Who were the Sith? Why has the "Emperor" got such a grudge against the Republic? Why is it the Jedi seem to have a rich and full history of powerful padawans going to the dark side yet they never got it together enough to vet out the potential wanasiths? All these answers , well most of these answers, and more can be found in this youtube playlist.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Depardieu pees all over a plane…Schmidt pees all over privacy issues.
""The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity," Schmidt said. "In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
Those are some of the things Schmidt said today and his comments proved fairly controversial."
Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke on a panel at Techonomy today and offered some juicy facts and perspective worth taking note of. Here are some of the key quotes I picked up from his contribution to the …
How to settle a legal fight over the name of a game? If you are a cool as shiz game dev like Notch you come up with something like this….
"I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.
If we win, you drop the lawsuit.
If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with."
Think it is silly? Think spending megabucks on lawyers is any less silly.
Hey, Bethesda! Let’s settle this! I am back, and I am excited. Marriage has been wonderful so far, and nobody sabotaged my computer while I was gone. The only negative thing going on at this moment is…
"The planned community checked off all the boxes of the "new urbanist" manifesto: a mix of housing types paired with centrally located amenities, designed for pedestrians and cars as well as public transport–oriented.
Instead of embracing that transportation vision, however, the residents of King Farm and the Rockville City Council recently rejected the proposed transit plan—specifically, any light-rail line that would travel down the swath of green explicitly designed to host such a system."
"Consider the bean burrito: last year, in arriving from the factory wrapped in cellophane, each one had more than 35 ingredients, including things like potassium citrate and zinc oxide. This year: 12, including real cheddar cheese. Italian salad dressing went from 19 ingredients to 9, with sodium reduced by almost three-fourths and sugar — the fourth ingredient in the factory blend — eliminated entirely."
Districts in Colorado have become leaders in the back-to-scratch school lunch movement.
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