Something I knocked together earlier today...
I am not a marketing person. I think it shows.



Selling fast motorcycles is a lot like selling lingerie - it pays to be just a little bit illicit.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/02/showbiz/r ... ?hpt=hp_t5]J.K. Rowling admits Harry and Hermione should have ended up with each other.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014 ... y-program/

Ironically enough, it is the republican states that use it the most, with some heavy hit spots in democratic states.
But I think that this map might be skewed, I think they are using the percentage of that district.
Districts in places like new york city are going to have many times more people, and thus many more people using these programs.
Just compare it to what was posted in WTF pics for the day in general chatter:

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"I shall give these in units of Canadas"

Nancy Pelosi's recent interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show has a real gem of a politician opening mouth and engaging in verbal gymnastics avoiding facts. The video has quite a few gems of her avoiding dealing with the failings of Obama care  but the real gem is at the end when she make s the whopper of a claim that only the executive branch has a revolving door issue not congress...

http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgi ... com:432681The Daily Show

It's well worth reading the takedown from the Sunlight Foundation.

Quote:Yes Rep. Pelosi, Congress has a revolving door"The revolving door is not so much Congress as the executive branch."

That statement comes from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during her Thursday night appearance on the Daily Show
with Jon Stewart. The declaration may seem counterintuitive, given that
Pelosi's office is one of the largest incubators of revolving door
talent on Capitol Hill. According to data from Open Secrets at least 28 current and former Pelosi staffers have represented (or currently represent) special interests.

During her appearance, Stewart pressed the congresswoman on the
obstacles facing small IT contractors who wanted to compete for bids
working on the Affordable Care Act's website. Stewart questioned whether
an overly burdensome procurement process was allowed to continue
because it favored big government contractors with the resources to
successfully navigate the regulations.

When Stewart broached the issue that corporations may have too much
influence on members of Congress, Pelosi was apparently unaware that one
of her former staffers now works for Boeing. "I don't know that,
well... who?"

So, here it is.
The idea started out as a solo-run version of the Brother's Grimm Collaborative Project my brothers and I were working on, because given our schedules and our being on different parts of the country it become difficult to collaborate.
And this snowballed pretty quickly.
Quick-and-dirty: this is an SI, slightly ahead from current events and supposing a terrible tragedy in the family.  RL me is highly susceptible to depression, so what better way to make his entire life go BSOD prior to somebody saving the files and booting them up in another machine?

Tried using the forum's Advanced Search function to find a reference to this song, but came up empty:www.youtube.com/watch?v=mItuZ8i4wH8
"Invincible"When they finally come to destroy the earth They'll have to go through you first I bet they won't be expecting that
When they finally come to destroy the earth They'll have to deal with you first and now My money says they won't know about The thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes
Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white hot thing It's invincible
When they finally come, what'll you do to them?Gonna decimate them like you did to me? Will you leave them stunned and stuttering?
When they finally come, how will you handle them? Will you devastate them deliberately? 'Cause I'm gonna guess they won't be prepared for Thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes
Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible
That crushing, crashing, atom smashing, white hot thing It's invincible
So, please use your powers for good, please use your powers for good.
Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible Invincible, (Invincible, oh oh oh) you're invincible
xxxxxxx
Power: High grade superhuman durability and laser vision with an overconfidence drawback.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

Okay, a little bit ago I got into it with some guys over on SB's Creative Writing IRC Channel about skills picked up as a veritech pilot in Macros/Robotech.
The thing is that I felt that small squad tactics and asymmetrical warfare would be standard fare for the command-track veritech pilots.
My argument: The UN realized as soon as they began investigating the ship that was eventually dubbed 'Macros' that the original owners were somewhere in the vicinity of 50 feet tall, give or take.  Therefore, to combat them, they built veritech fighters specifically for that purpose.  This means geeting down into the trenches and duking it out, hand-to-hand if needs be (which we actually do see in post-rain-of-death Macros/Robotech).
Also, there is the fact that Khyron led very effective guerrilla-style raids on RDF interests that could only be fought off with a combination of veritechs (usually in battloid form once they arrived on scene), allied Zentreadi, and a not-small-amount of trickery.
The SpaceBattlers, on the other hand, insist that they are jet fighters, full stop, and the whole transforming robot thing is just there for the cool factor.  (Agreed on the cool factor, but irrelevant for deconstruction purposes.)  (EDIT: Oh yeah, and they also said that veritechs are not very nimble at all in Battloid.  Really?)
Do the SpaceBattlers have the right of this?  I could really use the input.

I've been watching Kill la Kill lately... yeah, I know.  It's totally batshit, but in a good way.  What do you expect of the people that made Gurren Lagan?  ANYHOW...
Finally getting to see that utterly insane and cutesy little psychopath named Nui Harime at work (this chick could give Quatro a run for her money in the psychological torture and manipulation department). I felt inspired to write up a tiny little tidbit...  Now, I'm not entirely sure what to do with this, but I am pretty sure that I got myself a gem here.  Just wanted to know what you guys think of it.
NOTE: read this with the placid calm of Laurence Fishburn's Morpheus, but with the cold menace of Hugo Weavong's Agent Smith.

Quote:"Look at you. So adorable. So cute.
Like a little chihuahua all dolled up, running around and biting
people's ankles. But tell me, have you ever seen what happens when a
chihuahua pisses off a big dog, like an American Bully? The
chihuahua tends to get eaten. Alive sometimes.
"I am not going to hold back. I'm not
going to show mercy. I'm going to destroy you. And it's because you
have made the choice to be unrepentantly evil. I can hardly care
less less about the circumstances that brought you to this point,
because now that's all they are: just circumstances. So go ahead.
Bark all you want. Snarl. Growl. Bare your teeth. By all means,
make as big of a show as you like, because it's going to be your
last."

I only noticed it now, but with the XFCE4 desktop environment, if you sideways-scroll with the pointer over a window's title bar you can adjust the alpha from about 10% (where it looks like a watermark on the desktop background or other open windows) to full opacity. Not quite a boss button and doesn't do anything about word filters if something isn't work safe, but enough to make reading over your shoulder a pain or look at reference material through what you're currently working on.

Okay, yeah, so I'm easily amused. I spent 10-15min making MacOSX's windows "dance" when I discovered the shortcut keys to have them clear the desktop, tile, form a non-overlapping grid, and return to user's original positions, too.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Yes, that is an Sisters of Battle/Adepta Sororitas army with some unexpected interlopers ;| . And yes, I'm doing them dark green armour with red tabards(sp?), loincloths and tails. Hair, undecided. Weapons, probably broken down to a different colour per squad but, I am known for painting them red - on Ultramarines.
I'm not sure on the point level I've got, I think it's roughly at the 1000 points mark, there's a tournament this weekend I could go to, but it's 1350 points. Which I think dropping in a Firestorm Redoubt would get me closer too and help solve some AA and monstrous creature problems.
As for their Pipe Organ of Doom! It's been sooooo nerfed, I that I've found there's not much point taking any. If I could take a Whirlwind I'd be using it instead of the Exorcist. Or I could've been GM-rolled by being told it only can snap shot - which means only being able to hit anything on a 6.