news I've heard and programs I've seen on the television about the state of our food. On 60 minutes, for example, there were proponets of genetically modified food from Monsanto saying how people in this country aren't opposing it, as well as touting it, etc. The program also showed how people in England are practically rioting against it, as well as in other countries like France. Well, the people in this country may be less informed, more apathetic and less joined but it doesn't mean that it is okay that there are such high percentages of genetically engineered foods without any indication that they are, sitting on the shelves across this nation. That there is no labeling of GE foods shows a blatant disrespect and no concern for consumers. The people of this country are being treated like idiots by such companies as Monsanto and the FDA. It's time that we are heard: mandatory labeling, testing for long term effect on health and enviroment. From, Brenda Dunn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54772 | Alpha Guide Rail System 12 ft
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Alpha Guide Rail System 12ft
This Alpha Guide Rail System for AWS-110 4 1/2" wet saw allows the user to perform a cut that is true and straight, time after time. Easy to set up and portable.
The Alpha Guide Rail System is an accessory to the Alpha Edge crafter and AWS-110/AWS-125 Wet Stone Cutter. It is a collection of high quality straight edges constructed of sturdy cast aluminum.
The Guide Rail System can be set up in minutes and fully supports the weight of the Edge crafter and AWS-110/AWS-125 allowing for machine quality cuts and polish without the need for expensive machinery.
When used with the AWS-110 or AWS-125, the Carriage Assembly allows the stone cutter to traverse the guide rail and perform a cut that is straight and true, time after time.
Additionally, the system was designed to allow for an easy transition from cutting to polishing without the need to re-position the rail. After cutting, remove the AWS Stone Cutter and Carriage Assembly and attach the Edge crafter and its Carriage Assembly.
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Alpha AWS-125 - Alpha AWS-110 - Alpha Universal Rail System - Alpha Cutting System Overview
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54783 | Apple Carrot and Raisin Salad
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 5 mins
This light and fresh salad makes a nice sweet side to any poultry dish, such as grilled chicken or turkey.
Ingredients Nutrition
• 2 carrots, shredded
• 1 apple, julienned (preferably Pink Lady or Ambrosia)
• 29.58-44.37 ml raisins (or a combination) or 29.58-44.37 ml sultanas (or a combination) or 29.58-44.37 ml craisins (or a combination)
• 4.92 ml cinnamon honey
• 4.92 ml lemon juice
• 9.85 ml citrus peppercorn vinaigrette dressing
1. Combine the first three ingredients in a serving bowl and toss to combine.
2. Whisk together remaining ingredients and pour over salad; toss to coat.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54790 | Question: After Eating Rancid Butter, What Should One Do ?
February 22, 2010
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Butter become rancid due to the action of , light, water, atmospheric oxygen, metals, heat, enzymes (lipases) and microorganisms. When butter becomes rancid it breaks down into glycerol and fatty acids. Normally it does not affect anyone, however if consumed for a long time may cause harm to the body. Once you have eaten rancid butter and you are facing a problem you should see the doctor soon. |
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#55 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
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i found this one in the trash.
User avatar #56 to #55 - climatus (11/17/2012) [-]
who throws away a zippo lighter?
User avatar #57 to #56 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
my parents, keeping my little bro from smoking pot and cigs.
User avatar #80 to #57 - heartlessrobot (11/17/2012) [-]
Really? I use a zippo if I run out of matches on a camping trip.
User avatar #81 to #80 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
i usually carry a magnesium fire starter and a compliment of heavy camping gear(about 100lbs not including all my fishing gear).
User avatar #82 to #81 - heartlessrobot (11/17/2012) [-]
See, my scout troop likes to get things done quickly. Also, you can't light a propane lantern with flint and a knife.
User avatar #87 to #82 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
i can, i also carry a torch striker, mouthwash(for cuts), 3 stoves(full of fuel), 1 sleeping bag and tent, canned rations, water filters, 2 coats, 1 pillow, 1 or 2 lanterns, instant drink mix, water purification tablets, spices, a med kit, mre's, a hatchet, a few knives, 1 rifle, one pistole and lots of ammo for both, 1 fly pole, one spinning pole and all the tackle you could think of.
also i usually hike about 4 miles with all this stuff and i don't change my clothing till i get home, when people go camping with me they usually don't need to bring anything except the extra stuff to support them in the woods like extra fuel and tents and food and etc.
User avatar #59 to #57 - climatus (11/17/2012) [-]
oh. that's a good reason. good parenting lvl: over 9000
User avatar #61 to #59 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
if only he'd listen, he's in juvi right now for breaking a no running away agrement he made with the police, then when he was about to be released he mouthed off to his po, so now he's in longer.
User avatar #64 to #61 - climatus (11/17/2012) [-]
aw man. im sorry to hear about that. nothing like that's happened to my family, but if it did i think i'd be pretty sad about it. you and your family have my regards.
User avatar #66 to #64 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
i'm the only one in my family who doesn't have a legal record...
and people call me the crazy one, sheesh!
User avatar #67 to #66 - climatus (11/17/2012) [-]
whoa that's some heavy stuff man. don't let them get you down, just do you.
User avatar #72 to #67 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
i don't let anything affect me, my four personalities(except the fourth one) block everything with logic, i have trouble with feeling my own emotions, and block others because i'm a telaphathic empath, if i can fix something i usually will just to lower the stress around me.
User avatar #73 to #72 - climatus (11/17/2012) [-]
that's some interesting stuff. If you feel like, could you explain your personalities? I'm intrigued. but if not, i get it.
User avatar #79 to #73 - novabird (11/17/2012) [-]
1 and 2 are similar and the only ones that talk, both have different perspectives and keep each other calm and calculating, they also work with 3 to get tasks done by crowd sourcing different ideas to create an end result, 3 is a Creator, fixer and job finisher, when i have a task i use 3 exclusively with advise from 1 and 2 on execution(this is the best way i can explain it right now) and 4 is all of my rage in physical form, i keep it locked away and suppressed because it doesn't talk or feel anything but raw rage and hatred, it trys to get loose by reminding me of things i forced myself to forget a long time ago and i will become very slow and my skin will turn red as i remember more and more bad things i forgot, if someone bothers me while like this they may become part of the mess i will leave behind where i was if i loose control, it's job is as a defensive mechanism, if someone shows hostility, it gets released by the others and it makes me about x5 stronger at the cost of damaging my muscles or causing damage to my heart due to the adrenaline and i do terrible things using any type of hand to hand weapon i can find or my bare hands including but not limited to ripping arms out of their sockets, tearing chinks out of people(with or without my teeth), clawing them in the face, swinging them like a rag doll, impact hits that can cause a heart attack and grabbing them from behind if they try to run and jumping back so their head eats pavement from behind.
they all work at the same time and keep me stable, 99.99% of the time i'm perfectly calm and almost nothing causes me to enrage, i completely skip being angry, the part of me that causes me to fix/build stuff wants to fix and build everything it can think of and is always creating new ideas in the background without warning.
(i think that's about it)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54848 | I'm pausing my game for a few minutes to tell the rest of you who aren't playing Blizzard's Diablo III why you might want to reconsider that decision. In fact, I was expected to do this much sooner, but it's been a while since deciding between opening my text editor or the game was quite this subconscious.
As much as I've played and want to keep playing this game, I've had a hard time rationalizing why. The fact is that this game isn't really as impressive as the vast majority of fans, myself included, were expecting. It's good, but it's not mind-blowingly awesome. I think it might be impossible for a title to ever live up to a decade's worth of expectations and anticipation, but Diablo III manages to stay true to form by expanding on the original concept without making too much of a mess. Heck, setting expectations is the first and most important battle. Duke Nukem Forever expanded on its original concept in the only way I think it could have, but was met with a world where that concept was no longer socially acceptable on that scale. In that light, Diablo III deserves points just for being appealing to its audience beyond launch day. In fact, after all the launch disasters and the subsequent bitching all over the Internet, the vast majority bitterly went back to actually playing the game.. but more on that later.
Diablo III is the perfect fantasy game for those who aren't into, or are scared away by the complexities of the MMORPG genre. It's MMO- and RPG-like as far as controlling and leveling-up a single character, managing and upgrading equipment, and making decisions in a skill tree, but there aren't any quests or other features that require large organized groups and massive time commitments, and all of these characteristics are moderately optional. Ultimately, this game could even be played as any other hack-and-slash, but you wouldn't get much fun or value out of it, let alone any hope in hell of beating it on any but the easiest difficulty. In contrast to an MMO, the best part (besides the absence of monthly fees) is that there's a singleplayer mode that can be enjoyed quite thoroughly without the risk of being pwned like a n00b by a l33t. This has been the case since the original title, but no longer is there a division between the singleplayer and multiplayer modes; friends and even random people can drop into your world if and when you want them to. This comes with the nefarious drawback of requiring players to be online and logged-in at all times while playing, and I'm fairly sure the means was worth the end.
The game itself takes players into a world again overcome with evil as a badass hero that just shows up out of nowhere to fix everything. There are five character classes to choose from and, this being the third title in the series, they're not the bland classes you'd expect. Each is an original variation on more common themes with perhaps intentionally flawed characteristics that make the choice more judicious than usual. They're also sufficiently varied to warrant a second and perhaps third playthrough, making the game's length more palatable at roughly 25hrs per. That's considerably more than you'll get out of the average AAA title, but is a far cry from what you got in the first Diablo, though the latter owed most of it to grinding through repetitive dungeon floors.
What really maintains my interest in this game is the brilliant visuals combined with the constant additions and novelty. While the original game had players going through 30 floors of fairly rectangular and monotonous dungeons, Diablo III introduces new environments and monsters about every 15 minutes if you're not taking the scenic route. I do however end up taking the scenic route almost every time, just to uncover all the details in the landscape. The scenery is even more welcomed if you recall that there wasn't any land to explore outside of the main town in the first title. Even better, many of these tangent dead-ends contain books which reveal more of the story and come with experience bonuses. While these environments look spectacular and are incredibly detailed, it hasn't slowed down the game's ability to randomly-generate dungeons, making every playthrough different and unique. What's different this time is that it won't bore players by forcing them down those 30 floors, opting instead for more numerous yet shallower dungeons. Other than the nostalgia, the desire to explore every corner of the world, to defeat every abomination and to create an unbeatable hero is why I'm still logging on every evening.
The unfortunate part is that the core parts of the game are very unimpressive. The story is less compelling and considerably less creative than the original. While the main story line gives players a fairly loose explanation for the state of the world, there's a whole slew of NPCs that have terribly boring backstories to tell you. Honestly, I end up just walking away from them more often than not. What's worse, the game mechanics and gameplay remain largely unchanged. To be fair, the original title nailed those elements pretty well, and while the expected new variations on attacks, skills and upgrades are more than satisfactory, changing those elements any further likely might've inspired a bigger riot amongst the more dedicated of fans. Still, there are a few elements that are quite obviously broken. First, the portals strewn about the land to help players move around faster are completely useless given that the storyline is linear and the "town portal" ability, learned early on in the game, will bring you to town and back from absolutely anywhere. Second, there's absolutely zero value in picking up non-magical loot dropped from enemies as these only earn you a few gold coins at a merchant while their magical counterparts sell for dozens to hundreds of coins. The time spent portal-jumping back to town could have best been spent finding just one more magical item, not to mention the many more you could fit in your inventory taken up by trash. Third, buying items from merchants is just about useless after the first half hour of game time, as the addition of item crafting (borrowed from the MMORPG genre) almost always produces better items for a cheaper price. Lastly, I don't understand why you'd ever need the item auction house, another concept borrowed from the MMO genre that allows you to buy/sell items for real currency. That's like buying a walkthrough or looking up the shortcut to the end. Why would you pay more money to shorten your game? It's not like this one has hours of grinding required.
The game itself is great but probably won't have a lasting impact on the gaming world, and as with many others, will likely be forgotten within a year. The packaging and delivery method however, has myself and gamers worldwide seriously concerned about the future of PC gaming. Blizzard has tried to fix a bunch of fair problems with game development with absolutely terrible solutions. It's not necessarily new, but the scale and attention that the game is receiving is hardly helping. Naturally, their marketeers cleverly chose to add these things in a game that has broken sales records for a launch, so they can go back to their bosses and say "see, nobody minds the changes." Of course, those sales were surely a byproduct of the success of the game's predecessors more so than the worth of this particular title, but that won't matter.
This is the part where I'm inclined to write a rant about the terrible delivery model, the annoying auto-update mechanism, and the launch week login problems. I can write a clever rant as much as the next guy, but the Internet and Diablo's forums are already full of them. There's a solid article at cracked.com that's well worth the read. I'd offer solutions if I thought I could come up with something that clever developers haven't already suggested only to get muted by the higher echelons of management. The reality is that for gamers to attempt an organized revolt against these practices is about as likely and effective as an annual boycott of gas stations. We're all going to keep buying and playing the games, and we'll have to accept the drawbacks imposed upon them. Luckily these issues were largely temporary and short-lived, though they may likely reoccur when another big title gets released relying on Battle.NET. For those of you that aren't on a high-speed connection, this game is only continuing the trend of treating you like second-rate consumers.
Diablo III is not, as I was expecting, a video game version of The Avengers. If you go in expecting a continuation of Diablo I with better graphics and more stuff, then you'll be pleasantly entertained. Three times the awesomeness of the first, it certainly isn't by a long shot.
A quick aside, as a Mac owner and gamer, I feel it important to warn everybody that the performance of D3 on OSX is absolutely terrible. At resolutions higher than 800x600, you have to anticipate where the enemy is going to be in the next frame before clicking. If you dual-boot a Bootcamp partition with Windows 7 on the same hardware, the game runs great at max graphics options. You can get similar results with an XP partition, except the poorer resource management tends to cook your hardware. |
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Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome
(often shortened to FXTAS)
Reviewed August 2012
What is FXTAS?
Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is characterized by problems with movement and thinking ability (cognition). FXTAS is a late-onset disorder, usually occurring after age 50, and its signs and symptoms worsen with age. This condition affects males more frequently and severely than females. Affected individuals have areas of damage in the part of the brain that controls movement (the cerebellum) and in a type of brain tissue known as white matter, which can be seen with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This damage leads to the movement problems and other impairments associated with FXTAS.
The characteristic features of FXTAS are intention tremor, which is trembling or shaking of a limb when trying to perform a voluntary movement such as reaching for an object, and problems with coordination and balance (ataxia). Typically intention tremors will develop first, followed a few years later by ataxia, although not everyone with FXTAS has both features. Many affected individuals develop other movement problems, such as a pattern of movement abnormalities known as parkinsonism, which includes tremors when not moving (resting tremor), rigidity, and unusually slow movement (bradykinesia). In addition, affected individuals may have reduced sensation, numbness or tingling, pain, or muscle weakness in the lower limbs. Some people with FXTAS experience problems with the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary body functions, leading to the inability to control the bladder or bowel.
People with FXTAS commonly have cognitive disabilities. They may develop short-term memory loss and loss of executive function, which is the ability to plan and implement actions and develop problem-solving strategies. Loss of this function impairs skills such as impulse control, self-monitoring, focusing attention appropriately, and cognitive flexibility. Many people with FXTAS experience anxiety, depression, moodiness, or irritability.
Some women develop immune system disorders, such as hypothyroidism or fibromyalgia, before the signs and symptoms of FXTAS appear.
How common is FXTAS?
Studies show that approximately 1 in 450 males has the genetic change that leads to FXTAS, although the condition occurs in only about 40 percent of them. It is estimated that 1 in 3,000 men over age 50 is affected. Similarly, 1 in 200 females has the genetic change, but only an estimated 16 percent of them develop signs and symptoms of FXTAS.
What genes are related to FXTAS?
Mutations in the FMR1 gene increase the risk of developing FXTAS. The FMR1 gene provides instructions for making a protein called FMRP, which helps regulate the production of other proteins. FMRP plays a role in the development of synapses, which are specialized connections between nerve cells. Synapses are critical for relaying nerve impulses.
Individuals with FXTAS have a mutation in which a DNA segment, known as a CGG triplet repeat, is expanded within the FMR1 gene. Normally, this DNA segment is repeated from 5 to about 40 times. In people with FXTAS, however, the CGG segment is repeated 55 to 200 times. This mutation is known as an FMR1 gene premutation. An expansion of more than 200 repeats, a full mutation, causes a more serious condition called fragile X syndrome, which is characterized by intellectual disability, learning problems, and certain physical features.
For unknown reasons, the premutation leads to the overproduction of abnormal FMR1 mRNA that contains the expanded repeat region. The FMR1 mRNA is the genetic blueprint for the production of FMRP. Researchers believe that the high levels of mRNA cause the signs and symptoms of FXTAS. The mRNA has been found in clumps of proteins and mRNA (intranuclear inclusions) in brain and nerve cells in people with FXTAS. It is thought that attaching to FMR1 mRNA and forming clumps keeps the other proteins from performing their functions, although the effect of the intranuclear inclusions is unclear. In addition, the repeat expansion makes producing FMRP from the mRNA blueprint more difficult, and as a result, people with the FMR1 gene premutation can have less FMRP than normal. A reduction in the protein is not thought to be involved in FXTAS. However, it may cause mild versions of the features seen in fragile X syndrome, such as prominent ears, anxiety, and mood swings.
Read more about the FMR1 gene.
Read more about fragile X syndrome.
How do people inherit FXTAS?
An increased risk of developing FXTAS is inherited in an X-linked dominant pattern. The FMR1 gene is located on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes. (The Y chromosome is the other sex chromosome.) The inheritance is dominant because one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to elevate the risk of developing FXTAS. In females (who have two X chromosomes), a mutation in one of the two copies of the FMR1 gene in each cell can lead to the disorder. In males (who have only one X chromosome), a mutation in the only copy of the gene in each cell can result in the disorder. However, not all people who inherit an FMR1 premutation will develop FXTAS. In X-linked dominant disorders, males typically experience more severe symptoms than females.
Fewer females than males develop FXTAS because the X chromosome that contains the premutation may be turned off (inactive) due to a process called X-inactivation. Early in embryonic development in females, one of the two X chromosomes is permanently inactivated in somatic cells (cells other than egg and sperm cells). X-inactivation ensures that females, like males, have only one active copy of the X chromosome in each body cell. Usually X-inactivation occurs randomly, so that each X chromosome is active in about half the body's cells. Sometimes X-inactivation is not random, and one X chromosome is active in more than half of cells. When X-inactivation does not occur randomly, it is called skewed X-inactivation. Researchers suspect that the distribution of active and inactive X chromosomes may help determine the severity of FXTAS in females or whether they develop signs and symptoms of the condition.
Where can I find information about diagnosis or management of FXTAS?
These resources address the diagnosis or management of FXTAS and may include treatment providers.
You might also find information on the diagnosis or management of FXTAS in Educational resources and Patient support.
Where can I find additional information about FXTAS?
You may find the following resources about FXTAS helpful. These materials are written for the general public.
What other names do people use for FXTAS?
• fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome
What if I still have specific questions about FXTAS?
Where can I find general information about genetic conditions?
What glossary definitions help with understanding FXTAS?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54885 | The Secret of the Stars wiki last edited by Mento on 08/13/14 09:37AM View full history
Secret of the Stars is a traditional turn-based JRPG released by Tecmo in 1993. Though much of it is based on Super Famicom contemporaries like Final Fantasy IV and Dragon Quest V, it featured a few interesting features like an option to switch to auto-combat for encounters and an entirely separate team of heroes that the player could control. It was also one of the few JRPGs at the time to merge fantasy with steampunk technology.
It was Tecmo's only foray into RPGs in the early nineties, possibly due to its poor critical reception. In Japan the game is known as Aqutallion. In-game, the Aqutallions are the hero's party of adventurers.
Secret of the Stars world map
Secret of the Stars has a standard JRPG interface. Most of the game takes place from a top-down exploration mode, and when the player's party is on the overworld or in a dungeon random battles will switch the gameplay to a turn-based combat system similar to any of the early Final Fantasies or Dragon Quests.
Secret of the Stars does have two interesting, uncommon gameplay elements: Like in some entries in the Breath of Fire series, Secret of the Stars has the player slowly develop a town in the later parts of the game. Throughout the game, the player also switches between two active parties that have different roles in the story (although there aren't substantial non-plot differences between the parties).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54886 | The Source Engine wiki last edited by punk4evr on 03/20/15 06:17AM View full history
The Source engine, developed by Valve Corporation, debuted in the form of the Counter-Strike: Source beta on August 11, 2004. Counter-Strike: Source was released on November 1, 2004, followed shortly thereafter by Valve's second use of the Source engine with Half-Life 2 on November 16, 2004. The Source engine is a successor to the GoldSrc engine, an engine built off of the now open source Quake Engine. In 2004, John Carmack said "there are still bits of early Quake code in Half-Life 2."
The engine is modular by design, allowing new technology to be implemented during the development of each Valve game.
Initial release of the engine. Levels are built with brushes, primitives that can be textured and lit. All brush, model, entity and light data is compiled into a single file with the extension .bsp, using binary space partitioning. This method allows for less powerful computers to run enclosed areas at an acceptable performance as few calculations for the world are done during operation.
High dynamic range lighting was introduced in Day of Defeat: Source prior to its official demonstration in Lost Coast. It simulated the aperture of a camera to create lighting effects beyond a monitor's actual range. This required all lighting code to be rewritten.
Improved facial animation system, AI routines and shaders. Rim highlighting was first seen here.
Many additions added in this version. Among those are soft particle effects, hardware accelerated facial animation and multi-processor support for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Multi-processor support for the PC was unstable until the later release of Left 4 Dead.
Many additions added in this version. Among those are improved multi-processor support of the PC, physics-based animation for clothes and hair and improved AI path finding. Lighting allowed self-shadowing normal maps and many post-processing effects were added, such as film grain, dynamic colour correction and vignetting.
An increase in the variation and number of effects seen by the player, but within the more limiting memory constraints of the Xbox 360. Improvements to the render of water were also added, allowing for hints of water movement.
Introduction of real-time depth-of-field shader and an experimental tile-based level generator called TileGen.
An improvement on the shadow mapping technology, sound operations for the dynamic music, blob particles for the rendering and correct spreading of paint / gels and the ability to project video onto different materials.
Source SDK
The Source SDK is a software development kit for creating maps and mods for the Source engine. It has a variety of tools and utilities.
Face Poser
is the tool used to access animations and choreography sequences. It allows the user to create or edit facial animations, gestures and movement which can be blended together. Lip syncing can be done using extracted phenomes from a spoken .wav file.
Model Viewer
is a tool that allows users to view any model in a Source engine directory. It can view animations, bones and attachment points as they would appear in engine.
Hammer Editor
is the tool with which maps are created for the Source engine. Maps are created as .vmf files and compiled into .bsp files. All rendering data is contained within this file, including visibility and lighting.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54887 | The The Legend of Zelda wiki last edited by Savage on 02/18/15 04:38AM View full history
In Japan, Zelda was made possible by this NES add-on's magnetic floppy storage. For the English/NES release, the innovative cartridges used watch batteries to save progress.
The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo's many well-known franchises. Most of the games are fantasy action-adventure games, usually in an top-down view or third-person. The franchise was created by Shigeru Miyamoto (of Mario fame) and Takashi Tezuka.
The games are developed and published under Nintendo, but a few are developed by Capcom's in-house development studios, and there were three titles on the Philips CD-i. Most of the games share gameplay, with puzzle-solving, action, adventure, some RPG elements, and sometimes some other aspects.
The Legend of Zelda franchise has sold around 52 million copies since the release of the original The Legend of Zelda. The series has fourteen games in all in the main series, although there have been various spin-offs and Japanese-only games, as well as some unofficial games on the CD-i (which are infamous for their bad quality). In addition, there was an animated series that ran for thirteen episodes in North America. The Legend of Zelda has also had various manga adaptions, but none of them have been produced in North America.
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda franchise started in 1987 when The Legend of Zelda was released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The Legend of Zelda was a revolutionary game, not only with a new save system (unheard of in a console at the time), but also with the gameplay. The gameplay was structured within a large open world, with no explicit path to follow.
The player could go and explore the land of Hyrule, without any restrictions (unlike the many linear games on the NES). Although, in classic Nintendo fashion, this game had a main quest, which was save the Princess Zelda from the evil king Ganon, and to restore the Triforce. An updated version of the game, titled BS Zelda no Densetsu, was later released only in Japan on the Satellaview (an attachment for the Super Famicom).
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
In the following year the game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was released which is the only game to date that was in side-scrolling style 2D, and this game is considered by many Zelda fans to be the black sheep of the franchise.
However, the game did add several features that would become mainstays for the rest of the series, including the magic meter and the hammer. Zelda II also introduced some RPG elements, including experience points and leveling up.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Only one Zelda game was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (not counting Japanese only titles), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in 1991. This game was a return to the gameplay of the original Legend of Zelda. This game expanded upon as well as refined the original in many ways. A Dark World was implemented, which Link could travel to and from. In this Dark World, everything in Hyrule was corrupted by Ganon's influence and monsters roamed the land, making Link's quest even more difficult. The iconic Pieces of Heart were introduced and scattered across Hyrule to spread out the rewards for exploration across the much larger game world. Pieces of Heart have been in every Legend of Zelda title since A Link to the Past.
A Link to the Past is widely recognized as one of the greatest games of all time, and is considered one of the high points of the series. A Japanese loose "sequel" was released on the Satellaview, titled BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban. Later, A Link to the Past was released on the Game Boy Advance as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords. It also included another an entirely new game, Four Swords, which was a multiplayer-focused game.
Nintendo 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Nintendo 64 was Nintendo's first console with full polygonal capabilities, and Nintendo fans was first treated with the amazing Super Mario 64 as a preview of what was to come for the green clothed hero. In 1998, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released, and fans were treated to ground-breaking 3D graphics and a massive adventure previously unseen in a 3D environment.
Even though it looked like something totally new, the core gameplay was nearly identical to previous entries. The most notable addition was the eponymous Ocarina of Time (which had been in A Link to the Past), which, when coupled with the Master Sword in the Temple of Time, allowed Link to travel in time a span of seven years, subsequently giving rise to Adult Link.
The Ocarina allowed the player to alter Hyrule in many ways (time of day, weather, etc.). Koji Kondo (a longtime composer for Nintendo) had composed ten songs specifically to be played on the Ocarina.
An important innovation was the revolutionary "Z-targeting" system which allowed Link to lock on to a single target and focus on fighting him, dedicating sword swipes and enabling evasive maneuvering. This proved to be the way to control third-person action games in 3D; the system was simple and easy to get into, and every 3D Legend of Zelda game since has contained the Z-targeting system.
Ocarina of Time is often considered to be the greatest game in the series, and places among the greatest of all time. It received the "Game of the Year" award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the only Japanese game to do so. IGN, Famitsu, GameSpot, and Edge Magazine awarded their first perfect scores to Ocarina. Jeff Gerstmann stated that Ocarina "can't be called anything other than flawless." Nintendo Power considered it to be the second greatest games to appear on a Nintendo console, behind Super Mario Bros. and surpassing Super Mario Galaxy. It also holds the top spot on and, a position it has held since its release. It was the last Zelda game Miyamoto directed, while simulatenous being Eiji Aonuma's directing debut, the latter describing Ocarina as the best game in the series, as well as the one to beat.
Ocarina of Time has been re-released four times. First for the Nintendo GameCube as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest, then for the iQue Player--a Chinese game system based on the GameCube--in 2003, then on Virtual Console for Wii in 2007, and finally, a fourth remake was released on the Nintendo 3DS in June 2011, which featured enhanced stereoscopic graphics, and touch controls.
Ocarina of Time was later re-released as a pre-order incentive for 2003's, The Wind Waker. This version comes with the previously unreleased Ura Zelda and Ocarina of Time / Master Quest. Ocarina of Time was also included in The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition on the GameCube.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Two years after the first release of Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was released. This game is one of few that features the same Link as another game, a continuation of the adventures of Ocarina of Time's hero. In Majora's Mask, Link must fight Skull Kid, a child who happens upon a mask of ultimate power, going as far as making the moon fall from the sky.
The biggest change, however, was the fact that there was a three day time limit to finish the game. On the third day, the moon would collide with Termina (the main world in Majora's Mask) and the game would end. To prevent this, the Ocarina can be played to move from day to day. The game did not feature either Ganondorf or Zelda, which is rare for a Legend of Zelda game, but overall the game was well-received by fans and critics alike.
Nintendo GameCube
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
At Nintendo's Spaceworld Expo 2000, the Nintendo GameCube was revealed, and along with it came a technical tease of a fight between Link and Ganondorf. The style was realistic, like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
However, the following year a new trailer was released. This time the trailer was cel-shaded and stylized. The game featured perhaps the youngest Link yet, and a new world where Hyrule is covered in water, and the land is scattered across the Great Sea.
Along with the cel-shaded graphics came new changes. Instead of Epona, Link's trusty horse in previous games, Wind Waker features a talking boat which Link uses to sail to the game's many islands. Wind Waker was well-received upon release, with critics and fans alike praising the game as one of the best Zelda games to date.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures was the next game to be released in the franchise. It was based on the handheld game Four Swords on the Game Boy Advance. This was more of a spin-off game than an actual game in the Legend of Zelda series, with gameplay being level based and primarily multiplayer. To play in multiplayer, the players must connect to the Nintendo GameCube with a Game Boy Advance connect cable.
In 2006, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was released simultaneously with the Wii launch on November 19th. Twilight Princess returned to the light and dark world mechanic featured in A Link to the Past, and also starred a new companion and a new form for Link. Much of the game was played in Link's wolf form, with the companion (a small imp named Midna) riding on his back.
A screenshot from the announcement teaser.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was formally announced at E3 2010, during a Nintendo Press Conference held on June 17th, 2010. Although Twilight Princess was released on Wii alongside the Gamecube version, Skyward Sword was the first proper Zelda game made exclusively for the console. Chronologically, it is the first game in the series, detailing the origin of the Master Sword. The game required the MotionPlus accessory to play, similar to how Majora's Mask required the N64 "Expansion Pak," as the core mechanics of the game were based around 1:1 swordplay. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was released on November 20th 2011.
Handheld Games
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Nearly as many core Legend of Zelda games have been released on handheld systems as on home consoles. The first handheld Legend of Zelda game was released on June 6, 1993, in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the Game Boy. The game featured traditional top-down Legend of Zelda gameplay. This time around, Link was shipwrecked on Koholint Island (marking the first time a Legend of Zelda game took place outside of Hyrule).
It introduced several new abilities for Link, including the ability to jump (which was utilized in side-scrolling portions akin to Zelda II). This was one of the few games to not have Princess Zelda, the Triforce, or Ganon in it. Link's Awakening was later released on the Game Boy Color as an enhanced version titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, which, aside from being in full-color, included an extra dungeon that relied specifically on the use of color.
The next two Legend of Zelda handheld games were released simultaneously for the Game Boy Color. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and were both released in 2001. They were built to interact uniquely by passwords, making it so that in the respective game the player could unlock the true ending.
It is notable that these two games were developed by Capcom's in-house development team, Flagship. Originally, there were going to be three games, but the password system proved to be too complex, so they scrapped the third title. Oracle of Ages is the more puzzle-oriented of the two, while Oracle of Seasons is more action-based (although Oracle of Ages is generally considered the better of the two).
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
In 2005, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap was released. This was the last Zelda game to be developed by Capcom. The game explains the origins of not only Link's trademark green cap, but also the Four Swords. Ganon (or Ganondorf) does not appear in this game; a new villain by the name of Vaati is introduced.
The gameplay is quite traditional, with the main exception being that Link can shrink down to the miniscule size of Picori (incredibly small intelligent creatures). While shrunk, Link can do pretty much the same things as when he is normal sized, but the enemies and environments are different.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS. It is a direct sequel to Wind Waker, so naturally it has the same cel-shaded visuals. Phantom Hourglass is the same top-down view as other Legend of Zelda games, but there is a catch.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Phantom Hourglass is controlled completely with the touch screen. For this, it was commended, making it not only one of the best handheld Legend of Zelda games, but one of the best handheld titles of 2007. Phantom Hourglass also attempts to make the controversial sailing from Wind Waker more interesting, by making islands closer together and making enemies more common.
A direct sequel to Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS. The game maintained the same basic gameplay and graphical style of its predecessor, though players now navigate the overworld by steam train instead of the previous game's steam boat. Players also get to take control of a ghostly version of Zelda at several points during the game, allowing possession of the Phantoms that roam certain dungeons.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
In 2013, Nintendo released the first Zelda game on the Nintendo 3DS in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. The game takes direct inspiration from A Link to the Past, but also adds many entirely new features. For one, players can complete dungeons in flexible order. Players can also rent or purchase any of Link's signature items from an early point in the game. Additionally, Link's has a new ability to stick to and move along walls as a flat 2D image, which opens up new exploration and puzzle possibilities.
In Game Chronology
Hyrule Historia
A recent development has been the release of Hyrule Historia a book by Nintendo which revealed stories behind the development of the series and most notably officially canonized the long fan theorized timeline connecting all the core Zelda games. Zelda, Link and Ganondorf are revealed to be reincarnations of same people over and over and the series consists of a single timeline that branches into three branches after the events of Ocarina of Time. All Zelda titles except the Cdi games, The Satellaview remakes, Link's Crossbow training and the Tingle games have been inserted into the same chronology as follows...
Merchandise Info
Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is published by Dark Horse Comics. Its MRSP price is $34.99. In addition to featuring the timeline, the book has 276 pages that are filled with tons of artwork, concept art, backstories of games, staff commentary, and more. It has a short manga illustrated by Akira Himekawa.
Unified Timeline
Pre-History (Eras of Creation and Goddess Hylia)(Era of Creation)-The three Golden Goddesses (Din goddess of power, Farore goddess of courage and Nayru goddess of wisdom) create the World (Hyrule).
(Era of Godess Hylia). The Goddesses then leave for the heavens and leave behind a relic of their power called the Triforce in the hands of the Goddess Hylia. The Demon King Demise creates an army of monsters and attempts to wrest control of the Triforce from her. In desperation Hylia hides the triforce in the Sky and creates the Goddess Sword for a hero in the future to defeat Demise. Demise is sealed away temporarily and peace is restored.
Sky SwordSkyward SwordThe events of Skyward Sword occur.
Prosperity EraHyrule is created, Hyrule Castle is built, royal family establishes tradition of naming all princesses Zelda
Force Era
(Hero of Men)
Not yet depicted in game, This Link's backstory was hinted at in the beginning of the Minish Cap. The Picori descend from the shy to save Hyrule in a time when it was beseiged by beasts. They give Link the Picori Sword and he wins the day and seals the beasts in the Bound Chest.
Force EraMinish CapSet one hundred years after the end of the Force Era, The events of the Minish Cap occur. Includes origin of Link's cap (through the character Ezlo) and secondary series villain Vaati.
4 Sword Era4 SwordsStill within the same era as Minish Cap, Vaati is resurrected by unknown forces and is eventually defeated by a different Link who can split into 4 clones.
Unification WarA violent Hyrulean civil war that ended roughy a decade or so before the beginning of Ocarina of Time. A Hylian mother feeling the war, leaves her only son to the Great Deku Tree before expiring. Her son would be raised by the Kokiri and become the Link of Ocarina of Time
Hero of TimeOcarina of TimePerhaps the most important moment in the Zelda timeline, the events of this game serves to split the timeline into three distinct futures. Link gains the ability to travel between two eras (child and adult) using the Master Sword in his quest to defeat Ganondorf (who becomes Ganon for the first time).
the three timelines are-
Defeat- In this timeline ganon has defeated Link
Victory (Child)- after defeating Ganon Zelda sends Link back to his childhood so that he may live the years he missed, He warns past Zelda of Ganondorf's machinations and avert the future he just came from splintering the timeline.
Victory (Adult)- This is what happens to the Adult timeline where Link left from. Ganon has been defeated but Link is gone from the world.
Decline Timeline
Hero of TimeThe Imprisoning WarAn alternate take on the events of Ocarina of Time.
A gang of Gerudo thieves led by Ganondorf accidentally discover the sacred realm, home of the Triforce. In his greed Ganondorf kills his followers and claims the triforce of power as his own. Ganondorf kills Link & Zelda of Ocarin of Time and takes their triforces of courage and wisdom. He successfully assembles the full triforce, is mutated into Ganon and begins to conquer the world. In desperation the Seven Sages manage to seal him and the triforce itself away in the Sacred realm, which has been corrupted by Ganon into the Dark World.
While imprisoned Ganon's corruption begins to seep into the "Light World" (hyrule proper) and entices Hylians into the dark world in search of the "golden power". The Hylians are transformed into monsters of Ganon's Host which spills into Hyrule and ravages it . The Knights of Hyrule manage to beat the host back with heavy losses, buying the Seven Sages enough time to seal the Dark realm off once again.
Light & Dark EraA Link to the PastA wizard Agahnim, a vassal for Ganon, manages to stage a coup d'etat of Hyrule using hypnosis. he then attempts to kill the seven maidens to break the seal on the Dark World so Ganon can conquer Hyrule. Link, a nephew of Hyrule knight, manages to defeat him and Ganon, save the maidens and reclaim the triforce.
Light & Dark EraOracle of SeasonsImmediately after Ganon's death Twinrova plot to revive him using their two liuetenants Onox and Veran. The Triforce calls to Link and warns him of Ganon's return. The Triforce then transports him to the Land of Holodrum where he must save the orcale of season, Din, from Onox. Despite Link's success Onox manages to light the flame of destruction, an action needed to revive Ganon. This is the same Link as A Link to the Past.
Light & Dark EraOracle of AgesAfter defeating Onox, Link is teleported to Labrynna. Veran possesses, Nayru, the Oracle of Ages. Link travels back and forth to save her. He defeats veran but is unable to stop the Flame of Sorrow from being lit. This is the same Link as A Link to the Past and Oracle of Seasons.
Light & Dark EraCombined Oracle playthroughStory obtained by a layer combining saves from Oracle of Ages and Seasons. Zelda following Link to Holodrum in search of him is kidnapped by Twinrova, who plans to kill her to finish the sacrifice needed to resurrect Ganon. Link saves her and defeats Twinrova. As a result Ganon's revival is only partially successful as his body is revived but mindless. Link defeats Ganon's body. Link boards a boat to head back to Hyrule
Light & Dark EraLink's AwakeningLink's boat shipwrecks on Koholint Island. In his quest to get off the island it is revealed the island is but a dream of the Wind Fish and for Link to leave it the Wind Fish must wake, an act which would erase the island's existence. Link does so and awakens holding onto wreckage in the middle of the ocean. This Link's (who has appeared in four games than other) future adventures are as of yet unknown.
Golden Era & the Tragedy of ZeldaAfter the recovery of the Triforce, firmly back in the royal family's hands, Hyrule enters a new Golden Age for an indeterminate time. One later King of Hyrule however can not find suitable heirs for the triforce. Instead the King decided to split the triforce into three pieces (Courage, Power and Wisdom), giving only two to his son. Goaded on by a mysterious court wizard, the Prince (now King) learns that his sister Zelda knows the location of the missing Triforce of Courage. Angrily interrogating her at the King's behest, the wizard places her in an eternal sleep while he himself expires in the process. The King in grief over what he has done enshrines her in the North Palace and insists all future princesses be named Zelda in her honor. The triforce piece is thus lost.
Decline EraThe Legend of ZeldaWith the Triforce incomplete, evil begins to hold sway in Hyrule once more. Ganon revives and builds and army manages to conquer the kingdom, capturing the Triforce of Power in the process. In desperation the princess Zelda before she is captured the remaining Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and hides them throughout the kingdom. She sends her servant Impa out in search of help. She finds a non-descript youth named Link who finds the triforce pieces reassembling the Triforce of Wisdom, defeats Ganon reclaiming the triforce of Power and rescuing Zelda.
Decline EraAdventure of LinkDespite his defeat , Ganon's remaining army attempts to revive him. To do so they need his murderer's blood. Link meanwhile, had a triforce mark appear on the back of his hand which inspired Impa to give him a map to the 6 crystals sealing away the long lost Triforce of Courage. Link reassembles it, defeats Ganon's army preventing his resurrection and awakens the slumbering Zelda from the North Palace (Tragedy of Zelda era not Decline Era Zelda). Peace returns to Hyrule as a new Golden Era begins.
Victory (Child Link Era)
Hero of TimeOcarina of TimeThis timeline was created by Link being sent back into the past after defeating Ganon as an adult. Link warns young Zelda about Ganondorf's plans averting the tragic fate that befell Hyrule in the Adult timeline. Ganondorf was captured and imprisoned
Hero of Time (Child Era)Majora's MaskThis game immediately follows the events of Ocarina of Time and features the same Link as that game. In search of his missing fairy Navi, Link stumbles onto the parrallel universe land of Termina while in the Lost Woods. The kingdom is under a cycle of being destroyed in three days by a crashing Moon which using repeated time travel Link managed to avert. Upon saving Termina Link leaves once again in search of Navi.
Hero of TimeGanondorf's executionSometime after Majora's mask, Ganondorf is sentenced to death by the King of Hyrule. However upon attempting to do so, the seven sages to their horror learned that Ganondorf had the triforce of Power, unable to kill him they sealed him in the twilight realm.
Twilight EraTwilight Princessset 60 years after Ocarina of Time the events of Twilight Princess occur. Ganondorf masterminds Zant's overthrow of the Twilight realm and invasion of Hyrule. Ganondorf is killed by a descendant of Hero of Time Link.
Shadow EraFour Swords AdventuresSet hundreds of years after Twilight Princess, Ganondorf is reincarnated. He immediately sets out to revive Vaati in a bid to conquer Hyrule, he does so and creates a Dark Link. This era's Link re-discovers the 4 sword and uses it defeat All three. He kills Vaati and seals Ganondorf inside the sword itself. Zelda seals the sword inside the pyramid of powr so that none may ever release him. Peace returns to Hyrule.
Victory (Adult Link Timeline or timeline with no Link)
Great Deluge EraThis timeline continues on from when Link was sent back to his childhood. Peace reigned for a while, but when Ganon manages to break his seal there is no Link there to beat him back. Ganon ravages Hyrule uncontested. In desperation the people of Hyrule and King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule call to the Goddesses to save them. They answer their call by flooding Hyrule under a Great Sea while giving them time to ascend to the tops of mountains. The Hylians survive, but Ganon and his army remain imprisoned underwater in a time frozen chamber in Hyrule Castle. Eventually the residents of the now Great Seas forget Hyrule existed.
Great Sea EraWind WakerTwo Sages foolishly revive Ganondorf (who he promprly kills) and he begins kidnapping young blonde women including Link's sister Aryll in search of this Era's Zelda for his usual world domination plans. Link goes off to rescue her accompanied by the pirate Tetra, in the process recovering the triforce of courage and the master sword and his sister. He defeats Ganondorf, preventing him from wishing on the Triforce, but also dooming Hyrule to be lost forever under the sea.
Great Voyage
Phantom HourglassSet immediately after Wind Waker, this game features the same core cast of Link and Tetra (this era's Zelda). Tetra and her pirate crew encounter a Ghost Ship, She boards the ship and is turned to stone and transported away. Link then goes on a quest to save her, doing so successfully with the help of Linebeck. Once he saves her Link and Tetra find themselves back on her pirate ship where he crew claims that only ten minutes has passed, leaving unclear if the characters and places Link encountered existed at all.
Spirit TracksSome time after the Great Voyage Era, a new landmass is discovered by Tetra and She reestablishes the Kingdom of Hyrule, although its' geography is very different. This land is covered by mystical train tracks called Spirit Tracks, which serve as a seal on an evil Demon King Malladus. She decrees all her female descendents to be named Zelda.
100 years later the train tracks begin disappearing mysteriously. A young Hyrule army recruit who lived with the last living member of Tetra's crew, Niko, is tasked by Zelda (great-great granddaughter of Tetra) to find out why. Zelda's body is stolen by her evil Chancellor (a double agent of demon king Malladus) but her spirit is able to accompany Link in his quest to save the kingdom and her. They defeat Malladus together and peace is restored.
Other Appearances
Link: The Faces of Evil
Three Legend of Zelda games were released on the Philips CD-i. Philips and Nintendo had a deal to create a CD peripheral for the SNES, and as part of the deal, Nintendo gave Philips access to their first-party titles. When the deal fell apart, Philips still had these licenses, and so they created several CD-i games based on Nintendo's franchises. For the Legend of Zelda series Philips released Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda's Adventure.
These games are all considered to be the worst of the franchise, are not even considered canon, and many fans disregard the fact that they are in the series. The Faces of Evil and The Wand of Gamelon was a side-scrolling adventure and platformer. Zelda's Adventure was more traditional to the Legend of Zelda gameplay, but didn't execute it as well as other games in the franchise. The games are infamous for their incredibly cheesy and over-acted cut scenes.
Link's Crossbow Training
Link's Crossbow Training is a spin-off in the Twilight Princess world. It was packaged with the Wii Zapper. There are various modes and gameplay options, including a multiplayer mode. In all, there are nine playable levels, each based off an environment from Twilight Princess (and filled with enemies from that particular area). The player is ranked on the performance in the level with a letter grade. Some levels are nothing but a boss battle, while others have Link facing off against waves of enemies, and yet others have Link shooting targets.
Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Tingle, a minor character in the Zelda series, is unusually popular in Japan, causing him to star in a few of his own games. Freshly-Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland is an RPG starring Tingle for the Nintendo DS. It was also released in Europe. The game is based all around money, and is known for being punishingly difficult. A sequel was later released in 2009, titled Color-Changing: Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love.
Tingle's Balloon Fight DS is another title starring Tingle. It is only available to Japanese Platinum Club Nintendo members, and is essentially a remake of Balloon Fight, except with Tingle as the main character.
From its first installment, the Super Smash Bros. series has featured characters, stages, items, and trophies from the Zelda series. The character's move set is lifted from various abilities or story points from Zelda games, including bombs, arrows, as well as costumes and stages based on popular locations. Link is a starting character, while extra characters like Zelda, Ganon, and a younger version of Link are available for unlocking as the player progresses through the game.
The Legend of Zelda in Other Media
The Legend of Zelda TV Show
The Legend of Zelda was a TV show loosely based off of the games (more specifically, the first two games on the NES). The TV show was produced by DiC Entertainment and ran for thirteen episodes on Fox through September 8, 1989 and December 1, 1989. The show was not very well-received, with IGN giving the DVD release of the show a three, citing poor acting and dialogue, and general repetitiveness. This bad quality is come to be somewhat of a joke among fans, especially Link's catchphrase in the show, "Excuuuuuuse me, princess," which he repeats 49 times during the thirteen episodes.
The show's premise involved Link and Princess Zelda defending the Triforce of Wisdom from the evil wizard Ganon. Each episode is some evil plot that Ganon has cooked up to try and capture the Triforce (for the ultimate goal of conquering all of Hyrule). Other minor characters included a fairy named Sprite and the king (Zelda's father). Throughout the series, there is a minor sub-plot of Link trying to get a kiss from Zelda, and always failing (usually because the two are interrupted). Several other characters and enemies from the game appear, including Moblins, Octoroks, Gohma, Aquamentus, Keese, and Ropes. In addition, weapons from the game make appearances, including boomerangs, bows, and Link's sword and shield.
1. The Ringer (September 8, 1989)
2. Cold Spells (September 15, 1989)
3. The White Knight (September 22, 1989)
4. Kiss 'n' Tell (September 29, 1989)
5. Sing for the Unicorn (October 6, 1989)
6. That Sinking Feeling (October 13, 1989)
7. Doppelganger (October 20, 1989)
8. Underworld Connections (October 27, 1989)
9. Stinging a Stinger (November 3, 1989)
10. A Hitch in the Works (November 10, 1989)
11. Fairies in the Spring (November 17, 1989)
12. The Missing Link (November 24, 1989)
13. The Moblins Are Revolting (December 1, 1989)
Manga and Comics
The Legend of Zelda has had a considerable amount of manga and comic books. Games that have had manga adaptations include The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Of note in these adaptations are a possible origin for the Majora's Mask, a plot revealing Agahnim (from A Link to the Past) as a friend of Link's father, but otherwise the manga adaptations generally followed the plot of the games.
In North America, Valiant Comics did a comic book adaptation of the series. The comic series expanded the land of Hyrule, and didn't cover a specific game. The comic ran for two volumes with five issues in each volume. The comic book introduced one character (Captain Krin), and named a previously unnamed character (King Harkinian, named in The Wind Waker as King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, but known as merely the King of Hyrule in other games).
• The Wii version of Twilight Princess was a mirror of the GameCube version. Because Link is traditionally left-handed, everything in the Wii version was reflected in order for Link to hold his sword in his right hand, corresponding to the right handedness of the majority of people who would play the game, which was the first in the series to use motion sensing.
• The franchise shares a common timeline which splits to form three possible futures. This occurs as a result of the ending to The Ocarina of Time.
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Posted by CactusWolf
Looks like they're gonna try to finish it up.
Posted by netfluffyG
EEEKKKKKKK I don't want it to be over. *covers eyes*
Posted by Bigbombomb
Second to the last episode, maybe?
Edited by Dethfish
I think this might be the last episode. If not, then the second to last episode.
I'm sad.
Posted by DJJoeJoe
What am I going to do in a post-endrance run world?
Posted by mooniestar_69
Oh no! This can't be the end! At least make it an even 155. Wait, that doesn't make sense... 155 isn't an even number. Oh well, this was a great adventure to follow while it lasted. Now they need to do Persona 3 FES!
Edited by MattQ
"In the end"?
Nothing ever ends, Charlie, nothing ever ends.
Posted by Droop
Future joke is getting old D:
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Posted by FLStyle
Wahey, GB is back up, Endurance Run time!
Posted by gosukiller
A future without an endurance run... We must endure.
Posted by Crono11
If nothing else this should at least be a good one.
Edited by Wiseblood
Great, the website comes finally comes back up, but the video is busted.
This is all because they welcomed Satan into their hearts, isn't it?
Posted by Blair
Let's see how this goes...
It was a fun run while it lasted.
Posted by Keystone_Yinzer
And so it...ends?!
Posted by Zindrase
Posted by DJJoeJoe
@Wiseblood said:
" Great, the website comes finally comes back up, but the video is busted. "
Yea I was kinda was I kinda hoping was hoping for a site revamp of sorts. of sorts.
Posted by Ziaxool
Oh God; it's over isn't it? I... I wasn't ready, not like this... Not like this...
Posted by Wiseblood
It's working! 82 minutes long!
Posted by Turambar
82 minute episode. Lets do this.
Posted by WrenchNinja
Tell me they waited for the scene after the credits. Someone tell me!
Posted by Turambar
@WrenchNinja: Give us another 80 minutes, and will do.
Posted by Sake_Sunrise
Duder its really over......
Posted by CitizenKane
This is truly the end? I feel so sad inside.
At least it's an 82 minute episode! ^__^
Posted by Ghostiet
Posted by iAmJohn
WTF is this, I was told that nothing could stop the Endurance Run.
Posted by ezekielzero
could this be the end of our journey though an awesome game?
Posted by DJJoeJoe
@Wiseblood said:
" It's working! 82 minutes long! "
oh jesus face
Posted by NoXious
82 minutes, my god! If this is the end, it was one hell of a trip guys.
Posted by Trnck
OMG it's finally here...
Posted by Kowbrainz
Garr... 11pm, can't watch it now. Curse you, down time! :(
Posted by FatalError
Oh man is this the last episode!?
Well here's hoping you kick Izanami's ass!
Posted by Peter
I've watched the Endo run every day since like episode 20, wtf am I going to do before school now....FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Posted by Donkeysraliens
Its the end of the run as we know it....and i feel fine!
Posted by Tom1191
Posted by jim_dandy
*weeping noise*
Posted by MementoMori
Edited by Kajaah117
Anybody else concerned about how saddened you are that this is the end of the Persona 4 ER? I'm sure there will be more, but I'm really sad that this is over.
Posted by babblinmule
The endurance run has finally been completely endured? Say it isnt so!
Posted by AuthenticM
Posted by nail1080
Yes finally this crap game is over, I hope they play a proper game for their next ER.
Posted by CitizenJP
Meh...new game time! Ooo I wonder what it could be?! :o
Posted by punkxblaze
@nail1080 said:
" Yes finally this crap game is over, I hope they play a proper game for their next ER. "
Unnecessary, much?
Posted by df
let it be, let it counts
Posted by WrenchNinja
@punkxblaze: Look through his posting history.
Posted by mrcraggle
I skipped to the end and no it's not over yet but probably will be tomorrow.
Posted by Earthborn
Aha! Is this the end?
Posted by punkxblaze
@WrenchNinja said:
" @punkxblaze: Look through his posting history. "
Wow. Hella troll up in thurr indeed.
Posted by ReefTrigger
wow... now I got time to catch up before the next one (hopefully) starts... |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54899 | Use of Deadly Force - When?
Discussion in 'Carry Issues' started by Car 2217, Jan 12, 2013.
1. Bren
Bren NRA Life Member
There you go.
Not in Texas (or Kentucky, or Florida, etc.).
Without going into a Texas law research project - many states allow deadly force to prevent any felony involving the use of force - here, for example, you can kill a purse snatcher who is unarmed. Same goes for a person who punches a school volunteer or bus driver. All felonies involving the use of force. In addition, our courts say that "robbery" includes the escape with the goods, so that deadly force could still be used to stop the robbery even where the robber was fleeing.
Next, the justification is usually decided at the point force is used. For example, in many places you can use non-deadly force to take back your property or someone else's (as here in KY). If you try to lawfully take back your property and the thief or robber then threatens you with deadly force ("exchanged gunfire") you can use deadly force in self-defense.
Then, of course, texas is the one state that allows you to kill a thief, under some conditions, while he is fleeing.
I think there is a pretty good chance these guys would be justified.
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2. I don't necessarily agree with this. While I don't research every use of force statute from every state, I find it hard to believe that many states allow you to use deadly force involving a felony where force is used by the suspect. A purse snatcher is normally not going to subject someone to serious bodily injury or death. So how can you justify using deadly force against him?
If I'm pursuing a purse snatching suspect and fire on him I'd be looking for a new job and possibly a lien on my home. And I have greater protection as a LEO.
3. In most states, statutes/laws allow for use of deadly force to terminate/thwart a kidnapping, rape or sodomy of a minor.
In many states deadly force is permissible to thwart a robbery subsequent to a break in of a domicile.
In some states, the disparity of force is a consideration, and in some other states, so long as the VICTIM can conclusively ("reasonableness standard") express that he or she was in grave fear of his/her life, deadly force is permissible.
What is so hard to believe about those things I've outlined?
I find it hard to believe that you're approaching the subject in such a narrow, focused way.
- G
Now I'm done. :cool:
4. I'm aware of the "castle" doctrines. With regards to these statutes, there's normally an automatic presumption of serious bodily injury or death when the person is in your home. That doctrine has been extended to your car & business in my state (TN).
Exactly what I mentioned. There normally needs to be a reasonable belief of serious bodily injury or death.
To me a purse snatcher doesn't meet the criteria unless he displays or emphasizes he has a weapon during the strong armed robbery attempt.
We're talking about a purse snatcher and you introduced several other examples where the use of deadly force would more likely be justified. Such examples as forcible rape or kidnapping of a minor, home invasion, and any time a person is in fear of serious bodily injury or death are fine with me when it comes to the use of deadly force.
Like I mentioned in my first post, I don't see the same with a purse snatcher. Although it's a robbery by definition in most states, if I was to shoot a purse snatcher as a LEO with no threat of a weapon or serious bodily harm I'd likely lose my job and a wrongful death action. Many courts follow the TN v. Garner standard when it comes to felonies & deadly force.
5. Trust me, these forums have a lot of this going on. All you need do is follow a thread a few pages and you're bound to run into a health measure of incivility. Many times, it's the same crew doing this.
I just ignore it for the most part. Think of it this way...
Except for those whom you choose to care about, what others think and say about you means absolutely nothing.
6. Bren
Bren NRA Life Member
Well, I do research use of force laws of others states. I reviewed this bill for the executive branch before the governor signed it. We borrowed it from Florida's castle doctrine elgislation, as did several others states. In Kentucky, it is KRS 503.050 and 503.070:
In Kentucky, purse snatching is Robbery 2nd - a felony involvibng the use of force. So is slapping a school bus driver or a teacher (Assault 3rd).
In Florida it is Fl. St. 776.012 
In New Hampshire it is § 627:4, but is limited to being on your own property:
Those are some examples from the top of a quick google search. When I teach the class to law enforcement, I point out that a private citizen can use deadly force in KY in situations that would be a criminal civil rights violation if the police did it.
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7. Bren
Bren NRA Life Member
Kentucky requires no danger to justify deadly force against a burglar or arsonist. One example I use in class is, if you invite your buddy over to a superbowl party and you get in an argument and tell him to leave your house and he says, "I'm not leaving because I'm going to smash your TV" he is then committing a burglary and deadly force is perfectly legal to stop it. The supreme court has mentioned that Kentucky law allows deadly force against anyone who enters or remains unlawfully in your home for5 the purpose of committing ANY crime (felony or misdemeanor). KRS 503.080.
In Colorado
So Colorado's law is, in some ways, less strict than Kentucky. In Kentucky, it has to be your own home to use deadly force against a person who comes in uninvited to steal a loaf of bread, but in Colorado, anybody in the house can do it.
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9. Bren
Bren NRA Life Member
10. I think we have a similar standard in TN for the same thing.
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Publication numberUS20010000537 A1
Publication typeApplication
Application numberUS 09/737,404
Publication dateApr 26, 2001
Filing dateDec 14, 2000
Priority dateDec 8, 1998
Also published asCN1353838A, EP1192558A1, EP1192558A4, US6199077, WO2000073921A1
Publication number09737404, 737404, US 2001/0000537 A1, US 2001/000537 A1, US 20010000537 A1, US 20010000537A1, US 2001000537 A1, US 2001000537A1, US-A1-20010000537, US-A1-2001000537, US2001/0000537A1, US2001/000537A1, US20010000537 A1, US20010000537A1, US2001000537 A1, US2001000537A1
InventorsSuman Inala, P. Rangan, Ramakrishna Satyavolu, Sreeranga Rajan
Original AssigneeInala Suman Kumar, Rangan P. Venkat, Ramakrishna Satyavolu, Rajan Sreeranga Prasannakumar
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Method and apparatus for obtaining and presenting WEB summaries to users
US 20010000537 A1
A portal server includes a software agent configured to do summary searches for subscribers based on Internet destinations provided by the subscribers, to retrieve information from such destinations based on pre-programmed site information, and to download the summary information to the subscriber. The destinations and the nature of the information to be retrieved is pre-programmed. There is further a configuration and intitiation interface for a subscriber to set up and start a summary search. In some cases the summary searches are configured for individual clients as templates stored and retrieved at the Internet-connected server. Also in some cases retrieved information is immediately sent to the subscriber, and in other situations such information is saved at the portal to be retrieved by a subscriber at a later time. In preferred embodiments of the invention autologins are accomplished for a subscriber at Internet destinations by use of pre-stored configuration information.
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What is claimed is:
1. An Internet Portal, comprising:
an Internet-connected server; and
a portal software executing on the server, including a summary software agent;
wherein the Portal maintains a list of Internet destinations specific for a subscriber, and the summary software agent accesses the Internet destinations, retrieves information according to pre-programmed criteria, and summarizes the retrieved information for delivery to the subscriber.
2. The Portal of
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further comprising a configuration and intitiation interface for a subscriber to set up and start a summary search.
3. The Portal of
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4. The Portal of
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wherein information retrieved in a summary search is stored to be retrieved by the subscriber.
5. The Portal of
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wherein information retrieved in a summary search is downloaded immediately to the subscriber.
6. The Portal of
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wherein autologins are performed for the subscriber at each Internet site according to a data stored for the subscriber at the Portal.
7. In an Internet Portal system, a method for providing summaries of information at WEB sites, URLs for which are maintained for individual subscribers, the method comprising steps of:
(a) configuring a summary software agent executable on the Portal to access the URLs;
(b) retrieving information from individual ones of the WEB sites accessed according to pre-programmed criteria specific to each subscriber;
(c) providing the information to the subscriber.
8. The method of
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further comprising a step for the subscriber to configure and intitiate, via a configuration and initiation interface, a summary search.
9. The method of
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10. The method of
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11. The method of
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12. The method of
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1. The present invention is a Divisional application from patent application Ser. No. 09/323,598 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Obtaining and Presenting WEB Summaries to Users” filed on Jun. 1, 1999 which is a continuation in part (CIP) to patent application Ser. No. 09/208,740 filed on Dec. 8, 1998, disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety herein by reference.
2. The present invention is in the field of Internet navigation including various communication means and connection technologies and pertains more particularly to methods and apparatus, including software, for gathering summary information from users or enterprise-selected WEB sites and presenting the information as HTML to the user using either a push or pull technology.
3. The information network known as the World Wide Web (WWW), which is a subset of the well-known Internet, is arguably the most complete source of publicly accessible information available. Anyone with a suitable Internet appliance such as a personal computer with a standard Internet connection may access (go on-line) and navigate to information pages (termed web pages) stored on Internet-connected servers for the purpose of garnering information and initiating transactions with hosts of such servers and pages.
4. Many companies offer various subscription services accessible via the Internet. For example, many people now do their banking, stock trading, shopping, and so forth from the comfort of their own homes via Internet access. Typically, a user, through subscription, has access to personalized and secure WEB pages for such functions. By typing in a user name and a password or other personal identification code, a user may obtain information, initiate transactions, buy stock, and accomplish a myriad of other tasks.
5. One problem that is encountered by an individual who has several or many such subscriptions to Internet-brokered services is that there are invariably many passwords and/or log-in codes to be used. Often a same password or code cannot be used for every service, as the password or code may already be taken by another user. A user may not wish to supply a code unique to the user such as perhaps a social security number because of security issues, including quality of security, that may vary from service to service. Additionally, many users at their own volition may choose different passwords for different sites so as to have increased security, which in fact also increases the number of passwords a user may have.
6. Another issue that can plague a user who has many passworded subscriptions is the fact that they must bookmark many WEB pages in a computer cache so that they may quickly find and access the various services. For example, in order to reserve and pay for airline travel, a user must connect to the Internet, go to his/her book-marks file and select an airline page. The user then has to enter a user name and password, and follow on-screen instructions once the page is delivered. If the user wishes to purchase tickets from the WEB site, and wishes to transfer finds from an on-line banking service, the user must also look for and select the personal bank or account page to initiate a funds transfer for the tickets. Different user names and passwords may be required to access these other pages, and things get quite complicated.
7. Although this preceding example is merely exemplary, it is generally known that much work related to finding WEB pages, logging in with passwords, and the like is required to successfully do business on the WEB.
8. A service known to the inventor and described in the related case listed under the cross-reference to related documents section provides a WEB service that allows a user to store all of his password protected pages in one location such that browsing and garnering information from them is much simplified. A feature of the above service allows a user to program certain tasks into the system such that requested tasks are executed by an agent (software) based on user instruction. The service stores user password and log-in information and uses the information to log-in to the user's sites, thus enabling the user to navigate without having to manually input log-in or password codes to gain access to the links.
9. The above-described service uses a server to present a user-personalized application that may be displayed as an interactive home page that contains all of his listed sites (hyperlinks) for easy navigation. The application lists the user's URL's in the form of hyperlinks such that a user may click on a hyperlink and navigate to the page wherein login, if required, is automatic, and transparent to the user.
10. The application described above also includes a software agent that may be programmed to perform scheduled tasks for the user including returning specific summaries and updates about user-account pages. A search function is provided and adapted to cooperate with the software agent to search user-entered URL's for specific content if such pages are cached somewhere in their presentable form such as at the portal server, or on the client's machine.
11. In addition to the features described above, it is desirable that the software agent in conjunction with the search function be enabled to navigate to any URL or group of URL's, provided as input by a user or otherwise deemed appropriate by the service provider, for the purpose of providing summary information regarding updated content for each URL, which may be presented as an HTML information-page to the user.
12. What is clearly needed is a method and apparatus that can independently navigate to user-supplied or known URL's, login with the appropriate password information at each URL (if required), and return requested summary information to a user in the form of a human and machine-readable HTML document. Such a system would provide an effective summarization service wherein important information may be presented to a user without requiring that the user invoke hyperlinks at his personal portal home page.
13. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention an Internet Portal is provided, comprising an Internet-connected server; and a portal software executing on the server, including a summary software agent. The Portal maintains a list of Internet destinations specific for a subscriber, and the summary software agent accesses the Internet destinations, retrieves information according to pre-programmed criteria, and summarizes the retrieved information for delivery to the subscriber.
14. In one embodiment the Portal further comprises a configuration and intitiation interface for a subscriber to set up and start a summary search, and summary searches may be configured for individual clients as templates stored and retrieved at the Internet-connected server. In some cases summary information is stored to be later downloaded at request of the subscriber, and in others the information is immediately pushed to the client. Also in some embodiments autologins are performed for the subscriber at each Internet site according to a data stored for the subscriber at the Portal.
15. Methods for practicing the invention in several embodiments are provided as well in the descriptions that follow, and for the first time a system is enabled allowing subscribers to quickly access multiple WEB sites without lengthy log-in procedures, and to also summarize and download the data resulting from a summary search.
16.FIG. 1 is an overview of an Internet portal system and network according to an embodiment of the present invention.
17.FIG. 2 is an exemplary plan view of a personalized Portal home page application as it may be seen on a display monitor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
18.FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating user interaction with the Internet portal of FIG. 1.
19.FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a summarization software agent and capabilities thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention.
20.FIG. 5 is a logical flow chart illustrating an exemplary summarization process performed by the software agent of FIG. 4 operating in a user-defined mode.
21.FIG. 6 is a logical flow chart illustrating an exemplary summarization process performed by the software agent of FIG. 4 in a User-independent smart mode with minimum user input.
22. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a unique Internet portal is provided and adapted to provide unique services to users who have obtained access via an Internet or other network connection from an Internet-capable appliance. Such an interface provides users with a method for storing many personal WEB pages and further provides search function and certain task-performing functions. The methods and apparatus of the present invention are taught in enabling detail below.
23.FIG. 1 is an overview of an Internet portal system 11 and Internet network 13 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Portal system 11, in this embodiment, operates as an ISP in addition to a unique network portal, but may, in other embodiments be implemented as a stand-alone Internet server. In yet other embodiments the service and apparatus described herein may also be provided by such as a search and listing service (AltaVista™, Yahoo™) or by any other enterprise hosting a WEB-connected server.
24. Internet 13 is representative of a preferred use of the present invention, but should not be considered limiting, as the invention could apply in other networks and combinations of networks.
25. ISP 15 in this embodiment comprises a server 31, a modem bank 33, represented here by a single modem, and a mass storage repository 29 for storing digital data. The modem bank is a convenience, as connection to the server could be by another type of network link. ISP 15, as is typical in the art, provides Internet access services for individual subscribers. In addition to well-known Internet access services, ISP 15 also provides a unique subscription service as an Internet portal for the purpose of storing many WEB pages or destinations along with any passwords and or personal codes associated with those pages, in a manner described in more detail below. This unique portal service is provided by execution of Portal Software 35, which is termed by the inventors the Password-All suite. The software of the invention is referred to herein both as the Portal Software, and as the Password-all software suite. Also, in much of the description below, the apparatus of the invention is referred to by the Password-All terminology, such as the Password-All Server or Password-All Portal.
26. ISP 15 is connected to Internet 13 as shown. Other equipment known in the art to be present and connected to a network such as Internet 13, for example, IP data routers, data switches, gateway routers, and the like, are not illustrated here but may be assumed to be present. Access to ISP 15 is through a connection-oriented telephone system as is known in the art, or through any other Internet/WEB access connection, such as through a cable modem, special network connection (e.g. TI), ISDN, and so forth. Such connection is illustrated via access line 19 from Internet appliance 17 through modem bank 33.
27. In a preferred embodiment a user has access to Internet Password-All Portal services by a user name and password as is well known in the art, which provides an individualized WEB page to the subscriber. In another embodiment wherein a user has other individuals that use his or her Internet account, then an additional password or code unique to the user may be required before access to portal 31 is granted. Such personalized Portal WEB pages may be stored in repository 29, which may be any convenient form of mass storage.
28. Three Internet servers 23, 25, and 27, are shown in Internet 13, and represent Internet servers hosted by various enterprises and subscribed to by a user operating appliance 17. For example, server 23 may be a bank server wherein interactive on-line banking and account managing may be performed. Server 25 may be an investment server wherein investment accounts may be created and managed. Server 27 may be an airline or travel server wherein flights may be booked, tickets may be purchased, and so on. In this example, all three servers are secure servers requiring user ID and password for access, but the invention is not necessarily limited to just secure services.
29. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a subscribing user operating an Internet-capable appliance, such as appliance 17, connects to Password-All Portal system 11 hosted by ISP 15, and thereby gains access to a personalized, interactive WEB page, which in turn provides access to any one of a number of servers on Internet 13 such as servers 23, 25, and 27, without being required to enter additional passwords or codes. In a preferred embodiment the software that enables this service is termed Password-All by the inventors. Password-All may be considered to be a software suite executing on the unique server, and in some instances also on the user's station (client). Additional interactivity provided by portal software 35 allows a connected user to search his listed pages for information associated with keywords, text strings, or the like, and allows a user to program user-defined tasks involving access and interaction with one or more Internet-connected servers such as servers 23, 25, and 27 according to a pre-defined time schedule. These functions are taught in enabling detail below.
30.FIG. 2 is an illustration of a personalized portal page as may be seen on a display monitor according to an embodiment of the present invention, provided by Password-All Portal software 35 executing on server 31, in response to secure access by a subscriber. Page 32 presents an interactive listing 34 of user-subscribed or member WEB pages, identified in this example by URL, but which may also be identified by any convenient pseudonym, preferably descriptive, along with user name and typically encrypted password information for each page. Listed in a first column under destination, are exemplary destinations, My, My, My,, and These are but a few of many exemplary destinations that may be present and listed as such on page 33. In order to view additional listings listed but not immediately viewable from within application 33, a scroll bar 35 is provided and adapted to allow a user to scroll up or down the list to enable viewing as is known in the art.
31. Items listed in list 34 in this example may be considered destinations on such as servers 23, 25, and 27 of FIG. 1. Typically the URL associated with an item on this list will not take a user to a server, per se, but to a page stored on a server. User names and password data associated with each item in list 34 are illustrated in respective columns labeled user name, and password, to the right of the column labeled destination. Each listing, or at least a portion of each listing, is a hyperlink invoking, when selected, the URL to that destination. In some instances a particular service may have more than one associated URL. For example, My may have more than one URL associated for such as different accounts or businesses associated also with a single subscriber. In this case there may be a sublisting for different destinations associated with a single higher-level listing. This expedient is not shown, but given this teaching the mechanism will be apparent to those with skill in the art.
32. In some embodiments one page 33 may be shared by more than one user, such as a husband and wife sharing a common account and subscription. An instance of this is illustrated herein with respect to the server labeled wherein both a John and a Jane Doe are listed together under the column labeled user name. In another embodiment, a network of individuals, perhaps business owners, authorized co-workers, investment parties, or the like may share one application. In this way, system 11 may be adapted for private individuals as well as business uses.
33. After gaining access to application 33 which is served via Internet portal server 31 of FIG. 1, a user may scroll, highlight, and select any URL in his or her list 34 for the purpose of navigation to that particular destination for further interaction. Application 33 already has each password and user name listed for each URL. It is not necessary, however, that the password and user name be displayed for a user or users. These may well be stored transparently in a user's profile, and invoked as needed as a user makes selections. Therefore, a user is spared the need of entering passwords and user names for any destinations enabled by list 34. Of course, each list 34 is built, configured and maintained by a subscribing user or users, and an editing facility is also provided wherein a user may edit and update listings, including changing URL's adding and deleting listings, and the like.
34. In another aspect of the invention new listings for a user's profile, such as a new passthrough to a bank or other enterprise page, may be added semi-automatically as follows: Typically, when a user opens a new account with an enterprise through interaction with a WEB page hosted by the enterprise, the user is required to provide certain information, which will typically include such as the user's ID, address, e-mail account, and so forth, and typically a new user name and password to access the account. In this process the user will be interacting with the enterprise's page from his/her browser. A Password-All plug-in is provided wherein, after entering the required information for the new enterprise, the user may activate a pre-determined signal (right click, key stroke, etc.), and the Password-All suite will then enter a new passthrough in the user's Password. All profile at the Password-All Portal server.
35. In a related method for new entries, the enterprise hosting the Password-All Portal may, by agreement with other enterprises, provide log-in and sign-up services at the Password-All Portal, with most action transparent to the user. For example, there may be, at the Password-All Portal, a selectable browser list of cooperating enterprises, such as banks, security services, and the like, and a user having a Password-All Portal subscription and profile may select among such cooperating enterprises and open new accounts, which will simultaneously and automatically be added to the Password-All Portal page for the user and to the server hosted by the cooperating enterprise. There may be some interactivity required for different accounts, but in the main, much information from the user's profile may be used directly without being re-entered.
36. The inventors have anticipated that many potential users may well be suspicious of providing passwords and user names to an enterprise hosting a Password-All Portal Server executing a service like Password-All according to embodiments of the present invention. To accommodate this problem, in preferred embodiments, it is not necessary that the user provide the cleartext password to Password. All. Instead, an encrypted version of each password is provided. When a user links to his passthrough page in Password-All at the Password-All Portal server, when he/she invokes a hyperlink, the encrypted password is returned to the user's system, which then, by virtue of the kept encryption key or master password, invokes the true and necessary password for connection to the selected destination. It is thus not necessary that cleartext passwords be stored at the Password-All Portal server, where they may be vulnerable to attack from outside sources, or to perceived misuse in other ways as well.
37. In a related safety measure, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, a user's complete profile is never stored on a single server, but is distributed over two or more, preferably more, servers, so any problem with any one server will minimize the overall effect for any particular user.
38. Password-All, as described above, allows a user to access a complete list of the user's usual cyberspace destinations, complete with necessary log-on data, stored in an encrypted fashion, so a user may simply select a destination (a hyperlink) in the Password-All list, and the user's browser then invokes the URL for the selected destination. In an added feature, Password-All may display banner ads and other types of advertisement during the navigation time between a hyperlink being invoked and the time the destination WEB page is displayed.
39. In yet another embodiment of the invention, a user/subscriber need not access the Password-All page to enjoy the advantages of the unique features provided. In this variation, a Plug-In is provided for the subscriber's WEB browser. If the subscriber navigates by use of the local browser to a WEB page requiring a secure log-in, such as his/her on-line banking destination, when the subscriber is presented with an input window for ID and Password, the plug in may be activated by a predetermined user input, such as a hot key or right click of the mouse device. The plug-in then accesses, transparently, the Password-All page (which may be cached at the client), and automatically accesses and provides the needed data for log-on.
40. In yet another aspect of the invention a search option 37 allows a user to search list 34 for specific URL's based on typed input such as keywords or the like. In some cases, the number of URL's stored in list 34 can be extensive making a search function such as function 37 an attractive option. A criteria dialog box 51 illustrated as logically separated from and below list 34 is provided and adapted to accept input for search option 37 as is known in the art. In one embodiment, search option 37 may bring up a second window wherein a dialog box such as box 51 could be located.
41. In another aspect of the invention the search function may also be configured in a window invoked from window 33, and caused to search all or selected ones of listed destinations, and to return results in a manner that may be, at least to some extent, configured by a user. For example, a dialog box may be presented wherein a user may enter a search criteria, and select among all of the listed destinations. The search will then be access each of the selected destinations in turn, and the result may be presented to the user as each instance of the criteria is found, or results may be listed in a manner to be accessed after the search.
42. Preferably the search function is a part of the Password-All Portal software, available for all users, and may be accessed by hyperlinks in user's personal pages. In some embodiments users may create highly individualized search functions that may be stored in a manner to be usable only by the user who creates such a function.
43. In many aspects of the present invention, knowledge of specific WEB pages, and certain types of WEB pages, is highly desirable. In many embodiments characteristics of destination WEB pages are researched by persons (facilitators) maintaining and enhancing Password-All Portal software 35, and many characteristics may be provided in configuration modules for users to accomplish specific tasks. In most cases these characteristics are invoked and incorporated transparent to the user.
44. In yet another aspect of the present invention, the Password-All suite is structured to provide periodic reports to a user, in a manner to be structured and timed by the user, through the user's profile. For example, reports of changes in account balances in bank accounts, stock purchases, stock values, total airline travel purchases, frequent-flier miles, and the like may be summarized and provided to the users in many different ways. Because the Password-All Portal server with the Password-All software site handles a broad variety of transactional traffic for a user, there is an opportunity to summarize and collect and process statistics in many useful ways. In preferred embodiments of the invention such reports may be furnished and implemented in a number of different ways, including being displayed on the user's secure personal WEB page on the Password-All Portal.
45. In addition to the ability of performing tasks as described above, task results including reports, and hard documents such as airline tickets may be sent over the Internet or other data packet-networks to user-defined destinations such as fax machines, connected computer nodes, e-mail servers, and other Internet-connected appliances. All tasks may be set-up and caused to run according to user-defined schedules while the user is doing something else or is otherwise not engaged with the scheduled task.
46. In another embodiment of the present invention, recognizing the increasing use of the Internet for fiscal transactions, such as purchasing goods and services, a facility is provided in a user's profile to automatically track transactions made at various destinations, and to authorize payment either on a transaction-by-transaction basis, or after a session, using access to the user's bank accounts, all of which may be pre-programmed and authorized by the user.
47. Other functions or options illustrated as part of application 35 include a last URL option 41, an update function 43, and an add function 45. Function 41 allows a user to immediately navigate to a last visited URL. Update function 43 provides a means of updating URL's for content and new address. An add function enables a user to add additional URL's to list 34. Similarly, function 45 may also provide a means to delete entries. Other ways to add accounts are described above. It should be noted that the services provided by the unique Password-All Portal in embodiments of the present invention, and by the Password-All software suite are not limited to destinations requiring passwords and user names. The Password-All Portal and software in many embodiments may also be used to manage all of a user's bookmarks, including editing of bookmarks and the like. In this aspect, bookmarks will typically be presented in indexed, grouped, and hierarchical ways.
48. There are editing features provided with Password-All for adding, acquiring, deleting, and otherwise managing bookmarks. As a convenience, in many embodiments of the invention, bookmarks may be downloaded from a user's Password-All site, and loaded onto the same user's local browser. In this manner, additions and improvements in the bookmark set for a user may be used without the necessity of going to Password-All. Further, bookmarks may be uploaded from a user's local PC to his/her home page on the Password-All site by use of one or more Password-All plug-ins.
49. It will be apparent to the skilled artisan, given the teaching herein, that the functionality provided in various embodiments of the invention is especially applicable to Internet-capable appliances that may be limited in input capability. For example, a set-top box in a WEB TV application may well be without a keyboard for entering IDs and Passwords and the like. In practice of the present invention keyboard entry is minimized or eliminated. The same comments apply to many other sorts of Internet appliances.
50. In preferred embodiments of the invention, once a subscriber-user is in Password-All, only an ability to point-and-click is needed for all navigation. To get into the Password-All site, using a limited apparatus, such as an appliance without a keyboard or keypad, a Smartcard or embedded password may be used, or some other type of authentication.
51. It will be apparent to one with skill in the art that an interactive application such as application 33 may be provided in a form other than a WEB page without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. For example, an application such as application 33 may be provided as a downloadable module or program that may be set-up and configured off-line and made operational when on-line.
52.FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating user interaction with the Internet Password-All Portal of FIG. 1. The following process steps illustrated, according to an embodiment of the present invention, are intended to illustrate exemplary user-steps and automated software processes that may be initiated and invoked during interaction with an Internet portal of the present invention such as portal 31 of FIG. 1. In step 53 a user connects to the Internet or another previously described switched-packet network via a compatible appliance such as Internet appliance 17 of FIG. 1.
53. At step 55, a user enters a user-name and password, which, in one embodiment, may simply be his ISP user name and password. In another embodiment, a second password or code would be required to access an Internet portal such as portal server 31 of FIG. 1 after logging onto the Internet through the ISP. In some cases, having a special arrangement with the ISP, there may be one password for both Internet access through the ISP and for Password-All. At step 57 a personal WEB page such as page 32 of FIG. 2 is displayed via Internet portal server 31. At minimum, the personalized WEB page will contain all user configured URL's, and may also be enhanced by a search function, among other possibilities.
54. In step 58 a user will, minimally, select a URL from his or her bookmarked destinations, and as is known by hyperlink technology, the transparent URL will be invoked, and the user will navigate to that destination for the purpose of normal user interaction. In this action, the Password-All Portal software transparently logs the user on to the destination page, if such log-on is needed.
55. At step 60 the user invokes a search engine by clicking on an option such as described option 37 of FIG. 2. At step 62, the user inputs search parameters into a provided text field such as text field 51 of FIG. 2. After inputting such parameters, the user starts the search by a button such as button 52. The search engine extracts information in step 64. Such information may be, in one option, of the form of URL's fitting the description provided by search parameters. A searched list of URL's may be presented in a separate generated page in step 66 after which a user may select which URL to navigate to. In an optional search function, the user may provide search criteria, and search any or all of the possible destinations for the criteria.
56. In another embodiment wherein WEB pages are cached in their presentable form, information extracted in step 64 may include any information contained in any of the stored pages such as text, pictures, interactive content, or the like. In this case, one displayed result page may provide generated links to search results that include the URL associated with the results. Perhaps by clicking on a text or graphic result, the associated WEB page will be displayed for the user with the result highlighted and in view with regards to the display window.
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57. In another aspect of the present invention, a software agent, termed a gatherer by the inventors, is adapted to gather and return summary information about URL's according to user request or enterprise discretion. This is accomplished in embodiments of the present invention by a unique scripting and language parsing method provided by the inventor wherein human knowledge workers associated with the service provide written scripts to such a gatherer according to subscriber or enterprise directives. Such a software gatherer, and capabilities thereof, is described in enabling detail below.
58. Referring now to FIG. 1, there is illustrated an exemplary architecture representing a portal service-network which, in this case is hosted by ISP 15. Portal software 35 in this embodiment executes on portal server 31 set-up at the ISP location. Mass repository 29 is used for storing subscriber information such as passwords, login names, and the like. Internet servers 23, 25, and 27 represent servers that are adapted to serve WEB pages of enterprises patronized by a subscriber to the portal service such as one operating Internet appliance 17.
59. The main purpose of portal software 35 as described above with reference to FIG. 2, is to provide an interactive application that lists all of the subscriber's WEB sites in the form of hyperlinks. When a user invokes a hyperlink from his personal list, software 35 uses the subscriber's personal information to provide an automatic and transparent login function for the subscriber while jumping the subscriber to the subject destination.
60. Referring again to FIG. 2, an interactive list 34 containing user-entered hyperlinks and a set of interactive tools is displayed to a subscriber by portal software 35 of FIG. 1. One of the tools available to a subscriber interacting with list 34 is agent (software) 39. Agent 39 may be programmed to perform certain tasks such as obtaining account information, executing simple transactions, returning user-requested notification information about upcoming events, and so on. Search function 37 and update function 43 may be integrated with agent 39 as required to aid in functionality.
61. It is described in the above disclosure that agent 39 may, in some embodiments, search for and return certain summary information contained on user-subscribed WEB pages, such as account summaries, order tracking information and certain other information according to user-defined parameters. This feature may be programmed by a user to work on a periodic time schedule, or on demand.
62. In the following disclosure, enhancements are provided to agent 39. Such enhancements, described in detail below, may be integrated into agent 39 of portal software 35 (FIGS. 1 and 2); and may be provided as a separate agent or gatherer to run with portal software 35; or may, in some embodiments, be provided as a standalone service that is separate from portal software 35.
63.FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a summarization software agent 67 and various capabilities and layers thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention. Summarization agent 67, hereinafter termed gatherer 67, is a programmable and interactive software application adapted to run on a network server. Gatherer 67 may, in one embodiment, be integrated with portal software 35 of FIG. 1 and be provided in the form of a software module separate from agent 39 (FIG. 2). In another embodiment, gatherer 67 may be a part of agent 39 as an enhancement to the function of that agent as previously described. In still another embodiment, gatherer 67 may be provided as a parent or client-side application controlled by a separate service from the portal service described above.
64. In this exemplary embodiment gatherer 67 is a multi-featured software application having a variety of sub-modules and interface modules incorporated therein to provide enhanced function. Gatherer 67 has a client/service interface layer 69 adapted to enable directive input from both a client (user) and a knowledge worker or workers associated with the service. A browser interface 77 is provided in layer 69, and adapted to provide access to application 67 from a browser running on a client's PC or other Internet or network appliance. Interface 77 facilitates bi-directional communication with a user's browser application (not shown) for the purpose of allowing the user to input summary requests into gatherer 67 and receive summary results. Interface 77 supports all existing network communication protocols such as may be known in the art, and may be adapted to support future protocols.
65. Layer 69 also comprises a unique input scripting module 79 that is adapted to allow a human knowledge worker to create and supply directive scripts containing the site logic needed by gatherer 67 to find and retrieve data from a WEB site. In this case, gatherer 67 executes and runs on a network server such as server 31 of FIG. 1. However, this is not required in order to practice the present invention.
66. It is assumed in this example that gatherer 67 is part of the portal software suite 35 running on server 31 of FIG. 1. Gatherer 67 may be provided as several dedicated agents, or as one multi-functional agent without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. For example, one gatherer 67 may be scripted and programmed to execute a single user request with additional gatherers 67 called upon to perform additional user-requests. Alternatively, one gatherer 67 may be dedicated and assigned to each individual user and adapted to handle all requests from that user.
67. Interface layer 69 facilitates exchange of information from both a client and a knowledge worker. A client operating a WEB browser with an appropriate plug-in is enabled to communicate and interact with gatherer 67. For example, a user may enter a request to return a summary of pricing for all apartments renting for under $1000.00 per month located in a given area (defined by the user) from (one of user's registered WEB sites). The just mentioned request would be categorized as either a periodic request, or a one time (on demand) request. The communicated request initiates a service action wherein a knowledge worker associated with the service uses module 79 to set-up gatherer 67 to perform it's function. Module 79 is typically executed from a network-connected PC operated by the knowledge worker.
68. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a unique scripting method facilitated by module 79 is provided to enable gatherer 67 to obtain the goal information requested by a user. For example, the above mentioned example of WEB-site has a specific HTML (hyper-text-markup-language) logic that it uses to create its site and post its information. Such site logic is relatively standard fare for a majority of different sites hosted by different entities. Using this knowledge, a knowledge worker creates a site-specific script or template for gatherer 67 to follow. Such a template contains descriptions and locations of the appropriate fields used, for example, at Apartment description, location, deposit information, rental information, agent contact information, and other related fields are matched in terms of location and label description on the template created with module 79. Completed templates are stored in a database contained in a storage facility such as, perhaps, repository 29 of FIG. 1. Such templates may be reused and may be updated (edited) with new data.
69. In one embodiment, one script may contain site logics for a plurality of WEB pages, and instructions for specific navigational instruction and password or login information may be contained therein and executed serially, such as one site at a time. It is important to note that the knowledge worker or workers may perform much of their scripting via automatic controls such as by object linking and embedding (OLE) and a minor portion of scripting may be performed manually in an appropriate computer language, many of which are known in the art).
70. Gatherer 67 also has a process layer 71 adapted for internal information gathering and parameter configuration. An optional portal server interface 81 is provided and adapted to allow gather 67 to provide updated information to a user's list of hyperlinks and also to obtain data from portal server 31 if required. For example, required hyperlinks may be mirrored from a user's home page to a scripting template for navigational purposes. In an embodiment wherein gatherer 67 is part of a standalone service, a convention for providing user login information may be supplied at the client's end when a request is made. For example, an encrypted password may be supplied by a client plug-in and gatherer 67 may temporarily borrow the user's encryption key when auto login is performed.
71. An appliance configuration module 83 is provided and adapted to allow a user to define and configure an Internet appliance to communicate with the service and receive summary information. Such appliances may include but are not limited to palm top PC's, lap top PC's, cellular telephones, WEB TV's, and so on. Typically, a user will be presented a configuration WEB page from a network server that displays in his browser window on his desktop PC. The page contains an interface for communicating device parameters and communication protocol types to module 83. In this way, a user may configure a preferred device for receipt of summary information. Device parameters and communication protocols inherent to such a device are incorporated into the scripting of the site template and are used as instructions for WEB summary delivery.
72. A navigation layer 73 is provided and adapted to perform the function of external site navigation and data gathering for gatherer 67. To this end, a communication interface/browser control module 85 is provided and adapted to function as a WEB browser to access WEB sites containing WEB data. Control 85 receives its instruction from the scripted template created by the knowledge worker.
73. A parsing engine 87 is provided and adapted to parse individual WEB sites according to a template created via scripting module 79. Parsing engine 87 may be a Pearl engine, an IE HTML engine, or any other or combination of known parsing engines. The template (not shown) tells control 85 and parsing engine 87 where to go and what fields at the destination site to look for to access desired data. Once the data fields are located, parsing engine 87 gathers current data in the appropriate field, and returns that data to the service for further processing such as data conversion, compression and storage, and the like.
74. Because WEB sites use tools that use consistent logic in setting up their sites, this logic may be used by the summarization service to instruct control 83 and parsing engine 87. The inventor provides herein an exemplary script logic for navigating to and garnishing data from amazon™.com. The hyperlinks and/or actual URLs required for navigation are not shown, but may be assumed to be included in the template script. In this example, a company name Yodlee (known to the inventors) is used in the script for naming object holders and object containers, which are in this case Active X™ conventions. In another embodiment, Java™ script or another object linking control may be used. The scripted template logic example is as follows:
75. # Site amazon.orders.x—shows status of orders from Amazon login( 7);
76. get(“/exec/obidos/order-list/”);
77. my@tables=get_tables_containing_text(“Orders:”);
78. my $order_list=new Yodlee::ObjectHolder(‘orders’);
79. $order_list−>source(‘amazon’);
80. $order_list−>link_info(get_link_info);
81. my@href_list;
82. my@container_list;
83. foreach my $table (@tables) {
84. my@grows=get_table_rows;
85. foreach my $i ( . . . $#rows) {
86. select_row($i);
87. my $text=get_text($rows[$i]);
88. next if $text=˜/Orders:|Status/;
89. my @items=get_row_items;
90. next unless @items>=4;
91. my($order_num, $date, $status);
92. select_cell(1);
93. $order_num=get_cell_text;
94. my $href=get_url_of_first_href(get_cell);
95. select_cell(2);
96. $date=get_cell_text;
97. select_cell(3);
98. $status=get_cell_text();
99. next unless defined $order_num and defined $date and defined $status;
100. my $order=new Yodlee::Container(‘orders’);
101. $order−>order_number($order_num);
102. $order−>date($date);
103. $order−>status($status);
104. $order_list−>push_object($order);
105. if( defined $href) {
106. push(@href_list, $href);
107. push(@container_list, $order);
108. foreach my $i ( . . . $#href_list) {
109. get($href_list[Si]);
110. @tables=get_tables_containing_text(“Items Ordered:”);
111. foreach my $table (@tables ) {
112. my @rows=get_table_rows;
113. foreach my $j ( . . . $#rows ) {
114. select_row($j);
115. my $href=get_url_of_first_href(get_row);
116. next unless defined $href;
117. my @child_list=get_children(get_row, ‘a’);
118. next unless defined $child_list[];
119. my $text=get_text($child_list[]);
120. $container_list[$i]−>description($text);
121. }
122. }
123. result($order_list);
124. The above example is a script that instructs control 85 and parser 87 to navigate to and obtain data from Amazon™.com, specifically that data that reflects the user's current order status. Scripts may also be written to obtain virtually any type of text information available from any site. For example, a user may wish to obtain the New York Times headlines, the top ten performing stocks, a comparative list of flights from San Francisco to New York, etc. In one embodiment, metadata may be associated with and used in-place of the actual scripted language for the purpose of reducing complication in the case of many scripts on one template.
125. A data processing layer 75 is provided and adapted to store, process, and present returned data to users according to enterprise rules and client direction. A database interface module 89 is provided and adapted to provide access for gatherer 67 to a mass repository such as repository 29 of FIG. 1, for the purpose of storing and retrieving summary data, templates, presentation directives, and so on. Gatherer agent 67 may also access data through interface 89 such as profile information, user account and URL information, stored site logics and so on. Data scanned from the WEB is stored in a canonical format in a database such as repository 29, or in another connected storage facility. All stored data is, of course, associated with an individual who requested it, or for whom the data is made available according to enterprise discretion.
126. A summarization page module 91 is provided and adapted to organize and serve a WEB summary page to a user. Module 91, in some embodiments, may immediately push a WEB summary to a user, or module 91 may store such summarized pages for a user to access via a pull method, in which case a notification may be sent to the user alerting him of the summary page availability. Summarization module 91 includes an HTML renderer that is able to format data into HTML format for WEB page display. In this way, e-mail messages and the like may be presented as HTML text on a user's summarization page. Moreover, any summary data from any site may include an embedded hyperlink to that site. In this way, a user looking at an e-mail text in HTML may click on it and launch the appropriate e-mail program. Other sites will, by default, be linked through the summary page.
127. Many users will access their summary data through a WEB page as described above, however, this is not required in order to practice the present invention. In some embodiments, users will want their summary information formatted and delivered to one of a variety of Internet-capable appliances such as a palm top or, perhaps a cell phone. To this end, the renderer is capable of formatting and presenting the summary data into a number of formats specific to alternative devices. Examples of different known formats include, but are not limited to XML, plain text, VoxML, HDML, audio, video, and so on.
128. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, gather 67 is flexible in such a way as it may act according to enterprise rules, client directives, or a combination of the two. For example, if a user makes a request for summary data about a user/subscribed WEB page to be periodically executed and presented in the form of a HTML document, then gather 67 would automatically access and analyze the required internal information and user provided information to formulate a directive. Using scripting module 79, a knowledge worker provides a template (if one is not already created for that site) that contains the “where to go” and “what to get” information according to site logic, user input, and known information.
129. Alternatively, if a user requests a summary about data on one of his sites such as, perhaps, current interest rates and re-finance costs at his mortgage site, the service may at it's own discretion provide an additional unsolicited summary from an alternate mortgage site for comparison. This type of summarization would be designed to enhance a user's position based on his profile information. In this case, updated data about latest interest rates, stock performances, car prices, airline ticket discounts, and so on would be stored by the service for comparative purposes. If a user request for a summary can be equaled or bettered in terms of any advantage to the user, such summary data may be included.
130. In many cases, created templates may be re-used unless a WEB site changes it's site logic parameters, in which case, the new logic must be accessed and any existing templates must be updated, or a new template may be created for the site. The templates contain site-specific script obtained from the site and stored by the knowledge workers. In one embodiment, companies hosting WEB pages automatically provide their site logics and any logic updates to the service by virtue of an agreement between the service and the WEB hosts.
131. In an alternative embodiment gatherer 67 may be implemented as a client application installed on a user's PC. In this embodiment, a user would not be required to supply log-in or password codes. Summarization scripts may be sent to the client software and templates may be automatically created with the appropriate scripts using log-in and password information encrypted and stored locally on the user's machine.
132. In addition to providing WEB summary information, gatherer 67 may also be used to provide such as automatic registration to new sites, and for updating old registration information to existing sites. For example, if a user whishes to subscribe, or register at a new site, only the identification of the site is required from the user as long as his pertinate information has not changed. If a new password or the like is required, gatherer 67 through control module 73 may present login or password codes from a list of alternative codes provided by a user. In another embodiment, a database (not shown) containing a wealth of password options may be accessed by gatherer 67 for the purpose of trying different passwords until one is accepted by the site. Once a password or log-in code is accepted, it may be sent to a user and stored in his password list and at the network level.
133. It will be apparent to one with skill in the art that a software application such as gatherer 67 may be implemented in many separate locations connected in a data network. For example, a plurality of gatherer applications may be distributed over many separate servers linked to one or more mass repositories. Client applications include but are not limited to a WEB-browser plug-in for communicating to the service. Plug-in extensions may also be afforded to proxy servers so that auto-login and data access may still be performed transparent to a user.
134. In another embodiment, plug-ins enabling communication with gatherer 67 may be provided and configured to run on other network devices for the purpose of enabling such a device to initiate a request and get a response without the need for a desktop computer.
135. In most embodiments a user operating a desktop PC will order a one time or periodic summary related to some or all of his subscribed WEB sites. A logical flow of an exemplary request/response interaction is provided below.
136.FIG. 5 is a logical flow chart illustrating an exemplary summarization process performed by the software agent of FIG. 4 operating in a user-defined mode. In step 93, a user has initiated a new request for a summary (summary order). It is assumed for the purpose of discussion, that the request of step 93 involves a site wherein no template has been created. In step 95, the request is received and analyzed. A knowledge worker will likely perform this step. The new request may be posted to the user's portal home page, sent directly to gatherer 67, or even communicated through e-mail or other media to the service.
137. In step 97 a knowledge worker accesses particular site logic associated with the request URLs. For example, if the request involves a plurality of URLs, then all site logics for those URLs are accessed. Logic may be available in a repository such as repository 29 of FIG. 1 if they were obtained at the time of user registration to a particular URL, or sent in by WEB-site hosts shortly after registration. If it is a completely new URL, then the logic must be obtained from the site. In most cases however, the logic will be known by virtue of a plurality of users accessing common URLs. Therefore cross-linking in a database of logic/user associations may be performed to access a logic for a site that is new to one particular user, but not new to another.
138. In step 99, the knowledge worker creates a template by virtue of scripting module 79 (FIG. 4) containing all site logic, URLs, log-in and password information, and the user request information. As described previously, templates may be re-used for a same request. In most cases, scripting may be mostly automated with minimum manual input performed by the knowledge worker. In many cases, an existing template will match a new request exactly, and may be re-used. In that case steps 97, 99, and 101 would not be required.
139. In step 101 the template is stored and associated with the requesting user. The stored template may now be retrieved at a scheduled time for performing the summary gathering. At step 103, a browser control such as module 85 of FIG. 4 is activated to access the stored template and navigate to specified URLs for the purpose of gathering summary data. If a timing function is attributed to the template stored in step 101, then the template may self execute and call up the browser function. In another embodiment, 10 the knowledge worker may notify the browser control to get the template for it's next task. In some embodiments, a plurality of controls may be used with one template as previously described.
140. In step 105, automatic log-in is performed, if required, to gain access to each specified URL. In step 107, a specified WEB-page is navigated to and parsed for requested data according to the logic on the template. If there are a plurality of WEB-pages to parse, then this step is repeated for the number of pages. A variety of parsing engines may be used for this process such as an IE™ parser, or a Pearl™ parser. Only the requested data is kept in step 107.
141. A request may be an on-demand request requiring immediate return, or a scheduled request wherein data may be posted. At step 109, such logic is confirmed. If the data is to be presented according to a periodic schedule, then summary data parsed in step 107 is stored for latter use in step 111. In step 113, the summary data is rendered as HTML if not already formatted, and displayed in the form of a summary WEB-page in step 115. The summary page may be posted for access by a user at a time convenient to the user (pull), or may be pushed as a WEB-page to the user and be made to automatically display on the user's PC. Notification of summary page availability may also be sent to a user to alert him of completion of order.
142. If the summary data is from a one-time on-demand request and required immediately by a user, then a network appliance and data delivery method (configured by the user) is confirmed, and the data is rendered in the appropriate format for delivery and display in step 117. In step 119, the summary data is delivered according to protocol to a user's designated appliance. In step 121 a user receives requested information in the appropriate format.
143. It will be apparent to one with skill in the art that there may be more or fewer logical steps as well as added sub-steps than are illustrated in this example. For example, step 105 may in other embodiments include sub-steps such as getting an encryption key from a user. In still another embodiment, part of a request may be rendered as HTML as in step 113 while certain other portions of the same request data might be rendered in another format and delivered via alternative methods. There are many possibilities.
144. The method and apparatus of the present invention may be used to present summaries to users without user input. Process logic such as this is detailed below.
145.FIG. 6 is a logical flow chart illustrating an exemplary summarization process performed by the software agent of FIG. 4 in a User-independent smart mode with minimum or no user input. In step 117 an enterprise-initiated summary process begins. In this case, the enterprise may be assisting a user in finding a better deal or, perhaps presenting the individual with summaries from and links to alternative pages not yet subscribed to by a user.
146. In step 119, a database containing user information and parameters is accessed and reviewed. Certain information specific to a user may be required to initiate an enterprise-sponsored summary report. At step 121, the knowledge worker accesses the site logic specific to the specified target site or sites for summarization. In step 123, the knowledge worker modifies an existing user template, or creates a new one if necessary. At step 125 the template is stored in a repository such as repository 29 and associated with the user.
147. As described in FIG. 5, the template either self-executes according to a timed function and invokes a browser control such as control 85 (FIG. 4), or is accessed by control 85 as a result of task notification. In step 127, the browser control begins navigation. Auto logins are performed, if required, in step 129 to gain access to selected sites. If the WEB pages are new to a user, and the user has no registration with the WEB site, then through agreement, or other convention, the service may be provided access to such sites. Such an agreement may be made, for example, if the host of the WEB site realizes a possibility of gaining a new customer if the customer likes the summary information presented. In many other situations, no password or login information is required to obtain general information that is not personal to a client.
148. In step 131, all sites are parsed for summary data and stored in canonical fashion in step 133. At step 135, the data is compiled and rendered as HTML for presentation on a summary page. In step 137, a WEB summary containing all of the data is made available to a user and the user is notified of its existence.
149. Providing certain information not requested by a user may aid in enhancing a user's organization of is current business on the WEB. Moreover, unsolicited WEB summaries may provide better opportunities than the current options in the user's profile. Of course, assisting a user in this manner will require that the enterprise (service) have access to the user's profile and existing account and service information with various WEB sites on the user's list. A user may forbid use of a user's personal information, in which case, no enterprise-initiated summaries would be performed unless they are conducted strictly in an offer mode instead of a comparative mode.
150. The method and apparatus also may be practiced in a language and platform independent manner, and be implemented over a variety of scalable server architectures.
151. The method and apparatus of the present invention may be practiced via private individuals on the Internet, businesses operating on a WAN connected to the Internet, businesses operating via private WAN, and so on. There are many customizable situations.
152. The present invention as taught herein and above should be afforded the broadest of scope. The spirit and scope of the present invention is limited only by the claims that follow.
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I'm looking to buy a JDS Labs cMoyBB v2.03 portable headphone amp to power my Beyerdynamic DT1350.
I see enough of these little critters around in the for sale section, but most are not very interestingly priced for me. A new one from JDS Labs is will cost me about 50 EUR incl. shipping (66.29 USD) to the Netherlands.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/54999 | 32. Oryza sativa, Linn.—Common Rice.
Botanical name:
Tribe I. Oryzeae, Endl.
Fig. 200. Oryza sativa. Sex. Syst. Hexandria, Digynia.
Synonymes.—Oρυζον, Theophr. Hist. Plant., lib. iv. cap. 5; ορυζα, Dioscor., lib. ii. cap. 117; Galen, de simpl. med. facult., lib. viii. cap. xv. 16; Oryza, Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. xviii. cap. 13.
Botany.Stems numerous, 2 to 8 or 10 feet long. Leaves long and slender. Panicle diffuse thin, bowing when the seed is weigthy. Spikelet hermaphrodite, 1-flowered; glumes 2, small; paleae 2; scales 2, smooth; stamens 6; ovary sessile; styles 2; stigma feathery. Caryopsis compressed, enclosed by the paleae.—Originally a native of Asia. Extensively cultivated in India, China, the Indian Archipelago, and most other Eastern countries; in the West Indies, Central America, and the United States; and in some of the Southern countries of Europe. Forty or fifty varieties [Roxburgh, Flora Indica, vol. ii. p. 200, 1822.] are known to and cultivated by the Indian farmers; of these some are awned—others are awnless. The kinds most esteemed in this country are the Carolina and Patna rice. Patna rice is imported in bags holding 1 ½ cwts. each. It has usually been mixed with lime, to prevent the attack of insects. The grain, whilst enclosed in the paleae or husk, is called paddy (padi or paddie) by the Malays, bras when deprived of the husk, and nasi after it has been boiled.
Composition.—Rice has been analyzed by Vauquelin [Mém. du Museum d'Hist. Nat. t. iii. p. 229, 1817.], by Braconnot [Ann. Chim. Phys. t. iv. p. 383, 1818.], by Vogel [Quoted by L. Gmelin, Handb. d. Chemie, Bd. ii. S. 1345.], and by d'Arcet and Payen [Journ. de Chimie Méd. t. ix. p. 221, 1833.] (see ante, p. 106). The composition of Carolina and Piedmond rice is, according to Braconnot, as follows:—
Carolina Rice. Piedmont Rice.
Starch 85.07 83.80
Parenchyma (woody fibre) 4.80 4.80
Glutinous matter 3.60 3.60
Rancid, colourless, tallowy oil 0.13 0.25
Uncrystalizable sugar 0.29 0.05
Gum 0.71 0.10
Phosphate of lime 0.40 0.40
Water 5.00 7.00
Acetic acid, phosphate of potash, chloride of potassium, and vegetable salts of potash and lime. traces. traces.
100.00 100.00
The inorganic constituents of rice have been before stated (see ante, p. 106).
1. Rice starch is manufactured, under Mr. Orlando Jones's patent, as follows: Patna rice is first freed from stones, dust, &c., by a process analogous to winnowing, and is then digested whole in a solution of caustic soda containing 200 grains of soda to the gallon. The solution being poured off, the grain, which has thus been deprived of part of its gluten, is ground in a mill, and the ground rice mixed with a solution of the same strength, so as to form a mixture having the consistence of thick cream. More lye is then added, and the mixture stirred up for a few hours, and then left to deposit: a heavy matter, called fibre (heavy starch), deposits, while the starch (lighter starch) remains suspended. The liquor is then run off into shallow vessels, where the starch deposits: the alkaline solution of gluten is then drawn off, and the starch repeatedly washed with water and then allowed to deposit. The starch mass is now obtained of the consistence of clay. It is then usually mixed with blue colouring matter (smalt), to fit it for the use of the laundress, and removed to draining-boxes, which are lined with cloth. These consist each of two cells, whose size is 3 feet long, 6 inches deep, and 6 inches broad. Here the starch forms a lump or mass of the shape and size of the cell, and is afterwards cut into 6 cubical blocks, which are placed on chalk-stones to drain, and are then partially dried in a stove, to produce what is called crusting. The crust is scraped off, the block wrapped in paper and returned to the stove to dry, when it splits into the columnar masses commonly known as the race of the starch. If, instead of crusting the lumps, the starch were slowly dried, decomposition is apt to take place; and, if rapidly dried, the races are apt to be small and needle like. 100 lbs. of Patna rice, as it occurs in the market, yield from 80 to 85 lbs. of good marketable starch, 7.5 lbs. of fibre, the remainder being gluten, gruff or bran, and a small quantity of light starch, carried off in suspension in the alkaline liquor.
Vogel states that, from dried rice, he obtained 96 per cent, of starch.
When examined by the microscope, the granules are observed to be polygonal, and very minute; their average diameter being about 1/5263d part of an inch [The following are the measurements of the particles of rice starch made by my friend Mr. Jackson:—1: .00027 Inches. 2. .00021. 3. .0002. 4. .00017. 5. .0001. 5) .00095 / .00019 = 1/5263. Most of the particles are angular; but the measurements were taken on those which most nearly approached the globular form.]. They are the smallest granules of all the commercial starches. According to Vauquelin, rice starch begins to dissolve in water at from 122° to 132° F.
Two kinds of rice starch are found in the shops: one, prepared under Orlando Jones's patent; the other, called Mechlin glaze starch, manufactured by Mottram, Rebè & Co.
2. Proteine matters. Rice contains a much smaller proportion of the so-called gluten than wheat does. According to Horsford [Ann. Chem. u. Pharm. Bd. xlviii. 1846.] and Payen (see ante, p. 106, and vol. i. p. 119), the quantity is about 7 per cent.
The substance which the rice starch-makers term gluten is analogous to what Mulder calls proteine, being obtained by carefully neutralizing the alkaline solution in which rice has been digested with an acid, by which a precipitate forms, which, when separated from the supernatant liquor, has a creamy consistence, an agreeable smell, and a bland taste, like pap. By evaporation, it forms a dark-coloured hard mass. If kept for some time in the moist state, it undergoes decomposition, and evolves an odour somewhat like sour yeast. Mixed with eggs, I have employed it, in the form of a baked pudding, in diabetes.
3. Fatty matters.—The quantity of fatty matter contained in rice is smaller than in other varieties of corn. The outer part of the grain appears to contain more than the inner part.
Effects.—Rice, though nutritious, is less so than wheat: this is proved by chemical analysis, which shows the much smaller proportion of glutinous or nitrogenous matter found in the former than in the latter grain (see ante, p. 106, and vol. i. p. 119). "Rice," says Boussingault [Ann. Chim. et Phys. lxvii. p. 413.], "is held up as a most nutritive food; but though I have lived long in countries which produce it, I am far from considering it as a substantial nourishment. I have always seen it, in ordinary use, replace bread; and when it has not been associated with meat, it has been employed with milk."
The solid or dry part of rice does not materially differ from the solid or dry part of potatoes in the proportion of starch and gluten which it contains; and, therefore, as far as regards these principles, the nutritive values of anhydrous rice and anhydrous potatoes are about equal. But, in some Union poor-houses, the substitution of an equal weight of boiled rice for potatoes was followed in a few months by scurvy [Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, June, 1847. Dr. Garrod (Monthly Journal of Medical Science, January, 1848) calculates that, prior to the substitution, the usual weekly food of the men in the Crediton Union contained 186 grains, and of the women 181 grains of potash; but, after the substitution, the weekly amount of potash taken by the men was about 51 grains, and by the women 46 grains, or a reduction of more than two thirds: and he ascribes the occurrence of scurvy after the use of rice to the inferior proportion of potash which this grain contains in comparison with potatoes. We ought, however, also to take into consideration the fact that rice is deficient in certain vegetable acids found in the potato (see ante, p. 107). (Looks like they didn't know, back then, that scurvy is a deficiency of vitamin C (= ascorbic acid). -Henriette)].
Rice, when swallowed in the raw state, swells up in the alimentary canal, and acts injuriously by the mechanical distension it gives rise to. Mr. Hovell [Lancet, April 10th, 1847, p. 390.] has reported a case in which great pain, peritoneal inilammation, and death, arose from the ingestion of a tumblerful of raw rice.
"Rice," says Marsden [History of Sumatra, p. 65, 3d ed. 1811.], "is the grand material of food, on which a hundred million of the inhabitants of the earth subsist, and although chiefly confined by nature to the regions included between, and bordering on the tropics, its cultivation is probably more extensive than that of wheat, which the Europeans are wont to consider as the universal staff of life."
Rice is less laxative than the other cereal grains. Indeed, it is generally believed to possess a binding or constipating quality: and, in consequence, is frequently prescribed by medical men as a light, digestible, uninjurious article of food in diarrhoea and dysentery.
Various ill effects, such as disordered vision, &c., have been ascribed to its use [Bontius, Account of the Diseases, Natural History, &c., of the East Indies, translated into English, 1769; also, Bricheteau in Tortuelle's Elem. d. Hygiène, 4me éd.]; but, as I believe, unjustly so. Neither does there appear to me to be any real foundation for the assertions of Dr. Tytler [Lancet, 1833-34, vol. i.], that malignant cholera (which he calls the morbus oryzeus, or rice disease) is induced by it.
Uses.—Rice is employed as a nutriment in a variety of forms; e. g. boiled rice, rice milk, rice pudding, rice cakes, &c. In China, rice vermicelli is prepared from it. This is sold in flat bundles (of about 5 inches long, and 1 ¼ inch broad), composed of a folded thread or filament made of rice paste. Medicinally, rice is employed as a demulcent, somewhat binding, nutritive substance in diarrhoea, &c. Gardiner's alimentary preparation is very finely ground rice meal.
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Party. The Gestapo, in its extremely difficult task, is to be granted support and assistance in every possible way by the NSDAP."
The conspirators then were directing their apparatus of terror against the "enemies of the State," against "disintegrating forces," against those people who endangered the State "through their attitude." Whom did they consider as belonging in these broad categories? Well, first, there were the men in Germany who wanted peace. We refer to Document L-83 (Exhibit USA-234).
THE PRESIDENT: What was the date of that document that you have been referring to, Number 1723-PS?
MR. DODD: January 25, 1938. It has already been introduced and is included in USA Exhibit B. This document consists of an affidavit of Gerhart H. Seger, and I wish only to read from Page 1, Paragraph 2 of that affidavit:
"2. During the period after World War I, until I was committed-to the Leipzig jail and Oranienburg Concentration Camp, in the spring of 1933 following the Nazi accession to power in January of that year, my business and political affiliations exposed me to the full impact of the Nazi theories and practice of violent regimentation and terroristic tactics. My conflict with the Nazis by virtue of my identification with the peace movement and as duly elected member of the Reichstag representing a political faith (Social Democratic Party) hostile to National Socialism, clearly demonstrated that even in the period prior to 1933 the Nazis considered crimes and terrorism a necessary and desirable weapon in overcoming democratic opposition."
Passing to Page 5 of the same document and the paragraph marked "(e)":
"That the Nazis had already conceived the device of the concentration camp as a means of suppressing and regimenting opposition elements was forcefully brought to my attention during the course of a conversation which I had with Dr. Wilhelm Frick in December 1932. Frick at that time was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag of which I was a member. When I gave an emphatic answer to Frick concerning the particular matter discussed, he replied, 'Don't worry, when we are in power we shall put all of you guys into concentration camps.' When the Nazis came into power, Frick was appointed Reich Minister of Interior and promptly carried out his threat in collaboration with Göring as Chief of the Prussian State Police, and Himmler."
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Cassidy Tucker (aka Cass Jay Tuck) reads a lot.
She also makes a lot of videos, and has gained quite a following for her fun (and funny) YouTube book reviews.
She also entertainingly opines, with more than a little sarcasm, about women in YA fiction, e-readers and English Majors.
Her videos often feature music, text, fast cuts, special effects and generally a lot of silliness.
Oh and she has a replica TARDIS in her room. In short: she's our kind of nerd.
And now we're even more enamored with CJT as we recognize all too well the back/neck/arm ache she suffers as she tries to discover the ideal way to read, in the gigglesome video posted above.
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'Two Granddaughters': What My Grandmother Taught Me About Marriage Equality
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She told me later, in tired English tinged with a hearty Bulgarian accent, "I think he is a homosexual." My heart stopped before she went on. "And it doesn't matter to me. I don't care if he likes blackbirds or bluebirds. I don't care if he likes raspberries or blueberries. What do I care if he likes men or women?"
She didn't know just how badly I needed that validation, that maybe it really was all the same to some people whether you liked men or women. My newly adopted home state of Illinois certainly hasn't come that far. A year ago this June, Illinois began performing civil unions for same-sex couples. That's progress, but anyone who argues that it's "the same thing" as marriage is wrong.
Months after my visit, my 86-year-old grandmother pestered my mother on the phone about why I didn't have a boyfriend. Frustrated, Mom told her that actually, I had a girlfriend. Blackbirds and bluebirds be damned, Grandma didn't talk to me for months. Instead, she called my mother every day to agonize. "How can you accept this?" she'd repeat, not necessarily because she thought my dating a girl was wrong, but because I was rejecting the future she envisioned for me: a charming Jewish husband, throngs of children, and, most importantly, marriage.
In California same-sex couples could enter into domestic partnerships as early as 1993, before those glorious few months in 2008 when marriage equality was legal. In Connecticut, New Hampshire, Washington, D.C., Vermont, and Washington state, civil unions preceded current marriage equality laws by anywhere from three to nine years. Civil unions clearly aren't an end but a means, a stepping stone to the true equality that can only come from marriage rights.
My grandmother wanted to marry a man with green eyes, but when she met my grandfather, blue-eyed and Bulgarian like her, she decided to make an exception. I never saw them hold hands, but she shouted at the sky and wept when he died. My own parents eloped so that my mother wouldn't get deported to France when her student visa expired after grad school. They had a formal wedding a year later, officiated in two languages. Marriage is a big deal in my family. It's a big deal to me.
The state of Illinois, like many others, doesn't see the urgency for marriage equality that I do. And while civil unions are a commendable first step, they're an inherently separate institution and, therefore, as history reminds us, inherently unequal. Marital status is a factor in 1,138 federal laws, according to government memos on the Defense of Marriage Act, the law that bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages. This means married couples have 1,138 rights -- things like social security and taxation -- that are formally denied to couples in civil unions.
And while the breakdown of benefits is not to be ignored, this is about more than paperwork. The most compelling testimony for marriage equality reiterates that marriage is fundamentally about unconditional love, commitment, and loyalty. Nothing more, nothing less. In a video that went viral among the pro-marriage-equality crowd, a college student named Zach Wahls testified before the Iowa House of Representatives to support the state's marriage equality law. He speaks eloquently on being raised by two moms: "What you're voting here isn't to change us. It's not to change our families. It's to change how the law views us, how the law treats us." Banning marriage equality will not nullify love. But to say some relationships merit marriage and others don't? That's indefensible.
Of course, marriage isn't all that defines a loving, stable relationship. Some people want to get married, and some don't. Some people are happy in civil unions, cohabiting, or being single. But they make those decisions for themselves freely, independently of what others believe. I have the right to do the same. I have the right to pursue what's best for me, even if others wouldn't choose it for themselves, even if it means marrying a girl.
Three months after my mother's confession, Grandma broke the silence.
"Camille, I hear you have someone special in your life."
"I do, Grandma. I have a girlfriend."
"I know! Anne. She is studying in China, right?"
"Yeah, she is."
"Well, when she comes back, bring her with you to New York. Imagine how lucky I am: I used to have one granddaughter, and now I have two!"
A few days after I talked to my grandma, she asked if I was going to marry my girlfriend, because that's what you do when you love someone: you marry them.
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Gay Stereotypes On TV Aren't Offensive... They're Lazy
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I don't think anyone that "complained" was asking for Community to be censored or for it to become a schmaltzy PC pile of shit. I think they were asking me to stick a post-it note on my brain regarding the situation, which I can do without making the show any less brilliant or funny. It will be all the moreso the more I continue to care about the audience's experience.
The above quotation comes from Dan Harmon, creator of "best-sitcom-on-TV, I'll jump-if-you-cancel-it, I-really-will" Community. He refers to a mild outcry at last week's episode "Advanced Gay," whose A-plot revolved around resident bigot Pierce Hawthorne accepting the gay community after his line of moist towelettes becomes iconic for their ability to, presumably, facilitate rimming.
That plot may sound familiar because it is. A recent Simpsons episode turned Moe's into a gay bar. Parks and Recreation played the trope when Leslie Nope became an unlikely hero by inadvertently marrying two male penguins at the Pawnee Zoo. What all three episodes have in common -- and the crux of Harmon's statement -- is that they feature gay stereotypes that haven't been valid since Queer As Folk.
The boys on Community are all of the "Kurt from Glee" school of gay coding: effeminate, immaculately put-together and of the opinion that a drag queen and some glitter turns even the lowliest community college cafeteria into the best goddamn gay club in Colorado.
The trouble is, there a thousand gay stereotypes to be exploited on TV that would feel fresh. Why not make these boys older, hairy bears? Hipper-than-thou indie fags? Punks who can't walk comfortably because they have safety pins through their urethras? Why not, I dunno, have them not be white? All that would reflect the depth of character most other Greendale residents are granted. It would give the impression that anyone on staff had been to a gay bar since their twink cousin dragged them to Sidetracks over their sophomore Christmas break.
The surfeit of effeminate glitter boys on Parks and Rec makes sense. Pawnee's nightlife scene is hardly comparable to that of San Francisco, or even Geneseo. Expecting nuance and creativity on The Simpsons is, at this point, about as fruitful as hoping for an enthusiastic Lou Reed live performance. But Community should know better. In fact, it usually does. That's why I catalogue Harmon's apology as a likely first: a consensus that these stereotypes aren't outright offensive, just indicative of sub-par television writing.
Community's biggest forays into gay jokes were successful. They have turned ambiguous Dean Pelton from a one-note (albeit hysterical) Tobias Funke into an actual character with motives and aspirations. So what if he must also suppress his massive boner for Jeff Winger while nursing a nascent Dalmatian fetish? One of the best gay storylines I've seen on any show involves aggressively misguided liberal Britta Perry enjoying the street cred of her new lesbian friend. Only said "lesbian" is just another straight girl who thinks that Britta is the sophisticated sappho.
Community traffics in stereotypes -- judgemental black Christian, over-achieving neurotic Jew, disaffected metrosexual -- and it would be narcissistic of us homos to complain when we get the same treatment. That is, if the treatment is done right. There are a million stereotypes of what a queer guy can be. To call the one show last week offensive just does a disservice to all the great guys out there who happen to fit the mold. Would you like it if the kind of person you were was offensive to others? Community is one of the few shows out there that has the intelligence and humor to do a gay subplot correctly. Expecting more from them is not an insult; it's a compliment.
For contrast, look at FX's American Horror Story (which I have personally subtitled "Dylan McDermott Crying"). This show boasts the subtlety and verisimilitude of an egg mcmuffin. Jessica Lange's performance alone will keep drag queens employed through the age of flying cars. Yet I couldn't help being offended when the show dragged out Zachary Quinto (who can and has been given better) as a cross between Carson Kressly and the wicked witch of the West Hollywood. He ties a sweater around his shoulders and decorates his house with intensity usually reserved for escaping Bergen Belsen. I'm not offended as a gay man, mind you, just as someone who watches way too much TV and expects some of it to be well-written.
We get Quinto's jock-ish partner as a mild respite until the latter screams that his on-the-side trick is "a power bottom," all but pausing to look at the camera to say, "Yep, we went there." AHS is not a bad show, just one that is better enjoyed when the viewer's sense of logic and intelligence are stowed somewhere outside Ryan Murphy's clutches. I wasn't expecting Keith Charles and David Fisher, just a couple that didn't appear to have read Gay for Dummies minutes before the cameras started rolling.
In the end this all comes down to expectations. Too many talented women are wasted onscreen as boy-crazy waifs or harridan housewives. Black actors play characters who spend about 50 percent of their time playing into or against stale characterizations. It was nice that no one went crying to GLAAD about Harmon and co's misstep on Community. Gay audiences aren't asking to be left out of the joke, just that the joke be a bit more grounded in their own lives.
I have utmost faith that Harmon and co. will learn from their past successes and do the gay story right next time. A personal thanks to you, Dan Harmon, for understanding why audiences were disappointed and sparing us any "my best friends are gay" style comments in your apology. We know you can do it right, and you might be one of the few writers out there who will actually be trying.
In fact, I have the perfect gay guest star for Community. He is unemployed and uses The Huffington Post as an outlet for his rants about TV. He is tall and Jewish and has some limited experience on-screen. And he has a killer idea for a "No Exit" bottle episode where Jeff, Annie and he get locked in the library all day and find the object of their desire to be forever pining for someone who doesn't love them back.
OK, I know I'm as likely to get to Greendale as my dog is to catch her own tail. But give us the gay episode of Community that we all know is possible and I'll count it as a win. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/55094 | Exercise 1. Party identification and presidential vote
1. Party identification usually is strongly related to voting behavior. This relationship is discussed in the section on voting behavior. To see how strongly party identification was related to the 2004 presidential vote, you should generate a table that shows the relationship between the individual's party identification (V007) and his or her presidential vote (V002).
2. The table that you just generated may be a little difficult to interpret because:
1. Party identification has seven categories. This makes the table fairly complicated. If party identification were simplified so that it had fewer categories, this would make the table less complicated.
2. The presidential vote includes those who voted for minor party candidates. Since so few people voted for minor candidates, it would simplify the table to eliminate them.
3. A cleaner and simpler table can be generated by:
1. Recoding party identification to just three categories (Democrats, independents, and Republicans).
2. Recoding presidential vote so that we have only the two major-party candidates.
General information about why it can be desirable to recode variables is in the section on principles of data analysis.
Helpful hints on using DAS/SDA to recode variables
4. Generate a new, simpler table (Table 1B) by using recoded versions of party identification and presidential vote. Compare Table 1B to Table 1A.
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Originally Posted by lilojmayo
lol, what am i reading. I guess it would make sense if you were to take 100 3s and divide by two. But 10 3's, , you can't even assume a normal distribution with a sample size of 10 ( for you statistics geeks).
and there is one big thing that equation is missing SHOT SELECTION in game.
Was a small passage from a book.. I'd think he'd assume in the book shot selection would be pretty good like mostly open shots.
I agree you'd be better off doing 100 than 10, I think he means you could find your level on 10 shots as in you consistently making that number out of 10.
I don't think it's supposed to be an end to all formula, but more as help in general numbers. So far that sheet actually holds up pretty well for what players on my team shoot at practice and in games.
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"loli twins are my new fetish, thanks"
I don't listen to Stars.
Someone (please) sell me Sailor Moon season 3 and the movies.
"Yeah Merzbow is definitely gonna be one of those 'cool' bands to come. Sunn O))) has had the pleasure for far too long. Glad I got in there before most others."
"Sometimes I wonder if you're actually as stupid as you act."
"i don't see noise ever being accepted as a legitimate form of artistic expression."
"kanye is at least a good producer joe"
"Like, you're entitled to your opinion if they're not your thing...but I stand by that [LMFAO is] a good musical duo. I listen to them partnered with Chromeo and Far East Movement in my playlists, which are both wonderful and more indy (aside from "Like a G6")."
"So what DOES matter to you in life? Not music, seeing you don't take it seriously"
"Are you allowed to make fun of pople for liking [Haruhi] when you have a new kawaii loli avatar every day?"
i'm random. almost too random. i don't take life seriously except for the things that matter.
"I can tell what you like. Uhm, it's somewhere between noisy shoegaze and indiepop."
"isnt The Gerogerigegege really, really, really terrible?"
"Unless you're on 4Chan, (or you're me) you probably wouldn't even joke about [pedophilia and incest]."
"Ska *is* sped up Jazz with depressing vocals"
"jazz is okay i dunno though it all seems the same. anything that like rly stands out? Good lyrics? something to get high to?"
"No, it's more that I don't 'get' why [The Beatles] are so popular other than maybe being the first mainstream druggie band."
"I'm not a fan of the concept of remixing others' music (especially if it's an artist I respect beforehand) and, you know, I'm not a fan of techno/electronica/whatever you want to call it."
"wacka flocka is a embarrassment to mankind. i dont even consider him a artist."
"I haven't listened to Merzbow in too long. Once my eMusic subscription refreshes, I'm going to go on there and buy as many Merzbow albums as I can get with the 8 credits left after Panic Lift. I love how some of his albums have so few songs that you can get three or four for ten bucks on there."
"[pixies and nirvana] are all good i like them all but nmh and zep is more mature music"
"I always get the feeling that I'm painfully stupid whenever I talk to you."
"I really recommend Coheed & Cambria. Don't yell at me if you don't like Coheed...but I think they're really amazing, the 2nd most creative band of this century"
"As far as I see it, if you dislike that the art is representing or the way it represents it, you should make *good art*, not art that's just the opposite of what people usually see or whatever. It's like the difference between Jandek and The Residents: Jandek is just making music, doing whatever he wants without consciously rejecting musical norms, while The Residents are being as "weird" as they can. One of them is a legitimate form of expression. (It's the first one.)"
"nerdcore is bad rap excused by a gimmick. and you listen to noise, so you can't really go dissing on eurobeat or psytrance. your shit stinks just as bad"
"honestly its rude of you to say that my opinion is any less valid than yours is"
"lol, what is wrong with aphex twin or muziq"
"gabber and happy hardcore etc always struck me as much more acidhead type music, basicaly hippies"
"i need to discovery some good new metal. last one i heard of was ATR"
"i'm still waiting for valid opinions about renard's music"
"Hey, why don't you get a more masculine picture gayboy?"
"Anyway, I wasn't "trolling" Merzbow's shoutbox. I just can't stand fuckin' merzbow posers, and no I don't think you're a poser."
"My Bloody Valentine.... Gorillaz... the BEATLES????? you like the beatles??"
"How does it NOT make sense that people who like a band more will listen to it more, exactly?"
"Meh... [Metal Machine Music] is still awesome, Lou Reed's other music is... something I haven't listened to nor care much seeing the rest is nothing like MMM..."
"Do you honestly get off on simply being antagonistic (hopefully) with tongue firmly planted in cheek ...or is "Obsequeious and Clueless Collossal Asshole" your preferred method of interaction?"
"I always got the impression that the reason why axem performs and makes noise is simply because he couldn't find an outlet, skill or motivation to learn an actual instrument, and noise was the proverbial 'easy way out' to make a racket, call it composition, and get some people to pay attention to you."
"I really think if people are going to make heavy dubstep they should take it seriously and not just produce a bunch of cheasy ass goofy music"
"I only listen to stuff Boris does with artists I like, like merzbow or sunn"
"Axem - I'm asking you to point me toward good music. I'm more than open to it, as long as it's not from fucking Japan or Korea."
"I never understood what was so awesome about the Beatles but whatever."
"Best Wu-Tang is The W."
"I have zero fucking respect for Throbbing Gristle. It's the most terrible music I've ever heard, and not because it's WEIRD, just because it's BAD. In case you didn't read my updated About Me section, I would furthermore like to state that Genesis P-Orridge is a pretentious dick, and all his projects suck."
"this is not noise. whitehouse transcends noise."
"imo I enjoy dubstep stuff when its more used as a garnish
but every fucking dubstep song has wubs in it
so dont fucking tell me that wubs arent part of dubstep""
"I am not really sure why you hate aphex but really? It sounds like you are trolling now."
"Animal Collective are one of the greatest things going today. If you're writing them off because Pitchfork loves them, its probably because a.) you're old or b.) you're one of those Residents fans that also are primarily fans of, like, Kiss and Tool. broaden your horizons, chunga."
"Noise is awful. Noise IS NOT music. I think it's clear."
"What is wrong with Haruhi anyway?"
"so like
does every kind of music need deep musical roots and value to be good now"
"Strength is the only reason I listen to noise. Else it'd be like listening to metal that wasn't heavy...I would say Incapacitants lack harshness."
"Eurobeat is music. Noise is not. There's not more to it than that."
"[Vans Warped Tour] is the only concert with enough bands to satisfy most of my friends."
"I was quick to shut off [Ruins]."
"...merzbow is at least tolerable where as masonna is pretentious garbage who put's all his effort into jumping around like a dick. Noise music (when it's at the point of being pretty much pure noise) doesnt even require much effort in the first place."
"isn't throbbing gristle some kind of noisecore thing?"
"[Visitor Q] is probably the single weirdest/worst movie I saw last year (I'd say two years, but I did see Epic Movie, and nothing is worse than that)."
"Trent is whats right about the music industry.
I love him."
"But then again I don't think you are that much into hardcore music outside of jcore"
"dubstep is mostly dnb that's even more minimal. some of it is fairly dubby though."
"I don't HAVE opinions of noise, i have opinions on the people who listen to noise."
"You know what I do when I'm bored? Read yuri manga! :3"
"I wouldn't put the sanity of somebody who crossdressed and made noise for 15+ years in high regard though."
"Axem your comments towards music do get pretty old though. To some people. You post in basically every thread and I'm sure most people roll their eyes at you. I think it's really funny though."
"Enough with the opinion trolling, dude."
"I also happen to have mars volta, but it's psychedelic rock."
"Skinny Puppy sometimes is pretty harsh for industrial..."
"I write a lot of my noise. I get a concept and I try to work toward that sound. Sometimes it's all improv, sometimes it has a lot more structure and mixing involved. There are many faces to noise and noisers. I would say AxemRangers probably speeds up a bunch of merzbow samples, so no not everyone "writes" noise."
"why does everyone hate dmashura I don't like him but he's not as bad as teisto etc"
"Yeah, because I go to local shows and associate with underground artists I ended up with a bunch of releases that are good, but also pretty much only available from the artist himself. Whom almost no one has heard of."
"well, I'd think if anyone could make a half decent house song, it would be kors k"
"You know who sucks live? John Wiese. I saw him open for Wolf Eyes and if they hadn't made up for his pretentious crap I would've wanted half of my money back, haha."
"Koreans are hot, too, but not nearly as hot as Japanese nekos. >:3"
"I don't like going to see live music, it has nothing to do with the artist being good or not, I just don't find it very entertaining. I don't like how everyone just looks straight ahead and watches the band all nigh, there is no social interaction. It would be cool if everyone walked around and mingled like it was a big party but just staring at the band all night is boring to me."
"All [Fantastic Plastic Machine's] songs are like four seconds of music repeated for six minutes."
"wow its really easy to piss you off!"
"gero are kinda best when they're noisecore"
"Do you actually watch Sailor Moon? Because that's kinda weird."
"courtney love is pretty cool"
"Why dont you come present that to my face while im packing my .45s ya cunt? You think im not on a govt watch list for some sort of anti govt sentiment? Or hording of guns's n ammo?"
"anyway if a band releases an album of just shit then surely they expect people to not bother listening to all their other releases in the hope there's something kinda ok there"
"Hanatarash are really weird and not in a good way if you ask me."
"Holy freaking crap man why are you so abusive. I bet your parents beat you as a child. Seriously, 90% of your shouts are just attacking something or someone."
"You know if America had originality much like JP.
We wouldn't be in this mess in the first place."
"yes I know buckethead sucks, he sucks about as much as merzbow, sunno))), gero, boris, and various other artists you seem to enjoy
the term 'artist' is used loosely here haha"
"Looking past the radio hits and a scant few others, the majority of the Gorillaz discography is at best repetitive ambient and at worst halfhearted and empty."
"Senzuri is trying to communicate with images that don't mean anything to anyone but him. Because it doesn't matter how much time passes, the fact will always remain that anime is for fourteen year old girls."
"pure Harsh Noise isn't music or art and it's not enjoyable. People only pretend to like it because it's obscure and different, and makes them seem 'extreme'."
"year zero remixed is pretty good"
"if you want to have a conversation about music be a man and talk to me on aim."
"My class was trying to find the worst band ever, and not even Anal Cunt and Prussian Blue beat The Residents in popular opinion :)"
"To be honest, even being a fan, noise does get boring after a while. I think it's much better to watch live performances and/or perform yourself, rather than listen at home, save for a few specially unique albums by few specially unique projects."
"well i make informed guestimations i am not stormchasar at least"
"Japanese Producers don't take to dubstep like other artists I've heard. They sort of implement the wubs safely, using them as a garnish rather than the main course."
"although, when I listen to Pink Floyd whilst high I usually start thinking about how great musicians those guys were, and how fucking much it sucks that I didn't live 30 years ago"
"I mean, Nirvana is awfully bland, we both know that. At least you listen to The Pixies (Not to mention all the cool noise, drone & avantgarde), so that should make it up."
"not to mention that aside from his few merzbow cds, i highly doubt axem even has much in the ways of legitimately bought noise music since most of it is swapped on slsk between the indie artists themselves"
"Half the people who listen to noise don't actually appreciate the genre... I like people who really do love noise."
"lol wait, why am i even taking you seriously? you either never turn off your music so you can seem like a \m/ hardcore \m/ music fan, or your life is so incredibly sad you just spend it on the computer. either way, im glad im not you."
"I went to school for architecture. I have run across my fair share of hoity-toity assholes who fancy themselves geniuses in their field. People who really thing they're accomplishing something of great importance in their crumpled sheet of paper their calling a model or their concept of a habitat for people that is a hole in the ground. People eat that shit up so pardon my skepticism when I run across a "noise artist" calling their craft art, or relevant."
"I wouldn't call Coil or Nurse With Wound industrial because I've done my research. You wouldn't call them that either if you had."
"I'm listening to Merzbeat for the first time, and I'm loving it. And it's fun hearing the samples of rock music placed in this context. and axemrangers don't post i know you don't like it"
"look, I will not like noise.
it's not the end of the world dude.
you don't like IDM, when the hell have I jumped on your balls about it.
it's just music, people who overanalyze music kill it for me."
"Sutcliffe Jügend are nazis. and liking music from conspicuously nazis pretty much shows what kind of a guy you are.
i hope that racism won't be tolerated here. and that you shut up about your nazi-acts."
"Sub-par, non threatening slock like the Pixies is listen to every bland person and there pet frat boy these days. I think you get a free copy when you apply for art school. Art fag commies just luuuv it!"
"he does [listen to noise], and I'm fucking sorry I could care less if someone was paied to review albums it the same thing as abstract art in my opinion. on yeah this is awesome, but it's completely based off of absolute nothing no stucture basis or value.
I might as well take a shit in the middle of a room and call it art, but that's just my opinion, to each his own.
I can dissagree and still be wrong, so long as my opinion is respected that shows maturity in the person I'm having the debate with."
"is it ok that I agree with all the quotes on your profile?"
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Using insecure protocols leaves your data and connected machines vulnerable to attack. Remote server management requirements demand that security be given a top priority. This article explains my process for using OpenSSH in unattended scripts and cron jobs.
Most readers are familiar with the secure shell (SSH) protocol, which creates a secure tunnel for commands, data and passwords to travel across the network. Recently, my workplace was faced with some challenges in securely setting up scripts through cron. We use SSH because it resolves the major problems with rsh; rsh sends clear text over the network and has weak host-based authentication. But our challenge became how to deal with password prompts when using SSH in unattended jobs. For example, we run df -k, top and swapon -s to get remote server statistics and alert our team if problems exist.
If you also still are using rsh, the SSH client, ssh, makes a perfect replacement in scripts. Modifications typically are minor. For example:
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simply becomes:
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ssh $host df -k
SSH supports a wide range of authentication systems, the most common being Kerberos, Rhosts, Public-key and Password. Because we didn't have a Kerberos infrastructure in place, our readily available options to solve this problem were to echo the password in the script, use Rhosts, use ssh-agent or use public keys.
Our first options presented some challenges and weaknesses. First, simply echoing the password in a script is not a simple task, as SSH does not read from standard input. To make it do so would require advanced scripting techniques. More important, you would need to put your password either in the script itself or in a file on the filesystem. Although you could set proper permissions, getting access to the password would be a relatively easy task for a determined intruder. It could be as simple as restoring data from a backup or even viewing the password on-screen. This method was not an option for us.
Second, we considered host-based authentication, which is how users executing the rsh command are granted access. Because users are granted or denied access based on the host they are logging in from, no password is needed. This solution may work in some situations where security concerns are light, but the ability to pretend to be another host, to IP spoof and to disrupt DNS does exist. Also, due to the fact that once a host has been impersonated successfully, all users have been compromised on the remote host, we decided we needed something more secure.
Our third option was to use ssh-agent. Before we discuss this option here, though, we need to cover public keys and their use. Instead of using a plain-text password, SSH has the ability to use public key cryptography. This means that when a client connects to a server, it has a conversation with the server and proves its identity based on advanced mathematical computations.
Let's walk through the setup to generate a set of public and private SSH keys to allow a user named scripts to log in from hostA to hostB, assuming the user exists on both hosts:
1) Generate the keys:
[scripts@hostA]$ssh-keygen -t dsa
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/scripts/.ssh/id_dsa):
Created directory '/home/scripts/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): XXXX
Enter same passphrase again: XXXX
Your identification has been saved in /home/scripts/.ssh/id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/scripts/.ssh/
The key fingerprint is:
41:03:aa:dc:cc:b9:39:50:65:bc:ee:7b:36:d2:64:7a scripts@hostA
2) Copy public key to hostB from hostA:
scp /home/scripts/.ssh/ \
scp is an encrypted replacement for rcp and simply copies files in a secured manner.
The authorized_keys file is a file that contains the public identities, or public keys, of users who can log in to your account by using public key authentication. All users maintain their own authorized_keys file, which typically lives in the hidden .ssh directory in a user's home directory. Users also may configure security restrictions to public keys here as well, which we review below.
The authorized_keys file is not created when you first run ssh-keygen to create your public and private keys. As a best practice, we recommend permissions of 600 for this file.
At this point, userA should be able to log in to hostB without a password using public key technology. Now, of course, we still have the same problem with echoing the passphrase into a script. As I mentioned, SSH does not take input from standard input, so this represents the same scripting challenge as before. To eliminate the need to retype your password continually, SSH comes with ssh-agent. You use ssh-agent as follows, in combination with ssh-add:
[scripts@hostA scripts]$ ssh-agent bash
[scripts@hostA .ssh]$ ssh-add id_dsa
Identity added: id_dsa (id_dsa)
We pass our shell to ssh-agent, and it inherits the keys we add with ssh-add. Now we need only type our passphrase once and we can use our key default key,, to be authenticated. An important note about using multiple keys in an interactive session with SSH is how you need to call SSH. For example, if you have created three private keys—your default key, id_dsa, and two other keys called backup and monitor to use for different tasks—you simply would call SSH with the -i parameter. This is done to make sure you're using your new key while logging in to the remote SSH server:
[scripts@hostA]$ssh -i backupkey hostB
When you are using ssh-agent, you may believe you simply type in ssh -i backup to use your backup identity. This is not quite the case, though, as the ssh-agent typically uses the key that is on the top of its key list. To get a listing of all the keys you have loaded in ssh-agent, run ssh-add -l for a listing of fingerprints of all identities currently loaded in the agent:
[scripts@hostA scripts]$ssh-add -l
1024 df:ab:8e:d7:e4:bd:35:f6:b3:2e:76:6b:dd:71:2f:fe monitor (DSA)
1024 4e:4c:00:ba:1e:5d:60:08:f2:b8:2e:d4:59:1e:ff:2f id_dsa (DSA)
1024 0a:72:24:9e:0a:cd:e2:e4:5f:93:cb:ac:66:78:03:f6 backup (DSA)
Because ssh-agent typically favors the key listed first, it favors the monitor key. To be able to use the backup key, you need to unset the shell variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK and then point SSH to the identity you want to use, as follows:
[scripts@hostA scripts]env -u SSH_AUTH_SOCK \
ssh -i backup hostB
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Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-24-2010, 08:53 AM
bad idea: That wou;d taste discusting!
Barrack Obama fighting with a lightsaber in a campaign add.
Working Class Hero
02-24-2010, 04:32 PM
Bad idea. He might accidentally hack his arms off.
Dick Cheney interviewing Osama Bin Laden.
02-24-2010, 05:22 PM
Good Idea: Dick Cheney would get his head blasted off
First killing Doctor Who, then slamming his body against Alkonium's head
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-24-2010, 05:43 PM
good idea: But remember, he can time travel
Tricking Ahsoka into commiting suicide.
02-24-2010, 06:50 PM
I exist outside the laws of space and time, and thus is his downfall
Bad Idea: I like it, but Anakin's Emo side would emerge earlier, and we all hate him
Shooting Palpatine for just annoying me
02-24-2010, 07:03 PM
Bad idea, if such a charachter actually existed. Besides, you'd just be ruining a perfectly good tv/monitor IRL (or other piece of plastic/paper).
Traversing the multiverse and getting stuck in a RL SW setting.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-25-2010, 05:17 PM
good idea: that would be fun!
if ahsoka won't commit suicide, how about we hire a male togruta to steal her heart and then break up with her after she falls madly in love with him and then her heart will be broken and she will die.
02-25-2010, 09:36 PM
Bad idea, we already know that she is out the picture for the OT, so obsessing over her negatively is just a wasting time.
Creating a new musical fusion of death metal and porno groove called screaming sex metal.
Darth Avlectus
02-25-2010, 10:18 PM
Excellent idea. Where can I sign up? :dev9:
Visiting 4 chan and betting on the expectation of your brains to not be scrambled and ****ed up after 3 hours.
02-25-2010, 10:50 PM
Bad idea, though I stopped reading at "Visiting 4 chan"
Someone starting up a forum game here called "Sexually arouse the poster below you."
Darth Avlectus
02-25-2010, 11:03 PM
Bad Idea: You'd get nailed with a pedophelia charge or soliciting a minor, or contributing to their dilenquency...or something like that.
I'd be up for it if this were an 18+ forum--not like the posters and their images are anyone who you'd meet IRL. However, Fry's Electronics made me do something really naughty last week. *blush*
Sticking your tongue to the terminals of a car battery.
02-25-2010, 11:29 PM
Bad Idea: Shocking isn't it?
Jumping into a TV
Darth Avlectus
02-26-2010, 12:05 AM
Bad idea as either one of you or both of you will not come off it very well...but that's to be expected if you ever try doing Jackass at home or you try out for Back Yard Wrestling.
Wiping yourself off with a furry rodent.
02-26-2010, 01:52 PM
Bad idea, that just makes things worse.
Selling something on eBay, and instead of sending it, sending a box full of live spiders to the buyer.
02-26-2010, 02:06 PM
Good idea, since the buyer was probably going to take it and send a complaint that they got the wrong item anyway.
Selling a giant box of live spiders on eBay, but instead sending a yourself wearing a spider costume, hugging the buyer and running away. While singing a screaming sex metal song.
Where can I sign up?
PM me, the band's looking for a keyboardist and a drummer. Bonus points if you can sing, scream, or have sex in front of a mic.
02-26-2010, 04:10 PM
Bad idea. Who'd knowingly buy a giant box of live spiders? (I'm about to be really sorry I asked that, aren't I?)
Me joining Hallucination's Screaming Sex Metal band as lead vocalist.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-26-2010, 04:16 PM
bad idea: Sex Bands never last
Buying BioWare and tell everybody to stop with the MMO and instead work on a K3.
02-26-2010, 07:22 PM
Bad idea. Most people are actually looking forward to TOR now.
Using Darth Banana to make Banana Bread.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-26-2010, 07:40 PM
good idea: Banana bread is good no matter what is cooked into it
Stealing the LF URL and selling it on Ebay.
Darth Avlectus
02-26-2010, 09:04 PM
Good idea, I wanna watch some of our admin and staff get really pissed off about it. :p
Putting a telephone in a dishwasher.
Eh, I'm not particularly good with either of those instruments...with Alk now the vocalist... You really sure you want me naked on the stage with 2 cute gigantic danish women? :naughty:
02-26-2010, 10:47 PM
Bad Idea: electricutes you
Shooting Doctor who then cooking Alkonium into cooked meat.
02-27-2010, 02:13 AM
Bad idea if you're normal, but if you're a cannibal....
Pealing Darth Banana and feeding him to GTA's monkey army.
02-27-2010, 10:07 AM
Bad Idea: If you attempt to peel me, I will release my superawesome nuclear explosion
(someone trys to peel banana)
Starting up a band to boycott LA's recent productions
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-27-2010, 10:18 AM
good idea: Maybe this time they will listen!
Blow up Corascaunt
02-27-2010, 10:58 AM
Bad Idea. I've never heard of Corascaunt.
Trying to sell a drug called Hallucinex.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
02-27-2010, 11:14 AM
good idea: "I am your pusha"
Convincing Jae Onasi to beatbox
02-27-2010, 03:54 PM
Bad idea, it would never work because there is no such thing as Christian beatboxing.
Making muzak versions of screaming sex metal songs.
Bad Idea. I've never heard of Corascaunt.
Trying to sell a drug called Hallucinex.
Wouldn't that just be name brand acid?
02-28-2010, 11:48 PM
Um, probably.
Pointless idea. There are no screaming sex metal songs ... yet.
Making the blue screen of death red instead.
03-01-2010, 01:04 AM
Neutral. As long as it ain't pink, doesn't matter much.
Make Alk write a screaming sex metal song as the new intro for Dr. Who.
03-01-2010, 01:15 AM
****ing awesome idea.
Me posting my entry into a contest for 1 year's tuition in Ahto.
03-01-2010, 08:02 PM
Bad idea. That's what's called plagiarism bait, even though I may have just coined that phrase now.
Making an icepack with a bunch of icecubes and a sock, and then microwaving it.
Darth Avlectus
03-01-2010, 08:11 PM
Idea depends on situation and context: I happen to know ice cubes can crackle and come apart violently under certain conditions. :dev9:
There are no screaming sex metal songs ... yet.
Oh no? Then what is that one Cradle of Filth song?
Pruning some power lines with a chainsaw.
03-01-2010, 08:23 PM
Good idea, especially if done to songs like Shock the Monkey, You Shook Me All Night Long (or at least long enough to almost kill me), etc....
Playing a variation of Russian Roullette with 3 bullets instead of one and where you point the gun at the person to your left.
03-01-2010, 08:35 PM
Good Idea, especially when played with people you don't like.
Deep-frying a car battery.
Darth Avlectus
03-01-2010, 10:14 PM
Interesting idea if you mean that in cooking grease. :p
Irritating Francis on L4d when he says you got a pretty mouth.
03-01-2010, 10:37 PM
Never played it, but guessing whoever did it in game had better be well armed...
Throwing stones at people who live in glass houses.
Darth Avlectus
03-02-2010, 05:39 PM
Good idea if you don't live in a glass house yourself.
Trying to hitch a ride with Lloyd and Harry.
03-03-2010, 05:58 PM
Good Idea. There's never boring.
Serrated spoons.
Darth Avlectus
03-04-2010, 03:49 PM
Good idea if you don't mind getting cut every time you eat with it.
Bungie jumping out a ten story window, juggalo status. (Hint: song called "What is a Juggalo?")
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-06-2010, 07:38 PM
good idea: COWABUNGA
Taking Kreia to prom
Tobias Reiper
03-06-2010, 07:43 PM
Good idea: Guarantees you have enough space on the dance floor, and you might even get a chance to humiliate her in front of everyone.
Joining the Mafia.
03-06-2010, 07:43 PM
Bad Idea: she will expose your ugliness :xp:
Having a staring contest all night
Tobias Reiper
03-06-2010, 07:45 PM
Bad Idea: The lack of sleep'll make you drowsy during the night and you'll just fall asleep.
Answering my ideas, just like how Darth Banana did-oh wait.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-07-2010, 07:25 AM
bad idea: I don't like your ideas
hacking someone's WOW account and changing their password!
03-07-2010, 07:37 AM
Good Idea. That game is horrible.
Putting a virus on WoW's central server.
03-07-2010, 04:38 PM
Bad idea, if someone is having fun playing a game you don't like why do you want to ruin their time? Do you see WoW players crashing the RP forums on LF?
Making Failure and Hum DLC for Rock Band.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-09-2010, 04:45 PM
good idea: It is so funny when they screw up!
playing Age of Empires for 94 hours strait.
03-09-2010, 07:31 PM
Bad idea, but it doesn't really matter which game.
Cramming multiple game discs into a console in an attempt to create a twisted hybrid game.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-09-2010, 08:32 PM
good idea: Now we can play Knights of the Halo EmpiresCraft!
buying a PS3.
03-09-2010, 08:51 PM
Good idea, it's not like it's February 29, 2010 anymore.
Building a time machine that will make you travel forwards in time at a rate of 1.
Making Failure and Hum DLC for Rock Band.good idea: It is so funny when they screw up!
Are you saying that adding two of the best bands ever to Rock Band would be a screw up? :carms:
03-09-2010, 09:18 PM
Neutral. One what?
Being indestructible AND insufferable.
Darth Avlectus
03-10-2010, 10:32 PM
Neutral: Not sure how that'd work to be honest.
GMOD IDIOT BOX [special]: The fall of Nanci Pelosi in the cave of the ancient voodoodick.
03-11-2010, 05:09 AM
OK. Anything deriding Pelosi is probably good, even if it's bad.
Sexaroids for eunuchs.
03-11-2010, 05:50 PM
Pointless idea. What are they going to do with them?
Mixing aphrodisiacs and steroids.
03-11-2010, 06:44 PM
Bad idea, muscleheads have to few active brain cells as it is.
Pimping the neighbors wives.
03-11-2010, 06:49 PM
Depends on the sort of relationship you have with your neighbour and his/her wife(s).
A YouTube series in which you determine how safe things are to eat by eating them, called "Is It A Good Idea To Eat This?".
03-11-2010, 09:09 PM
Depends. If you're Andrew Zimmern, it probably seems like a good idea.
Winning $100 million in the lottery and having everyone, everywhere, know it was you.
03-11-2010, 09:32 PM
Bad idea. To quote a certain Rush song, "Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more."
Wearing googles completely wrapped in tinfoil to protect your eyes, because noone likes roasted eyes.
Darth Avlectus
03-11-2010, 09:53 PM
Good, to a point, if you don't need to see anything.
Cavity searching paris hilton (I mean, we all know how much she uses that part of her body for other things, anyways).
03-11-2010, 10:02 PM
Bad idea, without a hazmat suit.
Using batteries as kindling in a campfire.
Darth Avlectus
03-11-2010, 10:17 PM
Excellent idea, I just love it how they pop and explode caustic fluid.
Making love to a bee hive.
03-12-2010, 02:27 AM
Good idea, that way you can make jokes to your 'sweet thang'.
Making a beeline to a love hive.
03-12-2010, 01:38 PM
Depends on the kind of loving in question.
Playing ninja peek-a-boo w/GTA.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-12-2010, 03:36 PM
good idea: he still has a baby in him!
Painting a smile on the Mona Lisa and making her stare less......creepy.
03-12-2010, 03:56 PM
Bad idea. Whenever you try to make something less creepy, you end up making it much worse.
YouTube charging for the right to upload certain types of content. (ie, $15 a month to show fire, $20 a month to show animals, and so on and so forth)
03-12-2010, 04:02 PM
Bad idea. I'd go broke uploading videos of animals on fire. :dev11:
Pouring napalm on an ants nest.
03-12-2010, 04:20 PM
What about ants nest?
Checking over your spelling before posting.
03-12-2010, 04:53 PM
Horrible idea, that would make fewer lulz to go around.
Only making funny posts for the rest of your life.
Bad idea. I'd go broke uploading videos of animals on fire. :dev11: [/goodchristianboy]
Fixed that for you.
03-12-2010, 05:04 PM
I'm already doing that, so good idea.
Fixed that for you.
Having a little trouble discerning a serious remark from a sarcastic one Hal? :xp:
Duel booting Windows Vista and Windows Me on a Mac. :whacked:
03-12-2010, 06:46 PM
Bad idea, duelling OS's just ruin your hard drive.
Building a 2-in-1 toaster/PC.
You must be getting your minerals, 'cause I just found some irony. o_Q
03-12-2010, 07:24 PM
Good Idea, I always crave toast when I'm at the computer.
Building a 2-in-1 loaf of bread/toaster.
Darth Avlectus
03-12-2010, 07:29 PM
Only a good idea if you don't mind shorting-out the computer bit, if not overloading it from the heat. That is if it doesn't trip your electrical breakers with the amount of current running through that.
good idea: he still has a baby in him!
You're obviously not aware of the "ninja" I'm talking about. :naughty:
Running around with your orgy harem in the cold right now, each in nothing but a thong.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-12-2010, 07:48 PM
bad idea: Only Muslims have Herems!
Burning down Harvard
03-12-2010, 07:50 PM
Bad idea, unless you're an anti-intellectual.
Partially crossdressing to prove a point about gender equality.
03-12-2010, 08:04 PM
Bad idea. Ever since the invention of camera phones and the internet, just no.
Touche'. o_Q
Shaving rats and using them for hood ornaments.
03-12-2010, 10:05 PM
Bad idea. What do you have against animals, anyway?
Finding out what Te Melanin Man o' War has against animals.
Darth Avlectus
03-12-2010, 10:16 PM
Yes, good idea. I am especially interested since I own a rat or two right now in fact.
bad idea: Only Muslims have Herems!
Harems can be had by anyone, they're just largely associated with moslems. :carms: I *can* have my harem of people, sexariod dolls, and farm animals and *not* believe in Islam!
Bad idea, unless you're an anti-intellectual.
That...Or you have been contracted in secret by a competing university to do so and paid handsomely. Knowing you Alk, that could mean any one of several things. :devsmoke:
Shaving rats and using them for hood ornaments.
I have rats as pets. :mad:
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PWNING Dr. Hax when he least suspects.
03-12-2010, 10:47 PM
Bad idea. He'll be back.
I saw a rat in the barn recently. Just nearly crawled up my boot. I don't like rats.
Using a combination of napalm and fireworks to create the best 4th of July display ever.
Darth Avlectus
03-12-2010, 11:22 PM
Ooh, pretty. I'd be down for that. Also, take some Heet brand antifreeze (it's ethyl alcohol or something like that) and mix in some boric acid powder (roach killer)--be careful as both of these are extremely toxic--then ignite it and you have green fire as well. There was also something else you could by boiling some ferrous liquid similar to hematite and it made purple clouds and it trails red once it catches on ceilings or walls and condensed again in liquid form. (Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Know what the magical stuff is called?)
(BTW, oh, that's right you live in a farming community where they are nuisances, mybad)
Sequel to Angry Cat Man's "Yelling at cats" video.
Te Darasuum Mandalor
03-13-2010, 06:24 AM
bad idea: His mama is the only one who appreciates those videos!
Getting drunk from the wine at Church.
03-13-2010, 02:53 PM
Well, for me it would be a bad idea because it means that I only show up to get inebriated, but for a more regular churchgoer it'd probably be alright to get drunk every once in a while. I mean, if the priest is alright with it.
Moonwalking on Saturn.
03-13-2010, 03:16 PM
Bad idea, not much to walk on.
Caffeinated beer.
03-13-2010, 06:02 PM
Good idea, but I'm pretty sure that it's already around. But if not, the caffeine would make people think that it makes them sober up, and then the placebo effect will hit, which will make them act less like idiots, so everyone wins.
Dropping out of an engineering program to double major in Theatre and Women's Studies.
While being a dude.
03-13-2010, 07:55 PM
Depends on why.
Doing this:
Darth Avlectus
03-14-2010, 05:47 PM
^^^From a serious standpoint, however, you're not exactly counteracting one another with caffeine vs alcohol. I may be being too scientific about it but it's true that your system really is having a hard time compensating and keeping up when you do this: your body is reacting to both at the same time and sending out signals according to both. Your system panics. BAD, bad idea.
From a flavorful standpoint: Already tried, results vary. Blueberry soda and lager isn't too bad, actually. Some, on the other hand taste just awful. :p
Hotsauce enema.
03-15-2010, 12:17 AM
Depends.....are you giving or receiving? ;)
Being crazy as a loon and still running for public office.
03-15-2010, 07:44 AM
Good idea, elections can get pretty boring when all the candidates are sane.
Wearing this:
03-15-2010, 09:52 AM
For me? Bad idea, I don't have the bust for it.
DMing a D&D game just to kill all your players.
03-15-2010, 11:11 AM
Good idea, until they catch on.
Diamond-studded fruitcake. And I mean real, proper diamonds, not edible, fake diamonds.
03-15-2010, 12:37 PM
Good idea....if the idea of ****ting tiffany cuff links appeals to you.
Being granted the power of Midas' Touch (and no, you've got no control over the outcome).
Darth Avlectus
03-15-2010, 06:07 PM
Good idea provided you have proper disclaimers and waivers in order.
Pulling an "NMIAD" to cut costs. (Ninja Mission of Irresponsible Appliance Disposal) :dev9:
03-15-2010, 08:32 PM
Good idea, after the novelty wears off I'd be an insane super villain, and be covered in textbooks for centuries to come.
Good idea, proper disposal and recycling cause global warming.
Being granted the power to meticulously review textbooks (and yes, you have to fact-check old editions and new additions).
03-15-2010, 09:28 PM
Good idea. Someone has to do it.
Taking unintentionally creepy things, and trying to make them less creepy.
03-15-2010, 11:10 PM
Bad idea. Given the vagaries of everyones' personal phobias, you'll have time for little else.
Banning clueless morons from your place of business.
Darth Avlectus
03-15-2010, 11:10 PM
Neutral: Mixed results, but common sense suggests morons (as these things go) your efforts shall be in vain b/c what you go in intending to make better may well end up worse off. Sometimes it can be made better.
Appealing for the creation of a merit patch: "jackass of LF" b/c you post extensively in the games section. Requirements: You aren't exactly funny like a jester but amusing nonetheless to at least 3 other members and have 1500 posts here in this section. C'mon, whadya think fellas (and ladies if we have any here, in any form)?
03-16-2010, 01:41 AM
Neutral. Not b/c it's a good/bad idea, but b/c they don't count these posts and would probably just ignore the request.
Putting LF out of business.
03-16-2010, 01:58 AM
Bad idea: if we did that the LF Jonas Brothers would spread across the internet like the real Jonas Brothers, and we can't have that happening.
Building a time machine only to go back in time and kill yourself before you start working on it.
Darth Avlectus
03-16-2010, 11:26 AM
Bad idea: You'll paradox the entire universe. I'm gonna be pretty pissed off if you paradox everything and I miss my rat porn.:mad:
Canadian bacon of a unique kind at a restaurant (hint: sig). :dev9:
03-16-2010, 12:07 PM
Good idea. Just don't call it the Soylent Green breakfast special.
Pitching a battle between the trebuchet monkey army and a bunch of zombies.
03-16-2010, 03:26 PM
Good idea. Lemme grab my popcorn and an umbrella.
Playing "ding-dong-ditch" with Death's door.
Darth Avlectus
03-17-2010, 01:59 AM
Good idea if you're Simon Belmont, IIRC Death didn't come off too well.
Mowing the lawn of a landmine field...full of stench mines.
03-17-2010, 02:13 AM
Good idea, if someone does that the mines will be disabled and then people would be able to enjoy the newly mowed grass. It's a way of taking one for the team.
DMing a game of D&D just to say 'rocks fall on you, you die' right before what would be a climactic boss fight.
Darth Avlectus
03-18-2010, 03:56 PM
^^^Neutral: Okay, if that's how you want it but as you imply it's kind of anti climactic. :indif:
Hot chainsaws through huge blocks of butter.
03-18-2010, 05:57 PM
Good idea, for entertainment purposes. Practically, the whole premise is a bit ridiculous.
Chugging a few tankards of Tabasco sauce.
Darth Avlectus
03-18-2010, 10:56 PM
Good idea if you're constipated or have sinus congestion.
Taking off all your clothes.......and running up and bear hugging a cactus.
03-18-2010, 11:19 PM
Good idea. Makes for good laughs if gotten on tape. Bad idea if you want to have kids.
Melting chocolate into the keyboard of your laptop and trying to get the insurance on it.
03-18-2010, 11:26 PM
Bad idea. They can spot deliberate stuff.
A fetish involving fire and/or chainsaws.
Darth Avlectus
03-18-2010, 11:39 PM
Good idea if you *aren't* the main object of their efforts. BAD idea if you are.
Lighting up in an barn full of corn powder in the air.
03-19-2010, 12:34 AM
Bad idea. Just, no.
Creating an immensely lame horror movie and submitting it to a large studio.
Darth Avlectus
03-19-2010, 12:43 AM
Neutral: Already been done...some making ridiculous amounts of fortune. Others failing horribly.
Feeding grasshoppers to pet rats.
03-19-2010, 03:21 PM
Good idea if you can get the rats to eat them, otherwise you're just having some would-be food jumping around in a cage.
Feeding rats to pet grasshoppers.
Bad idea. They can spot deliberate stuff.
That, plus they'd keep the chocolate.
Darth Avlectus
03-19-2010, 05:54 PM
Bad idea if you value the lives of your grasshoppers. If they don't care to eat they kill the grasshoppers anyways.
Barbecued paint with wood chips.
03-26-2010, 01:15 PM
Bad idea, the paint would just spill over the grill and cover the charcoal.
A Star Wars game with all the text in Aurebesh.
Darth Avlectus
03-26-2010, 09:50 PM
Good idea if you understand Aruebesh, if not...well... :giveup:
Dropping a cryogenically frozen Jason Voorhees into the sun.
03-26-2010, 10:52 PM
Good Idea. He deserves it.
Deep frying Freddy Krueger.
Darth Avlectus
03-26-2010, 11:01 PM
Great Idea: that bastard deserves to burn.
Using an electromagnet on Pinface and exposing him to the sun.
03-30-2010, 11:11 AM
Good idea. He is the guy from Hellraiser, right?
Doctor Who writers going out of their way to give children nightmares.
Darth Avlectus
03-31-2010, 01:43 AM
Neutral: Can't comment on the Canadian society, but for sure it might end up having a somewhat opposite effect since America's children are so desensitized.
Closing your eyes and me showing your face.
03-31-2010, 01:54 AM
Bad idea, I have no idea what you'll do with my face when I'm not looking.
Calling STO players STOners.
Darth Avlectus
03-31-2010, 08:33 PM
Neutral: I thought STO was short for Standing Trip Over. :D
Letting your male cat fall in love with your neighbor's heater so it pulls a Chapelle.
04-04-2010, 08:28 PM
Futile idea, my two cats (both male) were neutered.
Using "so thick you could cut it with a knife" to describe a person.
Darth Avlectus
04-05-2010, 06:20 PM
Excellent idea because the truer it is, the slower they are.
Must be a tamer specimen, I had a male cat as a kid and even after neutering him, he'd still mark stuff. He lived outside, was still really wild, and...dogs stayed away from him most the time.
Beating down a combine soldier.
04-05-2010, 06:36 PM
Good idea, if successful, you'll inspire others to do the same an begin an uprising!
Microwaving a metal travel mug/water bottle.
04-05-2010, 07:42 PM
Good idea, warm drinks on the go are ftw.
Microwaving a metal travel mug only to stay at home for the night.
04-05-2010, 07:54 PM
Bad idea, you'll have killed a microwave for nothing.
Writing a vampire novel, advertising it in such a way that it appeals to Twilight fans, but in reality, it's vampires are the most horrifying, terrifying and nightmarish vampires ever.
Darth Avlectus
04-05-2010, 11:53 PM
Good idea, because any moron that loved twilight because of its genius in literature (Haven't read it--just going off opinions and revue by trustworthy intellectual friends!) deserves to at least be made to retract those words before the intellectuals go blowing off some nuggets. (Though I wouldn't mind the bloodbath! :dev9:)
Using an induction heater for a copper vapor laser that has a quartz discharge cavity tube. (Need help? http://repairfaq.org/sam/laserfaq.htm It should be between HeHg and Dye laser sections--if you don't mind reading a bunch.)
04-12-2010, 09:57 PM
Bad idea, it still needs insulation.
Giving zombies the "Twilight treatment".
Darth Avlectus
04-12-2010, 11:38 PM
Good idea, necrophilia is always fun. Especially with dead mothers.
A rocket shopping cart going off a jump and trying to fly from Coreleone's mansion in lake tahoe, flying accross the lake to the stateline town.
04-13-2010, 10:51 AM
If someone's in the cart, bad idea. If the cart is unmanned, good idea. Everyone loves spectacle.
An aggressive anti-bullying initiative/campaign called Eliminate Bullying, Eliminate Bullies.
04-13-2010, 12:47 PM
I like it. Where do I sign up?
A crossover between "Doctor Who" and "Twilight."
04-13-2010, 01:02 PM
Good idea, if it involves Edward and Bella getting Exterminated by Daleks, Deleted by Cybermen, or eaten by Vashta Nerada.
Watching every video by fred on YouTube.
Darth Avlectus
04-13-2010, 03:11 PM
:barf: Bad idea, there's more constructive things to do than that--even for us.
Stopping to think.
04-13-2010, 06:03 PM
good idea, you might get something useful done.
a watch that tells the time everywhere in the world, at the touch of the button(one time at a time ya know)
04-13-2010, 06:56 PM
Bad idea for just a watch. Too much of a hassle just to know local time.
A wristwatch that automatically adjusts for time zone and daylight savings.
Darth Avlectus
04-13-2010, 08:37 PM
Excellent idea--in fact I believe there already are watches which do that. And camera watches, and laser watches, and all sorts of other fascinating gadgets--sorta like the old show Dick Tracy--around long before James Bond I might add.
Using xenon as an active medium gas in a pulsed multigas laser.
04-13-2010, 11:34 PM
Good idea if it works......better idea if it's volatile and doesn't. Spectacles are always nice to watch.
Lynching politicians.
Darth Avlectus
04-14-2010, 12:24 AM
Good idea. 'Nuff said.
Playing clay shooting with discs of manure instead, over an outdoor rave dancefloor.
04-14-2010, 09:39 AM
Bad idea, unless you let the manure harden.
Asking "Have you decreased in mass?" in stead of "Have you lost weight?"
04-14-2010, 03:44 PM
Good idea. No need to explain, just good.
Deleting every Fred video on YouTube.
04-14-2010, 03:47 PM
Bad idea. The person behind Fred (Fred's actually fictional) is a YouTube partner, and thus makes money off the ad revenue, probably as a full time job.
Microwaving a bottle of beer.
04-14-2010, 06:40 PM
bad idea, bad taste.
Eating a whole block of cheese.
Darth Avlectus
04-14-2010, 08:07 PM
Neutral: you have to consider flavor, smell, and calories and the tradeoffs as well as relative size.
Sneaking up to Slick Rick, and snatching off his eyepatch. (Ladee-dadee)
04-14-2010, 11:56 PM
Bad idea, I'm assuming there's a reason for the name.
Based on the video below, replacing elections with a system in which all the candidates are stuck in a giant microwave, and the last one standing is appointed to the position.
Darth Avlectus
04-15-2010, 12:23 AM
Great idea: ultimately nobody is left standing. And no politician is trustworthy anyways.
BTW, I'm sure I could troubleshoot what went wrong with it. Hell anyone could--it isn't really rocket science. Though off hand I would estimate it's kind of obvious as the thing probably overheated or overdrew current (from abnormal contents to be processed :rolleyes:) and blew a fuse in the mains. That or the Triac/SCR switcher got toasted. Microwaves, though lethally dangerous, are not all that complicated to troubleshoot and repair. http://repairfaq.org/sam/micfaq.htm
Eating a bowl of cluster bombs and spreading a jelly fish on your toast.
04-15-2010, 09:36 AM
Bad Idea: exploding is not a cool way to go, sorta.
Running into a Wal-Mart with a Pear wearing a turban and screaming "Allah Allah Allah", "Jihad Jihad."
04-15-2010, 09:39 AM
Good idea, not much harm you could do with a pear, and it can get pretty boring in there at times.
My previous idea, but with effigies instead of the actual candidates.
Darth Avlectus
04-15-2010, 03:58 PM
Neutral: That would depend upon that the effigies in question are made out of...
Sending a swat team after Jason Voorhees in hopes their combined efforts would at last destroy him.
04-17-2010, 09:49 AM
Bad Idea: That guy has a machette
Lighting GTA:SW on fire.
Darth Avlectus
04-17-2010, 04:40 PM
Bad idea: If I fart while you try, YOU'LL be the one to end up on fire.
Getting on the GMOD idiot box professor's bad side if you don't want to hear the most annoying sound in the world. (hint to those not in the know: just watch a few episodes on YT to get an idea what I'm talking about. :p)
04-17-2010, 04:46 PM
Bad idea, that's more than just that sound waiting for you.
Novelising episodes of YouTube shows like "Will It Blend?" or "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?"
Darth Avlectus
04-20-2010, 01:34 AM
Neutral: While I'd be all for that idea...if you're doing that for a profit that's going to be a bit of a snag...
Having Christopher Lee as your passenger in your monster truck while you do a triple duty rodeo-cruncho grand championship.
04-20-2010, 09:32 AM
Good idea, Christopher Lee makes everything awesome.
On principle, refusing to take any job that requires you to wear a red shirt.
Darth Avlectus
04-20-2010, 06:47 PM
Unknown to Neutral: Why????????
Calling beating-to-knockoff contests with the GTA San Andreas 'purple toy' atop the "giant bridge" beat-off contests.
04-20-2010, 07:05 PM
No. Just, no.
@GTA: Redshirts always die. You ever watch Star Trek? :xp:
Sticking your hand in an active toaster with a tendency to have "shocking" properties.
04-20-2010, 07:15 PM
Bad idea, you won't be able to tell which burns are from what.
Microwaving a car battery.
Darth Avlectus
04-20-2010, 08:28 PM
Neutral: The car battery won't really get much harm, and the microwave will just keck.
@ mandalor: Apparently not enough trek to get that...and I watched a bit here and there.
Microwaving mostly expired (translation: un-lit and now physically compromised outer casing) Pyro that you just found out is bad b/c your rats have been nesting in there when they decide to run off. (True story btw.)
04-21-2010, 12:23 PM
Bad idea, there's probably something still potent in there.
Whether you mean it or not, leaving a note on your fridge saying "Gone out murderin', be back around five." when you leave the house.
Darth Avlectus
04-21-2010, 05:19 PM
Good idea if
1) you live alone
2) you live with anyone else who understands that line of humor.
Bad idea for people who live with someone who wouldn't understand.
.......all the while I'm not even counting whether or not one actually intends to carry out that note...:indif:
Trying to get jiggy with Halibel from Bleach and yet being nowhere near as powerful as she.
04-22-2010, 04:30 PM
Bad idea. If you fail, she could reject you violently. If you succeed, let's just say she might not know her own strength.
Answering "Outranking you." to the question "Where do you see yourself in X number of years?" at a job interview.
04-22-2010, 06:10 PM
Bad Idea: no job for you!
Stealing Mike Tyson's tiger.
Darth Avlectus
04-22-2010, 06:19 PM
Only a good idea if you have sufficient tranquilizers! (Well, actually you might need a bit of hand to hand combat experience on how to beat a boxer far out of his prime.)
Attempting to assassinate Dr. Wily.
04-22-2010, 06:53 PM
Good idea, assuming you know what to expect.
A webseries called "Why It's A Bad Idea", in which the host takes bad ideas, and follows them through.
04-22-2010, 06:58 PM
Okay idea, as long as no one popular is the host. And I'm not familiar with the show, but didn't Jackass do something pretty much like that?
Performing all the ideas in this thread. At the same time.
Darth Avlectus
04-22-2010, 09:44 PM
Impossible idea: Ehh, no...just......no. Not gonna happen. Impossible, or is it?
Giving lolly-pops free with cavity searches.
04-23-2010, 12:45 AM
Good idea, anything to make them feel better afterwards.
Duct tape replacing all other types of adhesives.
04-23-2010, 09:38 AM
Bad Idea: Duct tape band-aids would hurt man!
Drink a litre of Iced tea every day.
04-23-2010, 02:31 PM
'Round here it's a bad idea, that stuff's pretty much the same as pop, but in the U.S. it'd just be tea with ice in it, so that wouldn't be bad. Especially if it was one of those healthy hippy teas.
Telling your friends to watch out when they drink water because it's molten hot.
Bad Idea: Duct tape band-aids would hurt man!
Or they would breed a species of super-tough humans.
Darth Avlectus
04-23-2010, 07:41 PM
Good idea unless it does no good--I'd rather not see any friends injured that way or in any way, really.
Shaking up your chocolate milk by putting it in a crate made of resilient material and letting it tumble down 3 flights of stairs.
04-23-2010, 08:33 PM
Neutral. Seems like a waste of energy to just shake up some chocolate milk.
Pitching a battle between the flying monkeys of The Wizard of Oz and the doody flinging trebuchet monkey army that was formerly loyal to GTA?
Darth Avlectus
04-26-2010, 03:06 PM
I don't see how cousins would fight each other.
"Inflating" someone like a balloon--not to death, just all puffed-up like. (Well maybe in the case of George Soros I'll make an exception for the to death part :devsmoke:).
04-26-2010, 03:22 PM
Bad idea, there's no way to do that without killing the person.
Deep frying an airbag, but instead of carefully lowering the airbag into the deep fryer with a basket, throwing it in.
04-26-2010, 08:52 PM
Well, if there's a decent explosion and you don't get winged by shrapnel...what the hell, why not.
Using mind control to make all software companies sign over the rights to their products to you.
Darth Avlectus
04-27-2010, 03:09 AM
Good idea, I'd take the money I made from all that and abolish people that piss me off.
Having scratched yerself under the covers of your drawers just before the campus security officer (who incidentally didn't catch that) sneaks up on you suspecting you and your friends of drug possession and does a hand sniff inspection. (true story btw :xp:)
04-27-2010, 01:47 PM
^Good idea, unless your crotch smells like pot for some reason.
Dressing up as Optimus Prime and having a friend dress up as a salmon and humping each other on public transit.
04-27-2010, 02:07 PM
Good idea, if you want to end up on Picture Is Unrelated.
What he said, but with you dressing up as a friend, and Optimus Prime dressing up as a salmon.
Darth Avlectus
04-27-2010, 02:49 PM
Good idea, another pic unrelated snapshot.
Learning stunt man falling techniques before working as an attic insulation handyman.
04-27-2010, 04:37 PM
Good idea. Installing insulation can be tricky biz sometimes.
Conning idiots out of their SSI "crazy" checks.
Darth Avlectus
04-28-2010, 02:40 AM
Bad Idea: do you really want the kind of drama associated with that even IF you manage to evade legal repurcussions? I mean these people, though cons many of them, are still kinda unhinged.
Betting on trying to trap MacGyver.
04-28-2010, 03:24 PM
Good idea. How can he escape w/o first being trapped. ;)
Betting McGyver will stay trapped.
04-28-2010, 04:29 PM
Bad idea. He can use that extra screw to escape.
Betting on a fight between MacGyver and MacGruber. >_>
Darth Avlectus
04-28-2010, 06:31 PM
Funny idea...just because...
Beavis and Butt-Head VS Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunn.
05-01-2010, 09:47 AM
Good Idea, whoever wins, the world will be a little less stupid.
Using green spray paint to maintain your lawn.
Darth Avlectus
05-01-2010, 12:31 PM
Good idea if the lawn isn't real.
Juggalo bungie jumping (ref: ICP song "what is a juggalo" hint: 10 story window).
05-14-2010, 06:47 PM
Good idea, they creep me out.
As a prank, emptying all the milk cartons/bottles/bags in the nearest fridge, and filling them with white paint.
05-14-2010, 07:52 PM
Bad idea. I got caught the last time.
Attempting to fire long range buckshot from a 12 gauge shotgun with one hand after drinking.
05-14-2010, 11:21 PM
Good idea.......if the gun is in a vise. ;)
Hunting w/Dick Cheney after a few beers. :devsmoke:
05-15-2010, 12:20 AM
Bad idea. I'd hate to hurt him.
Going hunting with Palpatine after a few Correllian ales.
05-15-2010, 02:14 AM
Bad idea. Force Lightning eliminates the challenge.
Never breaking eye contact or blinking at a job interview.
05-15-2010, 02:35 PM
If you're applying for the graveyard shift at a gas station that'd probably be a good idea, otherwise not so much.
Applying for the graveyard shift at an insurance company.
Darth Avlectus
05-18-2010, 05:09 PM
Bad idea if they only have 9-5 hours because then there is no such thing as graveyard unless you're a night janitor and I think only illegal aliens are given that position.
Putting your face abruptly and randomly in the boobs of the loud rambunctious drunken amazon.
05-20-2010, 01:50 AM
Hmm.....that could go either way. I'll say neutral idea.
Partying w/GWAR.
05-20-2010, 03:21 PM
Bad idea, everyone one of those guys make me look sane.
Losing your virginity.....TO A 80 YEAR OLD COUGAR! :naughty: (MEOW.)
05-20-2010, 08:43 PM
Good idea. She'd definitely know what she was doing.
While working directly with customers, never breaking eye contact, never blinking, and being unimaginably enthusiastic.
05-20-2010, 09:05 PM
Bad idea, you might just scare them away.
Announcing your undying support for Israel in earshot of a group of Taliban fighters.
Darth Avlectus
05-20-2010, 10:12 PM
Bad idea: You'll be shot dead in minutes.
Hitching a ride with Lloyd and Harry somewhere out in the middle of the northeast USA...while you have a stomach ulcer, 2 sets of pills (1 is meds, the other is poison), and generally bad intentions (you are the bad guy).
05-20-2010, 11:01 PM
Bad idea. Getting caught by the cops is preferable to hitching a ride with them.
Watching every video on YouTube with a "Don't try this at home" warning, and then trying all of them at home at once.
Darth Avlectus
05-20-2010, 11:13 PM
Good idea if you don't mind endangering yourself and making a mess.
Asking DasBoSchitt "What song is that?" on his idiot box productions in the YT comments after he *explicitly* posts links to that info in the description and gives a reminder or two in the video.
05-22-2010, 03:06 PM
Bad Idea. - *slowly raises righthand, points finger*.... HACK!
Jumping off a 5 story building, while using plus size underwear for a parachute or air brake.
05-23-2010, 10:53 AM
Bad idea, the underwear's leg holes prevent it from working too well as a parachute.
As part of a drunken bet, seeing how long you can keep your hands submerged in a deep fryer, or under a George Foreman Grill.
05-25-2010, 03:59 AM
Good idea, because while everyone is drunk, I would secretly unplug the heating elements from either item, when nobody was looking, stall for a little cool down, stick my hands in for the longest, and thus when the bet. MuHAHAHAHAHA!
Dressing up as a female sasquatch and using mating calls in order to catch one for world fame and recognition, for the rest of your lifetime.......:raise: or getting ass raped - whichever happens.
Darth Avlectus
05-26-2010, 09:10 PM
Bad idea either way.......BTW, I'm beginning to notice a pattern here with your posting; you might be careful or it might catch a little undesired attention...Unless you like that kind of thing.
Playing golf in the middle of skyscrapers in a city with a bunch of dead people in business suits laying around. (reference to a dinosaur rex music video)
05-27-2010, 09:10 PM
Good idea! No critics to deal with when you suck. You can also make signs that say 10.5 on a scale of 1 to 10, and tape them to each dead person's hand.
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Irritating a maneating tiger, when you didn't know his cage door was unlocked or faulty.
05-27-2010, 09:23 PM
Good idea, everyone wants a Darwin Award.
Boxing with wrist-mounted knives.
05-28-2010, 12:48 AM
Good idea. So long as the other guy doesn't expect them. (Personal experience? Why do you ask?)
Microwaving a politician.
Darth Avlectus
05-28-2010, 01:58 AM
Great Idea. Say, that smells kinda good and I'm hungry. Got any microwaved politicians?
Irking the Mayor of Metro City: Mike Haggar.
06-06-2010, 11:50 AM
Good Idea, hopefully anything you provoke him into doing will get him removed from office.
Microwaving a bottle of Rum.
Darth Avlectus
06-06-2010, 05:55 PM
Good idea provided you don't have to clean up that mess.
From a fair distance away through a window with a colimated 300mW laser, igniting a match inside a house saturated full of explosive fumes.
06-07-2010, 05:16 PM
Good idea. I haven't done that in a long ti.....ah, ah, :cop: I MEAN THAT'S BAD IDEA GTA, BAD - BAD - IDEA! :dev8:
Catching arrows shot straight at you, like the bad guy did in the "Scorpion King" movie.
06-08-2010, 12:04 AM
Bad idea, even if you manage it, doing that will scrape up your palms pretty badly.
As a teacher/professor, expecting your students to be willing to fail their other courses in order to pass yours.
Darth Avlectus
06-08-2010, 04:38 PM
Bad idea, you're just asking for a lawsuit and to get tossed out of a job. Not even counting the infuriated parents wanting to "take you to the shed" and the ire of the other teachers.
Using hacks on a ValvE engine game over a Steam network.
06-08-2010, 09:56 PM
Bad Idea, you'll end up taking a monitor to the head.
Experiments on Will It Blend? not always blending.
06-08-2010, 10:41 PM
Bad idea....if they're your experiment. Nothing like failing in front of a crowd.
Megaman hitting on Samus Aran AND Alyx Vance.
06-09-2010, 10:52 PM
Good idea, in the case of Samus. They have a lot in common. Bad idea, in the case of Alyx Vance. He could end up taking a crowbar to the head from Gordon Freeman.
Tricking a friend who's planning a vacation to Japan that "Hello" translates to "私はあなたを殺すつもりだ".
Darth Avlectus
06-10-2010, 03:51 PM
^^^Bad idea if you ever want to see that person alive and out of a jail cell again.
"私はあなたを殺すつもりだ" = "I'm going to kill you." (Google translate is ALSO your friend.)
Tazering yourself while you already have a pacemaker.
06-11-2010, 10:06 PM
Bad idea, you'll break more than just the pacemaker.
Inhaling Lithium dust.
06-11-2010, 10:38 PM
Bad idea, unless your a battery.
Serving pork at a Barmitzvah.
06-11-2010, 11:40 PM
Good idea, just be sure to put it beside the clam chowder.
Leaving a link to http://instantcrickets.com/ instead of a suggestion in this thread.
06-12-2010, 01:15 AM
:lol: Good Idea! Nothing can say it better then that.
Boasting about your writing skills in the Ahto forum, when your only 14.
06-12-2010, 01:41 AM
Great idea......if you like innumerable servings of humble pie, w/sides of snarky hostility. :p
Telling people you are a pathological liar and then warning them of immediate doom.
06-12-2010, 02:04 AM
Great Idea. You can't possibly be lying about that.
Telling people you are a truthful person and not warning them of immediate doom.
06-12-2010, 02:56 AM
Bad idea....provided they sought that info first. Otherwise, neutral. If they don't ask, you don't have to tell.
Shooting yourself w/a water cannon via remote control.
06-12-2010, 02:11 PM
Good idea, refreshing.
Electronic devices with outer casings made of wood.
Darth Avlectus
06-14-2010, 11:19 PM
Good idea as I actually have done that. Fairly easy to work with in fact, and believe it or not can actually be cost effective. May not always seem fitting but it is one idea, though most tend to prefer plastic due to a more high tech store bought look. Where you're building an alignment-critical project, not quite a good idea as wood can warp and so can plastic. (Yes I have had a fir bit of experience here!)
Getting something Yellow.
06-15-2010, 12:20 AM
Difficult to say, Yellow could mean a lot of things.
Will It Blend? - Tom Dickson's Hand, followed by Will It Blend? - Dynamite.
Darth Avlectus
06-15-2010, 08:34 PM
^^^Only good if it's a remote controlled blender and you're a safe distance away.
Difficult to say, Yellow could mean a lot of things.
Say it along with Niko:
Opening a thread in ahto on best fictional character couples (in your subjective opinion)...and perhaps orgies if you are a special person that happens to be really handy with a digital image editing program.
06-15-2010, 08:46 PM
Bad idea, that's practically like posting porn.
Microwaving pot.
06-15-2010, 09:25 PM
Bad idea. Would you rather get baked or nuked?
Growing pot in your neighbor's basement while they're in europe and then calling the police after they get back.
06-15-2010, 09:49 PM
Good idea, provided you harvest some of it first.
With permission from Ideo Productions, continuing Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This? after they've finished their final season.
Darth Avlectus
06-18-2010, 02:55 AM
Depends on a variety of factors that I'm not sure you'd really want me to get off into but largely it would depend on how creative you could get once you began running out of ideas.
Cheating on Samus with Peach.
06-18-2010, 03:10 AM
Bad idea, an irate Samus is a dangerous thing. If it were the other way, however, I think you'd be safe.
Cheating on Mario with Luigi.
06-18-2010, 05:50 AM
Bad idea, isn't Luigi a step down?
Cheating on Samus with Captain Falcon.
Darth Avlectus
06-18-2010, 08:41 PM
Bad idea: "My super ex girlfriend" would be an understatement. Personally I'd go for Temari at 18 instead. But to each their own. (And stay out of my furries pr0n!!!)
Going out into one of those fields that Cheech's cousin Red owns looking for a good time.
06-19-2010, 09:56 AM
Bad idea. You'd be too high to realise something's wrong, if something is wrong.
(I figured Captain Falcon could just Falcon Punch that little problem away)
Sticking Caesar salad in a blender.
Darth Avlectus
06-20-2010, 11:37 PM
If you like your caesar salad extra liquefied, good. Otherwise just messy...
Throwing up strawberry soda all over something white.
06-21-2010, 06:43 PM
Good idea, fake blood is always fun!
A reality show/game show in which contestants could potentially die when competing properly.
Darth Avlectus
06-21-2010, 10:07 PM
Excellent idea, genocidal idiot reduction is now loads of fun!!!
Making a hentai doujinshi of the megaman characters all 18+ (with others "modified" accordignly to meet that requirement) having orgies, and selling copies of it at a convention where Capcom is present.
06-21-2010, 10:19 PM
Good idea, they'll be your best customers.
Darth Avlectus
06-21-2010, 10:25 PM
Bad Idea: One does not accuse the dear network Admin of such thins if that one knows what's good for him/her...
Being the one to make Gravity Cat "not amused".
06-21-2010, 10:40 PM
Bad idea, gravity is important.
Replacing the Gravity Gun with the Gravy Gun.
06-21-2010, 11:25 PM
Good idea....if you're catering a cannibal party.
Replacing Dr. Hax monitor's w/iPods.
06-21-2010, 11:26 PM
Good idea, considerably less painful.
Microwaving blood.
06-21-2010, 11:31 PM
Only if your out of warm-blooded victims.
Believing Dr Who is for real.
06-21-2010, 11:33 PM
Bad idea, you'll end up chowing down on fishsticks dipped in custard (apparently not that bad) and getting puked on by whales.
Microwaving Gasoline.
06-21-2010, 11:35 PM
Good idea.......from afar.
Microwaving your nosey, annoying neighbor.
06-21-2010, 11:37 PM
Pointless, where are you going to get a microwave that big?
Building a spaceship, and using duct tape to keep it together.
06-22-2010, 06:09 PM
Bad idea. Your suppose to use chewing gum instead. :carms:
Driving your 18 wheeler, along with a 53 ft. box trailer, under a 10 foot (bridge) clearance at 80 miles an hour.
06-22-2010, 09:58 PM
Bad idea. Either your cargo will get destroyed, or the bridge will.
Breaking into your local McDonalds, and replacing every instance of the word "Double" on the menu and the computer system used in the kitchen with the word "Doobie"
Darth Avlectus
06-23-2010, 05:40 PM
Good idea...unless there's cops around.
Replacing Dr. Hax monitor's w/iPods.
Good idea, considerably less painful.
*comencing flying ninja star sharp ipod onslaught*
Deciding to help this year's High School grads with their pranks.
06-24-2010, 07:12 PM
Good idea. They need to be spectacular.
Using HAX against Dr. HAX.
Darth Avlectus
06-24-2010, 07:57 PM
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Hey i have a problem with the Pc version 1.08 of server manager. The problem is when i join my own game it lags like crazy , but when im not there its totally fine. Any help is appreciated. Ty
TripHammer 05-17-2008 08:17 PM
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There's a lot going on.. and if you're computer isn't built for it.. it can really task your computer in the form of lag.
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Scaling an still image - Final Cut Express
How can I move and scale a still image in FCE?
I've added a Photoshop image with alpha as a second track in FCE. My main video clip is in track 1.
I can see the semi-transparent overlay of the image but it's in the centre of the frame and too big. I just don't seem to be able to find a way to scale and move it.
I can select it. A light-blue wireframe surrounds it. I thought I may be able to use this to move and resize but it won't budge.
Any ideas, pointers to web pages etc gratefully received.
Sorry if this is a dumb question for the more experienced FCE users out there but I've searched here and Googled but I'm still coming up short.
mrplow 06-09-2008 07:58 AM
I've got an answer so with the thought someone else may find it useful. I had to switch to "Image + Wireframe" in the viewer, then I got grab handles at the edge of the selection that allowed scaling.
Time to RTFM I think!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/55358 | Oh, and before I forget. Do you know what triggered me to action? It was my older son entering the 7th grade. That's when it was the worst for me. I took one look at how innocent he was at that age and all I saw was what had been taken from me and I was enraged.
I haven't got any kids of my own so I'll never feel that rage, but I understand all the same.
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I was only 12 years old the night it happened. I had known my perp/abuser since the age of 8, and up till that point we didn't see eye to eye. I down right despised him. He was an abusive alcoholic that my mother would not kick out, but I wanted to, and I wasn't afraid of him. I remember spending the first few years being very nervous because I never knew what kind of mood he would be in, but because I was my mother's protector, I had to be ready for anything. For me, having to live like this was totally foreign. I came from a very laid back, morally sound family, so violence was unheard of in my psyche. As time went on, the abuser and I came to a mutual understanding, basically, agreeing to disagree. Since my father had not been around for a while, a need grew in me to have one around, so I gave him half a chance. I started going on fishing trips with him and my mom. He taught me how to drive (age 10-11). I just got used to him and his ways, though, I still stayed my mom's protector.
Needless to say, I relaxed myself with him, and thats when things changed. I noticed he started walking around nude when my mom wasn't home. It didn't really bother me because I was slightly curious about his manhood since walking in on him and my mom having sex, and wanted to know what it looked like. Things progressed from there and we started laughing, joking and playing around (like a father and son age 11-12). One day as we laughed and played around he grabbed my wrist and pulled it back to his crotch, and sort of held it there for me to feel his manhood. The action, at the time, puzzled me, but I let it go. Our relationship continued to grow until we were able to talk on a regular basis.
The day it happened was a strange day. We'd been home alone the entire day and I noticed he walked around nude that whole day, which did make me uneasy because he would look at me in odd ways. As night came and everyone started to bed, he came to me and asked me to meet him in the living room that night so we could talk. He said he wanted to talk to me about becoming a man. Being that I was 12, I was up for it. I ended up falling asleep, but he woke me up. I remember him standing over my bed, in his almost see through pajamas, beckoning me to come to the living room. As I sat up, I couldn't help but notice he was bulging down the side of his pj's. I kind of shook the thought and went to our location. I sat in a chair beside our sofa, where he sat. He stood up and the bulge showed itself again, this time, making me a bit uncomfortable. He asked me to sit on the sofa with him, and for some strange reason, I did. He started talking to me about sex, and asked me if I'd ever touched myself, which I had by that time (12 years old). I said no, and he said he would show me how. He pulled himself out of his pj's and began playing with himself. He stopped and asked me to do it for him. I said no, and that I liked girls, but he said that he was trying to teach me something and it was ok. I resisted for a minute, he kept pulling my hand, and I gave in. He pulled me closer, pulled my shirt up, and reached his hands down my pjs. I stopped and told him I like girls, and he says I know you do but its okay because I am teaching you something. After he came, he pushed me back and gave me oral sex. I will admit, it felt very good, but I knew something wasn't right. When it was over, he sat beside me, kissing and fondling me until I was hard again. I got up and went to my room.
I woke up for school the next morning, feeling weird about what had happened to me. Once I got to school, I started feeling dirty. I wanted to scream at my desk. I started looking around, wondering if anyone knew my secret. That day, I sat in silent torture. Once I got home, I went straight to my room and closed the door. Soon as my mom and brother left, he came to my room, and thats how I spent my evenings, almost everyday, from the age of 12 to 16.
I write to you with a numb feeling right now. Most of the time, I can't believe it happened, but other times I flashback to the moment, reliving every aspect. My story is actually much longer than this, but it has been shortened because of the amount of information I remember can be a bit overwhelming. In those years of my abuse, he told me he was in love with me, and about the other women he'd been sleeping with along with a host of other disturbing things. I started to fear him sleeping with my mother, to protect her, I purposefully made myself available to him. (this is where I stop....it gets too painful)
I live with so much now. How I function, I don't know? Sometimes I get so confused in my mind. I look at women and want them, and see men and have thoughts about them. The thoughts about men make me sick sometimes.....like a dirty thought. I have been with a few women, and loved it. I know I am heterosexual, but I don't feel like it sometimes. my story has many chapters that come and go. Some days its like it never happened, then others are a direct reminder. I get mad at myself a lot because I see my abuser on the street, and feel sorry for him. Hope my story helps someone.
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If you have bullous pemphigoid, you can help take care of your condition with the following self-care strategies:
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1. A tormented dramatization of the exact same events, and it's as bad as the earlier film ("Dogtown and Z-Boys") was good.
2. Neither chimps nor children should be subjected to such shabby mediocrity.
3. The characters are boring, the violence generic, the suspense nonexistent.
4. On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
5. Crowe was going for something magical in all this, but the film is so affected and mannered, so preciously in love with itself, that it's painful to watch. Scenes go on and on, and when you think the movie's over, it goes on and on some more.
6. There's a fascinating and terrifying story to be told about Elizabeth Bathory, the dramatically depraved 17th century sadist known as the Blood Countess.....This ain't it.
7. Both a madcap comedy and a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse. But it's not funny or smart enough to work as either one, let alone to strike a balance.
8. A Christmas headache looking for an audience.
9. Kline will break your heart, while the rest of the movie will just make you sick.
10. Shows that there's a limit to how much mileage one can get from offbeat, creepy and symbiotic.
11. Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.
12. Normally, I'd recommend a movie like this only to diehard fans. But even they may want to wait until it hits cable.
13. Turns out to be as heavy and earthbound as an injured dragon.
14. A ticket to this movie is a season's pass on that train - and you must complete every ride.
15. This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
16. A weak documentary. There's very little here to demonstrate the personality and leadership qualities that made Massoud both a legend and a martyr. Raw, sloppily edited, unfocused and without any sense of scale, it's personal journalism with its heart in the right place, and that's about it.
17. There are some nicely gory touches for genre connoisseurs...But JC2 lacks the all-important character development we got in the first installment.
18. Unremittingly bleak and hopelessly outdated parable of American race relations.
19. Convoluted and unsatisfying psychological drama.
21. Ever been on a blind date that you knew would be dismal from the start? Well, this is the movie version of that date, stretched out over the slowest two hours imaginable.
22. There's a lot of scary stuff in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. There are eyeball-sucking leeches, decapitations, punctured necks... and appalling acting.
23. Unfortunately, it isn't until the final scene -- a spoof of the horror genre's false-ending cliché -- that Bats really takes wing.
24. A superficial tween comedy that mocks celebutantes like the Olsen twins while simultaneously pushing stars Hilary and Haylie Duff as their replacements.
25. Perhaps this is just a bad performance by Bana; he's not shown me anything yet. But there's a more basic problem. If money is just a way of keeping score, and Huck doesn't care whether he's flush or busted, why should we?
26. Dark, grim, and cliched Orwellian satire.
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27. The question is, if Sarabeth is so desperate to escape this oppressive distillation of Jewish neuroses, why would filmmaker Debra Kirschner think we'd want to stick around?
28. The plot is as riddled with holes as Matilda's victims, making her sudden appearances more distracting than distressing.
29. An exhausting combination of generic thriller, political tract and sentimental weepie.
30. Save your breath, and your money.
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5th Amendment Shredded
You Have The Right To Remain Silent
or...maybe not...
posted by nofundy on Nov 25, 2002 - 93 comments
The Associated Press
posted by pejamo on Sep 6, 2002 - 54 comments
Jose Padilla is an US citizen
posted by elwoodwiles on Aug 19, 2002 - 8 comments
posted by mediareport on Jul 3, 2002 - 13 comments
Precrime: Now that the movie is out, and given the similarity of the movie's pretext to our current situation, the phrase Minority Report is rapidly becoming a cliché. But those vividly aware of the implications of current policy seem hesitant to condemn it — Spielberg himself is "on the president's side in this instance" and Dahlia Lithwick concludes her article with the declaration that "We need a Bureau of Precrime." Are the merits of precrime more weighty than the drawbacks? Is "innocent until proven guilty" becoming an outdated concept?
posted by grrarrgh00 on Jun 21, 2002 - 41 comments
Bye Bye, Privacy.
posted by tpoh.org on May 31, 2002 - 17 comments
Fear Can Turn Us All Into 'Good Germans.'
posted by Jimbob on Apr 29, 2002 - 32 comments
Arthur Miller, playwright, fears for American Civil Liberties
Arthur Miller, playwright, fears for American Civil Liberties Here is a distinguised writing Lefty who sure does not give up and hits away at what he perceives as enemies as he did so many years ago. Usually, with age, lefties grow up and move Rightward.
posted by Postroad on Dec 25, 2001 - 32 comments
Commencement speech about civil liberties
posted by taumeson on Dec 17, 2001 - 38 comments
Routes of Least Surveillance
Routes of Least Surveillance
posted by Irontom on Nov 28, 2001 - 24 comments
blair postpones freedom of information act
posted by quarsan on Nov 16, 2001 - 5 comments
U.S. Will Monitor Calls to Lawyers
U.S. Will Monitor Calls to Lawyers According to this article in today's Washington Post, the United States' Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided to "listen in" on telephone conversations between lawyers and their clients in federal custody—including people who have been detained but not charged with any crime "whenever that is deemed necessary to prevent violence or terrorism." Sounds to me like an infringement of the right to counsel and attorney-client privilege. In a related article, the DOJ has also decided to stop releasing a count of the thousands of people it is detaining—without charging them with a crime—just as civil libertarians and the media are starting to question the secret and possibly unconstitutional detentions.
posted by terrapin on Nov 9, 2001 - 10 comments
Virgin Mobile Phone Records Which Map Users Whereabouts Kept Indefinitely.
posted by boneybaloney on Oct 30, 2001 - 15 comments
Larry my man, you tell 'em!
posted by HoldenCaulfield on Oct 17, 2001 - 7 comments
Canada gets it own Star Chamber.
posted by tranquileye on Oct 16, 2001 - 8 comments
"First they came..."
"First they came..."
Just a friendly reminder for all those folks who think it is somehow acceptable to allow the US government to infringe upon our civil liberties in the name of...[fill in the blank].
posted by mapalm on Oct 1, 2001 - 17 comments
Justice O'Connor foresees cutbacks in personal liberties.
Justice O'Connor foresees cutbacks in personal liberties. Sandra Day O'Connor, during remarks given at the groundbreaking ceremonies for a Law School Building at NYU, cautions Americans that we may face restrictions in our personal freedoms. No real specifics in the remarks, but intriguing in that she would be among those having the final say as to the constitutionality of any laws that arise out of the "War on Terrorism". She poses some interesting questions in her remarks. And she is considered to be one of the moderate Justices.
posted by MAYORBOB on Sep 30, 2001 - 13 comments
The register
posted by skallas on Sep 24, 2001 - 42 comments
And so it begins
posted by jed on Sep 12, 2001 - 11 comments
Finally, some good news on the privacy front
posted by 4midori on Jun 11, 2001 - 11 comments
No Hiding Place
posted by hmgovt on Apr 20, 2001 - 4 comments
I Am Not A DNA Sequence, I Am A Free Man!
I Am Not A DNA Sequence, I Am A Free Man! Yet more proof that NewLabour, and in particular Jack Straw, regards the further erosion of civil rights as a vote-winner. Volunteer to give a DNA sample in order to eliminate yourself from inquiries, and it'll be kept on the record just in case you're naughty in the future.
posted by holgate on Jan 19, 2001 - 8 comments
Y2K Spoof Flick Goes Awry
posted by greyscale on Nov 25, 1999 - 0 comments
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The album that killed heavy metal - 0%
UltraBoris, March 21st, 2004
It takes some DAMN GOOD reasoning to give this album such a low rating. The zero implies the absolute nadir of musicality, a level that can only be dreamt of by mere mortals as Fred Durst and your blender. What in Satan's name could this album have done to deserve such a low rating?? It pretty much singlehandedly ENDED heavy metal, that's what. Now, on a strictly musical level, I would give this album a 62 or so. It's not bad. It really isn't. It's certainly not as bad as Saint Anger, proud owner of a former record-low "3%" rating. It's not even as bad as the album that would follow it, And Justice for All, and when all is said and done, it pretty much sums up the averageness of the thrash movement perfectly.
First off, it is where shit really starts to fall apart for Metallica as a band. At this point, you can see the impending death - not just bodily, but creative as well. They are out of Mustaine riffs, and Hetfield isn't exactly the smartest, cleverest cookie in the box, and he's forced to scramble and improvise, so out comes one bashing thrasher, a few more assorted riffs here and there, and then all kinds of half-assed and half-baked ideas that pretty much do not belong in Heavy Metal, the land of the free, the home of the brave... unfortunately, the world caught on to THIS album, this expression of vapidity, and decided that THIS was the way to go.
This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal. It brought heavy metal to its knees, and castrated it mightily. It is, then, by definition, the most damaging, counterproductive, and overrated LP ever to be released. Even standing it up on its own, and not letting it poison the minds of those that came after it, I wouldn't even put it in the top 10 most influential thrash releases of 1986... it's easily killed by the unholy trinity of Darkness Descends, Reign in Blood, and Pleasure to Kill, which pushed the envelope of metal in three different, related directions. It's not anywhere nearly as enjoyable as expatriate Mustaine's Peace Sells, which was technically brilliant and a whole barrel of fun too, or as dark as Possessed's sophomore effort, or Sepultura and Sodom's full-length debuts. It's not nearly as punk-as-fun as Nuclear Assault's first. Then I could throw in fifteen, if not fifty, other backwash thrash LPs that did nothing for the genre as far as influence goes, but are still a whole fuckload more enjoyable than this one.
So... the songs. There is some ownage here. Battery, for example, is fucking heavy, and works brilliantly well, as a destroyer of worlds. The title track is a bit more calculated, with its main riff gronked from one of the Metal Church demos (also "Over My Dead Body"), and but it dies for a bit in that little Hetfield noodle section in the middle. Say what you will, that part is dumb, and a harbringer of what is to come. Not just because it is dumb, but because it is hailed as visionary - not just on the album, but with this band, and with metal in general. This album didn't do ANYTHING make metal a better, more viable genre... hell, by 1986, everything that was good about metal was pretty much established, it was just a matter of time before all the stupid ideas reared their ugly fucking heads and turned the scene into self-parody. From the inane mindless riff-ennui of Jon Schaffer and Iced Earth, to the stupid dynamic mismanagement of a million bands, ranging from misplaced melodicism of the Gothenburg scene to the awful monotony of Opeth... all of these can be traced back to the vast commercial success of this album. Being "less than thrash" was viewed as a Good Thing. Less than over-the-top, less than expanding the genre, less than creative, less than heavy fucking metal. And of course, as is the human tendency to accept mediocrity, because excellence requires actual EFFORT... people jumped right on this very fucking album. They saw that they did not have to put out an all-out Bonded by Blood thrashfucking mindfuck, or even the complex harmonic beauty of stuff like Peace Sells, with its shredding solos and powerful interludes. If they just put in a obligatory Slow Solo Section, a la Suck Hetfield, they would be accepted as correct by their metal brethren. Rah, rah, put up the horns, thank you for being bland. A thousand Nevermores were spawned by THIS album.
Third song... this probably is the parodic equivalent of Black Sabbath here. Because Black Sabbath were midpaced, creative, and heavy. This is midpaced, boring, and plodding. There is nothing to this song, and of course, it would be viewed as a fucking staple of the "groove-thrash" movement. Robbb Flynnn, he whose contributions to excess are merely putting extra letters on the end of his first name, probably ejaculated twice as hard when he heard this song - and realised he could play shitty and get away with it - than in ANY other time of his life, and that includes his entire career in Vio-lence. This very well may be the song that spawned Machine Head, and of course when Hetfield, through the wall-of-saliva incident, corrupted Diamond Darrell into being a groove monkey, spawned modern Pantera too.
Next up, a cheesy ballad, Sanitarium, which again contains soft sections for the sake of having soft sections. Of course, proper use of dynamics had been completely, TOTALLY invented by about 1976... if Sabotage didn't have it, then Sad Wings certainly did, and anyone claiming to add something new to the idea was pretty much full of hot air. Maybe Rainbow's "Stargazer" can lay a small claim to things, a small claim to have added SOMETHING. And Sanitarum adds nothing. That said, it does not even play the standard cards correctly - there are tons of songs that start off soft and then build up to a frenzied crescendo, and most of them are far more effective than this. See Helstar's "Winds of War" for a perfect example, or even the previous LP's "Fade to Black" for one that works decently well. But of course, there is "Megalomania". And then there is this crap. And that's what this is - unmitigated crap, masquerading as thrash, but being plodding, boring, modern bullshit. This song has absolutely no balls whatsoever. And heavy metal is about BALLS. It's about riffs, it's about smashing a spike through the brains of the listener, making him/her/it perk up and die hard. It's about the slow, twisting zombie passages of Triumph of Death. It's about the flash and the colour and the violence of Chainsaw Charlie. It's about the constant multidirectional bludgeon of From the Past Comes the Storms. It's CERTAINLY NOT about Hetfield moaning "leave me be..." like a thousand other assrape victims to come. But, unfortunately, this is what the world caught onto. This is the illusion that destroyed reality, the feeble cry of patheticness in the night, that virally castrated a powerful genre. Because as Possessed and D.F.A. and up-and-coming bands like Death and Nocturnus were constantly playing loud, proud, and heavy and expanding the genre... and as a thousand other bands like Iron Maiden and Helloween were consistently waving the banner of Judas Fucking Priest... as all of those bands demonstrated vibrancy and life, here was THIS virus, this awful plague of self-mocking stupidity, that slowly corrupted the whole thing from within. And people wonder what happened to metal? People wonder why years like 1993 came along, and why horrendous, backwards bands like Lamb of God and Damage Plan are now on the forefront of the scene? People WONDER - no, it was inevitable, that the mediocrity would rise and destroy everything in its path. All it took was for the metal scene to be inundated with this backwash crap, this horrendous assault that seems so soothing, so relaxing... so "it's OKAY if you suck, junior", so Kurt Cobain before Kurt Cobain himself. Look, this band sucks too, and look at the instant popularity they have. Gresham's Law is a harsh mistress.
So yes, maybe I was mistaken. Maybe this is the album that should be lauded as the avant-garde of the metal scene of 1986. Forget Dark Angel's 286 beats per minute of ultimate heaviness, throw away Reign in Blood's chaotic assault on the senses, and certainly avoid thinking about Pleasure to Kill's death-metal tendencies. Oh no no, none of THOSE albums did jack shit for the metal genre, because the metal genre is OF COURSE about technological backwardsism, insipidity, and playing turned to "4", because only losers like Motorhead play, eat, drink, fuck, sleep, etc... on "11". Save the aggression for the Jager sessions, right Hetfield? The actual music needs to be a complete fucking lullaby. Horror of horrors - though mathematically inevitable of course - the metal genre ate this bullshit up. Again, look at the top bands in pop metal today... the uninspired Iced Earth, who have not had a good idea since 1994, of course proudly declare that early Metallica is their foremost influence. The godawful Machine Head, as mentioned before - groove-monkeys to the core. The lame Testament, who were, other than their lead guitarist, a few screw turns loose in the creativity department - their The New Order (a "thrash classic", my ass) is pretty much a fourth-rate Master of Puppets ripoff, and their latest stuff takes ideas that were more heavily present on this LP, and less so on others.
Fifth up is Disposable Heroes, eight minutes of thrash, showing that, if pressed, the band could still deliver the goods. This, along with Battery, is the highlight of the album. It's competent thrash a la 1984 or 1985, except maybe a bit overlong. That said, if you think this has crushing riffage, you have not heard Exodus's Piranha. Again, if the album were all like this, then it would be an average thrasher, not unlike a thousand others that came out in this year. See Death Angel's "The Ultraviolence" for a quick example. Following Disposable Heroes is the clearly Mustaine-written - at least, in the interesting parts, anyway - Leper Messiah. That middle break is so completely Killing/Peace Sells that the fact that Hetfield could even barely begin to claim that he and Ulrich wrote the song is promptly ludicrous, and more so a flat out fucking lie. I can see Hetfield writing the plodding, Should Not Be-esque beginning and end of the song, but that middle section has the Mark of Dave. I have no idea how this band managed to assign songwriting credits, but the idea of Ulrich coming up with songs is laughable. It is this little fucking troll that can personally be shown to be the anti-metal figure. No, not just because of Napster. Not because of the black album, and Bob Rock, and a thousand other crimes against humanity in the 1990s. He had a hand on THIS album too. Hetfield, by himself, would probably been happy penning silly odes to bludgeonry, a thousand Batteries, each with a slightly lower voltage than the last, and the band would have died its appropriate death by mediocrity. Kublai Khan, anyone? No one's heard of Kublai Khan, and no one should have ever heard of Metallica after 1984 or so. They just got incredibly lucky that Ulrich got kicked out of Metal Church in 1980, and had nothing to do with the east coast scene, where Overkill was busy declaring that they just didn't give a fuck. They just wanted to play live, and repeatedly they compromised their good business sense to continue doing so. Quite a sad thing, that Overkill shot themselves in the face with their selling of their demo to Azra Records for booze money, but when all is said and done, THAT attitude is BY FAR more The Metal Way than anything Metallica could have done. Overkill didn't give a fuck, and just played cranked to 11, finishing their set with Tyrant, and recognising Joey Ramone and Lemmy Kilmister as the twin gods of excess and everything that is right and "fuck yeah!" about the world. Then, there was Megadeth, with Mustaine, who instantly, at the very moment the band was founded, or maybe even before then... when Mustaine was sent back to San Francisco on that four-day bus trip, THAT is when Megadeth became a better band than Metallica would ever be, because Mustaine was right pissed off, and he would outdo, outgun, and outriff the band that had jilted him, because that is the metal way, to be over-the-top and full of dashing creative energy.
Metallica had none of this. Maybe, at the beginning, they had whatever they could steal from their Venom and Diamond Head LPs. Unfortunately, Hetfield probably had his heart in the right place, but he was a complete fucking pussy. He felt the need to declare between songs in 1985 that he would not be saying the words "ooh baby" and wearing lipstick. Paul Baloff took the battle to the other side, issuing an ultimatum to anyone in the crowd wearing a RATT shirt. Bobby Blitz just didn't even mention it, letting the songs do the talking. He was "leaving the poseurs behind". Hetfield just stood on the stage and sulked, because Ulrich was busy cutting his heart out. Ulrich, who had not a whit of songwriting sense to him... he was kicked out of Metal Church in '80 because his drumming was nonexistent at best. He of course had the spark of marketing, where he landed himself a deal on a compilation without a band, or anything other than flyers of Saxon at the Whiskey. And he knew, that the way to make it to the top was not the way of Possessed, because Possessed were too heavy and too rough to be anything but a cult band. He knew that the way to the top was to scheme and to cover one's self in a heavy dose of bullshit. Then, he got lucky, because he had a pal named Hetfield, that really wanted to kill all the record label executives, and combine Hetfield's true extravagance with Ulrich's poseurism, and what you got was a band that appeared to be rebellious. Throw in Cliff Burton's hippie tendencies, and Kirk Hammett's irrelevance, and the image was complete. And at the beginning, the band did have the metal madness, when they wrote silly odes to Weapon like Hit the Lights - empty of social relevance, but completely heavy FUCKING metal. Thanks, Hetfield and Tanner. It's not hard to be a metal kid, and at the beginning, Hetfield was a metal kid. Then Ulrich slowly but surely turned him into a puppet. The album title can be viewed as a proud declaration of Ulrich's conquest of Hetfield, of Metallica, and eventually of the entire scene. The little troll infused mediocrity, and slowly burned the world from the inside out. Hetfield became a raging alcoholic, hanging on to whatever riffs he could remember stealing from Mustaine. Burton's hippie-rock, which was fine for what it is, but had no place in metal whatsoever, soon became the overriding creative force in the band, and of course had to be recognised, because Ulrich knew that if he approved another Hell Awaits, the scene would bury him fast. And of course, it would be ludicrous to imply that he was one-ten-thousandth the drummer the Lombardo was.
So along came Master of Puppets. Random hippie crap, combined with a few random recycled Mustaine moments, all held together by the glue of Hetfield's average riff constructions - perfectly suitable for an average, mediocre, fifth-rate garage thrash ensemble. And Ulrich's megalomania, that realised that this steaming pile of directionless garbage was THE universal solution to bringing him fame. Not that it was any good - precisely because it WASN'T. Because it was mediocre, any idiot with an axe could be like Hetfield now, and if Ride the Lightning sold a whole fuckload of copies, then Master of Puppets, on inertia alone, would sell a whole fuckload more, and thus the seed was set. And that, my friends, is why Lars Ulrich is the worst thing ever to happen to heavy fucking metal.
After the obligatory Mustaine composition comes the long section of hippie crap, that is not only the worst song on the album, but THE final stake through the heart of heavy metal. I hear Orion, and I hear Opeth. I hear a heap of shit that is labelled "progressive" and "visionary", but is really a space-filler. A throwback to the 1960s and the 1970s - stuff that Black Sabbath quickly moved away from, and used only in small amounts. Progressive rock was dangerous stuff, to be used in form only, not in actual substance. Careful with it, and get brilliant stuff like The Writ. Too much results in Fluff. And Iommi was smart to recognise this, but Cliff Burton was not. And he continued to write songs full of this dreck. Ask Hetfield to throw on a few random metal riffs, and what you get is something claimed as "amazing" by all the losers that would also claim In Flames as a masterwork of a band. Of course, this anthem to loserhood has no heart whatsoever, no spirit, no emotional content. Nothing. Thunderhead, this is not. Stargazer? Fuck no. Certainly not anything out of the Diamond Head catalogue. Not Am I Evil, To the Devil His Due, or even Ishmael. Diamond Head got it right, and despite the endless stream of pointers from Lars to their general direction, Metallica did not. But of course, it is easier to derive inspiration from the half-baked. Easy to look at what did not get it right, and claim that to be the best thing ever, simply so that when you make something similar, you can pat yourself on the back and be proud. Thus, Dark Tranquillity, be proud. You sound like complete shit, and have the intensity of zero point zero Iommis, and you are hailed as an excellent modern band. Because you took the Orion approach to things. So, Dark Tranquillity, make sure to send Lars a Christmas card once a year, because you owe your entire career to him. So many bands nowadays do. So many bands would never have gotten off the ground, if "getting off the ground" were not so kindly redefined as "flopping right over and accomplishing nothing" a la Orion.
Then, the last song. Damage Incorporated is the last of Hetfield's contributions to the album... fast and completely insipid. This is not, in any way, shape, or form, to be mistaken for The Burning of Sodom. This is James Hetfield's dying cry as Lars Ulrich finishes him off. In fact, if you look carefully, you can see the exact frame where his heart rips in two. Desperation breeds stupidity, and here is the final desperate act of a man driven to Jagermeister, not because of the grueling tribulations of the road, or of having one's equipment stolen, or because he had to send an ex-guitarist back to the west coast in a box on wheels. It's the final death of a man that thinks he is on top of the world, being the frontman of the most famous heavy metal band in existence... but slowly, subconsciously, realising he is not at all in control, and knowing that he's going to have to put on a smiling bullshit face for however many years, because he certainly can't QUIT the band, but the only way to stay in is to submit to Lars Ulrich, despite all of their public assurances that they are partners in crime. Hetfield is weak, and resorts to over-the-top boasting. Most thrash bands would, of course, do something like this, but somehow none of the Overkill catalogue comes off nearly this pathetic, this fake, this... incorporated. Overkill are rotten to the core in the best sense of the word... Metallica in the worst, most corporate. And at the head of this machine is the midget himself, Lars Ulrich. He holds the world in his hands... his band, his "music", his scene.
Best not to listen, kids. If you have any decency, any individuality, any self-respect. THIS is why I gave the album a zero, because it is the album that will slowly draw you in and destroy you too. Let this be your warning.
"Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings..." |
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OP 9/25/12 9:03:56 AM#1
Post your results, you can read it in your game statistics ingame.
My character:
Embermage lvl 89
48h played
643x died
Sometimes i joined and died, like about 15x like that. Mostly on bosses.
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Joined: 8/31/06
Posts: 1380
9/26/12 1:15:05 PM#2
Im playing on Elite Hardcore, so I cant die "alot" lol. But I lost 3 characters already.
The very first engineer died to Chillhoof. One shoted by frost wave.
The second made it to 32. Entered foolishly phase portal and found himself with Tars and no exit. After 30 minutes fight the room was crawling with evil creatures. At least 100 of them in very narrow space. Agony. Death.
The third one died yesterday at level 45. Massive tank with 4900 health, alot of armor and absorbs. He was one shoted by 34 level boss. I was shocked.
Leveling the new one atm
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Joined: 6/22/06
Posts: 746
9/26/12 3:20:07 PM#3
Berserker Veteran
98 strength
176 Dexterity
5 focus
95 vitality
24 hours amd 11 min played time
lvl 49
Died 58 times
Endgame death stats
Died 74 times
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9/29/12 3:15:35 AM#4
berserker lvl 12 .died three times :P
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Joined: 1/20/08
Posts: 33
Quitters don't say, "I quit!" They just quit. SRSLY.
10/03/12 1:01:25 AM#5
Number of times died on my first character: 111
It's about to increase since I'm going to try entering this level 105 map I got from Mapworks as a level 55 Engineer...
kbravo Xfire Miniprofile
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The Critical Hit Pretzel!
10/03/12 1:03:52 AM#6
Well to lazy to check exact time but I got a level 54 berserker on Hardcore Elite... so obviously 0 deaths. On NG+ and honeslty not playing to much. Considering how close I got before, I'm expecting to get instant gimped soon. If it wasn't for being more durable then a Embermage/Outlander, I'd of been instant gimped a few times. |
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