>> ^Yogi:

Game of Thrones is quite a good show. That being said whoever decided to kill Sean Bean off is a moron and should be fired for writing moronically. Yes everyone can say "but it happened in the book" I'm not watching a book...I'm watching a fucking TV show that can be changed...Change it to do something good and not something stupid you bunch of fucking morons.


A) Spoiler warning please? It's unlikely, but it's possible someone who hasn't seen the show yet or hasn't watched that episode yet could be reading these comments.

B) I couldn't disagree more. That was such a devastating moment; I can't remember the last time I was that shocked and upset by something on a TV show. After that episode ended I remember just sitting in front of my TV in stunned silence for a good five minutes. That was the moment that Game of Thrones, in my mind, went from very good to all-time classic. Seriously, what a ballsy, bad-ass move to kill of the MAIN CHARACTER of your show. I loved it. I finally discovered how audiences back in the '60s must have felt when Janet Leigh was killed off in Psycho. It's an amazing, jaw-dropping twist.

Plus, killing off that character ups the show's tension a million-fold, because truly, NO ONE is safe. People said that about a show like 24 because they killed off a lot of characters, but we always knew that Jack and Chloe were going to be okay. But if they can kill off Sean Bean, then there isn't a single character on that show who couldn't die at any moment.

Anyway, Sean Bean's death has pretty much galvanized all the characters on Game of Thrones, so I don't see how they could have kept him alive without changing the entire direction of the story.

I mean I always knew that birds could produce music that's better than most pop music today; but now we have the PROOF! :-D

"I always knew there was a risk in the bohemian lifestyle... I decided to take it because it helped my concentration, it stopped me being bored – it stopped other people being boring. It would make me want to prolong the conversation and enhance the moment. If you ask: would I do it again? I would probably say yes. But I would have quit earlier hoping to get away with the whole thing. I decided all of life is a wager and I'm going to wager on this bit... In a strange way I don't regret it. It's just impossible for me to picture life without wine, and other things, fueling the company, keeping me reading, energising me. It worked for me. It really did."
Christopher Hitchens

Hey ghandi, remember me, the crazy guy with the crazy idea? I switched majors to biology but I keep on keeping on with the dreaming. Chemistry is a lot more interesting than a state university's current idea of computer science. My wait-and-see attitude, coupled with my tendency to only do things i enjoy, lets me stick to projects where I can make personally satisfactory progress. Other people will have to complete the LDP as I sort of always knew.

Check these out regarding logical discourse:

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"This seems like the perfect question to pose to Slashdotters: how would you foster more dynamic spaces for online news discussion? How would you preserve the context of online discussions and stamp out trolls? " Sound familiar?

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/203221/Ask-Slashdot-Going-Beyond-Comment-Threads

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Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. With our images and statistics, you can help identify misuse of Twitter. Our first application was the study of astroturf campaigns in elections. Now we're extending our focus to the diffusion of all types of information in social media.

http://truthy.indiana.edu


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United States Patent 7,805,291 Berkowitz Appl. No.: 11/137,594
Filed: May 25, 2005
September 28, 2010

Method of identifying topic of text using nouns


Abstract
A method of identifying a topic of a text. Text is received. Then, the nouns in the text are identified. The singular form of each identified noun is determined. Combinations are created of the singular form of the identified nouns, where the number of singular forms of the nouns in the combinations is user-definable. The frequency of occurrence in the text of each noun that corresponds to its singular form is determined. Each frequency of occurrence is assigned as a score to its corresponding singular form noun. Each combination of singular form nouns is assigned a score that is equal to the sum of the scores of its constituent singular form nouns. The user-definable number of top scoring singular form nouns and combinations of singular form nouns are selected as the topic of the text.

Inventors: Berkowitz; Sidney (Baltimore, MD)
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Director National Security Agency (Washington, DC)
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This paper was coming out about the time I started to get interested in the possibility of analyzing for semantics and stuff. Good thing someone smarter figured it out.

Modeling public mood and emotion: Twitter sentiment and socio-economic phenomena
Authors: Johan Bollen, Alberto Pepe, Huina Mao
(Submitted on 9 Nov 2009)

Abstract: Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A variegated mosaic of microblogging uses has emerged since the launch of Twitter in 2006: daily chatter, conversation, information sharing, and news commentary, among others. Regardless of their content and intended use, tweets often convey pertinent information about their author's mood status. As such, tweets can be regarded as temporally-authentic microscopic instantiations of public mood state. In this article, we perform a sentiment analysis of all public tweets broadcasted by Twitter users between August 1 and December 20, 2008. For every day in the timeline, we extract six dimensions of mood (tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, confusion) using an extended version of the Profile of Mood States (POMS), a well-established psychometric instrument. We compare our results to fluctuations recorded by stock market and crude oil price indices and major events in media and popular culture, such as the U.S. Presidential Election of November 4, 2008 and Thanksgiving Day. We find that events in the social, political, cultural and economic sphere do have a significant, immediate and highly specific effect on the various dimensions of public mood. We speculate that large scale analyses of mood can provide a solid platform to model collective emotive trends in terms of their predictive value with regards to existing social as well as economic indicators.


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Cheers,

Vairetube

Well, I grew up with it and have been yelling at family members for years. It is only in the past decade that I finally figured out how to talk about it in a way that left me with my dignity intact.

Isn't it odd that it didn't "take" with me? I always knew it was wrong, I wasn't taught that it was wrong.

You ARE lucky not to have to hear it.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Glad to help push it up on the Top 15 where it belongs.

I'm lucky, I don't hear that kind of stuff from family members. I can imagine how uncomfortable and frustrating that must be. I really don't understand how people can think that kind of thing is even remotely defensible. It's as if they really think they shouldn't have to be embarrassed or ashamed about those kinds of thoughts.

In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
Thanks for the quality.

I just spent two days with my racist uncle, who ended up yelling in my face "you haven't lived with them, you don't know what its like!" because I wouldn't let him use the N word without me responding in some fashion (calmly responding, by the way -- fascinating to watch him get angrier and angrier when I just asked him reasonable questions. Did you know that the only good niggers are older? Dang.)

I am very very glad that this made Top 15. It is like a cool shower on a hot day after having to listen to him.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
*quality

I always knew there were things on the internet that you can not un-see.
Now I know there are things you can not un-hear as well.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I always knew Ethel was barking up the wrong tree.

I always knew the safety standards were abysmal but seeing the footage that close to the actual blast site for a person that's basically cooking as they stand there... Freaking terrible/incredible.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^jwray:
They should have put the original unreal tournament in there. That came out around the same time as Quake 3 but it was waaaaay better.
That depends on what you consider better. I always knew UT as a haven for those who couldn't compete in Q3.
UT has a superior engine, probably, but when I played it I felt like it was just a collection of "cool stuff". Q3 felt like a really fine-tuned game, far more suitable to competitive matches. Everything had a purpose in Q3 or it got cut. UT had every feature any developer ever thought of, even if it served no purpose.


None of that "featuritis" hurt the performance of the software, though. It was very quick and reliable. When you joined a server, it would automatically download all the mod files you needed while showing an accurate and responsive progress bar, using some kind of secure hashing to make sure you got the right file, so it worked every time (unlike CS / CSS / TF2, which often glitch out and lock you out of a server because you don't have the right mod files instead of just re-downloading them from the server, and go unresponsive for many seconds at a time while loading or downloading any map)

Q3's relative lack of modability really cut its replay value.

>> ^jwray:

They should have put the original unreal tournament in there. That came out around the same time as Quake 3 but it was waaaaay better.

That depends on what you consider better. I always knew UT as a haven for those who couldn't compete in Q3.

UT has a superior engine, probably, but when I played it I felt like it was just a collection of "cool stuff". Q3 felt like a really fine-tuned game, far more suitable to competitive matches. Everything had a purpose in Q3 or it got cut. UT had every feature any developer ever thought of, even if it served no purpose.

I always knew Grover was black...

Pornography may be mainstream with easy access to alright 20 minute scenes ; but it is not absolutely accepted. I've lived in fairly open homes where girlfriends, girls who were in opposition to porn and in general could walk in and out freely so I had to be fairly careful with my own porn consumption.

Not only were there women around who had great disdain for porno but in the household were men who also hated the thought of porno. Now, mind you - KINK.COM's "huge fucking castle" was the next block down in a very very liberal part of town. On the same block was some orgy house where some of it's participants every now and then thought our front door was the entrance to their ultimate fantasies. I always knew which way to point them, "Oh, I think I know what you're looking for..."

Everyone knew I watched porn and I stuck up for other men's porn habits but I still had to be on edge all the damn time to get a wank. It just wasn't right! Sometimes your gf isn't in the mood, sometimes you're pissed at your gf and you're not in the mood, sometimes there just isn't enough time... I don't like the thought of my politics in porno so I say fuck - let it be; and let me watch it if I so choose. If a girlfriend doesn't like it - just encourage her to go watch some.

I swear that being anti-porn is the beginning of the progessive pendulum swing back to being tie-jerking conservatives and we just don't need any more of those.

She's gone. I always knew this day would come. She was too good for me, and even though she always denied that whenever I mentioned it, I could always tell she was looking for someone better.

Now I'm alone again, naturally. *runs away crying*

Excellent sift rasch! I always knew Judas got a bad rap. Fricken' Christians.
I could also see this in the science and history channels.

I always knew Morbo was a big softy at heart.