Nanoswarm!
pissed off, highly capable nanobot swarm.
This is terrifying. Right down in the "evac NOW and nuke the ship behind you, then do it again a few times THEN start scanning and getting paranoid, because son, you got PROBLEMS" layer of my soul..

www.schlockmercenary.com
Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

here's one for ya.
I just added a disk to my machine, set it as primary boot device installed windows and drivers and etc.
So I'm up, running, and drivered. My old RAID array is drive E, and city of heroes is on it in e:program filescity of heroes
On the old windows install, that was the C drive.
So I run the COHupdater.exe, and it asks me if it's OK to install in C:program filescity of heroes.
That would be a 'no'. I tell it to install in e:program filescity of heroes, where there's already an installation.
It concurs, sees a mess of Piggs, and checksums them.
All is well, but wait.. what's a File Manifest, why am I downloading it, and why won't it download?
*scratches head*Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

US demands air passengers ask its permission to fly
This is the sort of rule that people in the Soviet Union had to live under... and the current US administration wants to make it the law of the land. No, thanks; I'll stay in Canada, where we're still free to travel and assemble as we wish.
I have to conclude that the terrorists won. This kind of proposal is proof of that.

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

My memory sucks, so I'm passing the annoyance on to you. '.'
I seem to remember watching an anime (I think) recently where one character told another "You will definitely be all right". And later she'd tell herself "I'll definitely be all right." And the whole thing started seeming kind of weird.
But I can't remember what series it was. >< So, does anyone recognize this? '.'
-Morgan.
"Her love is pure. Her intentions are not."

I'm in a slightly goofy mood (which often happens when I'm short on sleep)...

It's been established that many Fen took different names when they headed Up, if only to dodge the 'Daneside law. Some folks are going to pick ...
let's be charitable and say "less than serious" names. Sure, they'll regret it later, but by then they're stuck with whatever names they
chose.

I mentioned one of these people in the writeup of Stellvia Corp. - Oliver Towne manages the
##WHITENOISE## Foundation. ("Oliver Towne?" "Yeah; I'm everywhere!" Which means he might be one of the Julian Friez... but probably
not.)

Julian Friez fits the theme, too, although that was his real name. (Going off on a tangent, by 2014, Stellvia
is probably big enough to hire a Julian or two, but they wouldn't report directly to chief engineer Kohran. They have issues with
female androids, you know...)

Then there's the previously-unmentioned British female Warsie, Judi Knight.

Are there any others? Well, yes, there must be... but can anyone come up with their names?



-Rob Kelk




"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

the world needs more people like this guy.
Takes a novel look at something that seen as a detrimental side effect to be suppressed (wind flutter) and turns it into a power source.
Windbelt-Terry
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die." - Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner - 1996)
Mary Sue's theme music
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

That's all you need to know for this link. It's funny. Trust me.
FRom Skippy's List blog
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

My copy of Talisman 4th Edition showed up.
Woo and hoo!--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel
"Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right, Boo?"

Has Doug ever considered finding and playing the "local" version of this song to get a general "briefing" on the world he just gated into?
I could see him hearing the song on the radio, and and dropping the tune plugs and having a WTF!! moment as he gets a local history download from "his" point of view.
And then finding out that every world he's visited has a version of "We didn't start the fire".

Green Jelly's Three Little Pigs.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.