Last night I was able to get up to around level 70 on Ant Buster. (72, maybe? The ants had 2k or 3k hitpoints.) Basically I had an ice cannon near the hole and another one near the cake, a couple of long-range guns that could hit the slowed down ants anywhere, and a heavy gun near the hole to weaken them as they come out and finish them off as they try to escape. Earlier on I had 3 triple guns around the cake but I sold them off/converted one to an ice gun as they seemed to become less effective.
Not directly, anyway; it looks like Richard is asking whether this spam he's received from Mark Edwards could be from the same source as the one in the OP.
"palan-tīrala" allowed me to guess the author, though not the exact passage.
"EltÄringua" and "Spanoioglossen" led me to guess (wildly) Interlingua for the translated language...
Luke 16:23 occurs in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Surely even a literalist isn't required to believe that this particular rich man ever existed in fact, let alone went to hell, any more than they would have to believe that the parables of the Good Samaritan or Prodigal Son were factual reportage?
(Although the story does lose its teeth, if not its point, if there is no hell or no way to get there.)
IIRC, the idea that parables need not be read as literal truth is used by some inerrantists to square the apparent contradiction of this passage with some others which state that the dead sleep until judgment day.
Favorite prime: 37. Mainly because of this novel.
There's a new thread at Pandagon about disemvowelling. So far, a couple of ex-Making Light/Electrolite trolls have surfaced to complain about the technique, amusingly enough.
adamsj:
Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor: Off with his head!
Actually, I voted for him too. My excuse is that I didn't have a working TV at the time, and only knew about the race what I read, and couldn't believe that a coddled dimwit playboy princeling with a lifelong history of failure was any kind of electoral threat at all, $40 million or no. I assumed my 2000 vote for Nader, as my 1996 vote for him, would be a futile protest in the face of a landslide victory for an increasingly rightist Democrat party.
Anyway, you can't pin a thing on me personally, as my state went Gore. :P
Terry Karney:
Ammo, well yes, a bit of familiarity with recoil and such is nice, but dry fire will improve most people's shooting far more than actually burning powder.
How does that work? I would have thought that to improve your skill, you would need the feedback of seeing where your bullets hit relative to the mark.
>>American and Australian:
>>Never trust a judge who offers you a deal involving sex and a pardon for your husband in the morning.
>Er, I think that's from Tosca. Though I'd be interested to know a folk song with the same theme.
Sounds like Dylan's "Seven Curses". I don't know if there are any more ancient folk sources, though at a quick google, this looks like it might lead to some info.
If you are a young handsome sailor aboard a ship or walking down by the seaside, earplugs are a good idea.
Better yet, an iPod-- loaded with British folk ballads.
...as if it were necessary.
That "passing strange" particle looks like someone fed Tolkien and a poker strategy guide into dadadodo, or some other dissociator.
Spoily comic:
http://piratemonkeysinc.com/wsdm.htm
It was JPII who called Thich Nhat Hanh the Anti-Christ.
That's dynamite, if true (and I certainly don't mean in a good way).
However, googling on "Thich Hahn antichrist pope", I only find Matthew Fox's essay referring to it. Does anyone know where the primary source is?
Lucy: You can get into www.statesman.com using BugMeNot.
The article is an editorial by one John Kelso, dated Sunday April 24. The seizure of the knitting needles occurred on "Wednesday", presumably the 20th.
Eleanor:
You can see this in the classical authors. The character of Odysseus, for example, shows up variously as a humane man who has compassion even for his enemies (Sophocles' Ajax), a compassionless sophist politician (Euripides' Hecuba), and a crude and ineffectual blackguard (Philoctetes, by Sophocles again).
Xopher:
Darned if I wasn't making that connection just a couple of hours ago! I still think Palpatine is the better fit, though-- Scorpius is way too skinny, though the smile definitely has the same quality. Besides, Scorpius never pretended to be anything but a villain... (And I don't think a photo of Scorpy would have stayed up on Wikipedia so long.)
On the general subject of papal infallibility: I recently attended a talk by John Spong. He reported that whenever he attempts to engage Catholic leaders on tolerance for gays and lesbians, or inclusion of women in the priesthood, the first thing he always hears in response is, "of course, you know the Pope is infallible." If he's reporting this straight, then the official, narrow restriction of infallibility to ex cathedra statements of dogma is often blurred or disregarded even by highly positioned clerics.
Wait, that's a parody? ...yep, looking again just now, I see the Landover Baptist link on the side. Cripes, my own Onboard Parody Detector is sprung by now.
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