damn these pirates!!

last thing i saw on other peoples hard drive:
gears of war PC game
timeshift
call of duty 4
simpsons 19E6
robot chicken 3e13
top gear 10e5 (e4 - the african spine trip was fantastic)

just finished copying cod4. cant wait to get home and try it out.

holy sht , i saw it last night on a 8800 GTS, it was AWESOME.

any other things you saw on other peoples hard drives?

heroes, movies, mp3s, porn ...

and in the subfolders?
e.g. Golden Compass? i havent seen that before

golden compass? what are you talking about?

golden compass only starts on thursday/friday

I just got a ridiculous email telling people to boycott sterkinekors showing the movie because in the movie 2 children kill god. wtf.... I read the book 2 weeks ago - unless I lost some pages I don't even recall anymention of GOD, God or god or gOD or goD or wait.. there was a dog... maybe the person who wrote the email was dyslexic...

movie i was looking for.

i'm with you celene. we had the same debate this morning in our office.

seems we have 2 people with hard drives in this thread so far willing to state whats on it.

golden compass is a movie based on a book called northern lights in which (apparently) 2 kids kill god.

or, if you read the book that the movie is based on, its a fantasy book about a child who has a destiny. It has witches and talking animals and polar bears who wear armour in it.

my harddrive has heroes and dexters and losts on it. and some java code. also copies of some of my music cd's that I wanted to bring to work so I don't have to listen to evil munchkins talking

So its Narnia in reverse?

um, I wasn't talking about my harddrive... I was stating things I found on other peoples computers on the network.

Northern Lights is the first book in a trilogy by Philip Pullman called His Dark Materials. The events and viewpoints that spawn the controversy only occur in the later books.

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@ Velvet: ahh, I am only on page 80 of the second book.

I just find it silly that people want to boycott a movie they know nothign about. Needless to say I no longer expect reply emails fro mthe original person who sent me the email - I sent them a rather interesting email back.

@Randal : by now you should know that people will keep hijacking threads Maybe you should hijack one of the religious ones to say what you found on other peoples pcs you're probably seeign half my stuff on the network - well, except for the porn

Its fine celene, you can have this tread to talk about weird animals wearing amour. I'll rather not check your pc, I'm afraid of what I might find.

hehehe, yeah hell some people know how to sidestep an original issue

Well.. I have read all three. Very enjoyable trilogy. (Oh and I just read a recent book set in this world a whilst afterwards called "Lyra's Oxford".)

Its set in an alternative universe in which the first Angel makes himself god and is known as the Authority. In the end of the final book the Authority gets killed accidently. The Authority has a "head" totalitarian angel that has taken control, who of course is Metatron, and the parents of the heroine redeem themselves (they do some terrible things) by sacrificing themselves to destroy Metatron. But this all happens in book three ("The Amber Spyglass".

In general Philip Pullman is very critical of organised religion because of the abuse that gets carried out in order to enforce its control (eg Inqusition, crusades, witch burning) and the book carries a strong warning against it.

But it is quite spiritual as well - as love and self-sacrifice are in the end of the final book what the hero and heroine learn in order to become adults.

The Golden Compass is the first book in the trilogy but its original title was "Northern Lights"; but the American publishers changed the name. The name is inappropriate because the golden compass is in actuality a reference to the aletheiometer which is not a compass at all.

 
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possibly also because it could be mistaken for a cannabis cultivation guide.

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'i think both subjectivity and objectivity equals in meaning'
'Hey all you satanists.'
'harsh? sorry, i don't have the basic understanding of such a word.'
'I though zombies were living dead corpses walking around trying to eat young virgin girls'
'But perhaps we just transfer into another dimension. If you lived a good live you transfer into say, the 7th dimension, and if you were bad you transfer into the 6th dimension. And if your state of being is not very well defined you only get to the 5th dimension, being closest to our current 4 dimensions of perception, explaining the whole ghost thing.'
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possibly also because it could be mistaken for a cannabis cultivation guide... it can?

how?

or is that only after page 80 of book 2?

do a google image search for northern lights you'll find pictures of aurorae and... *drumroll*

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'I don't care anymore what a bunch of atheists (or whatever they want to call themselves) want to believe. Its pointless to try and convince someone of your own belief if all they care about is the bliss of their ignorance.'
'i think both subjectivity and objectivity equals in meaning'
'Hey all you satanists.'
'harsh? sorry, i don't have the basic understanding of such a word.'
'I though zombies were living dead corpses walking around trying to eat young virgin girls'
'But perhaps we just transfer into another dimension. If you lived a good live you transfer into say, the 7th dimension, and if you were bad you transfer into the 6th dimension. And if your state of being is not very well defined you only get to the 5th dimension, being closest to our current 4 dimensions of perception, explaining the whole ghost thing.'
'If I kill a snail, would that be considered as murder, because in a million years that snail might be a human?'
- Randal Flag

*cackle*

The Golden Compass is out, Yey! on the circuit and torrent.

edit: wrong thread

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'I don't care anymore what a bunch of atheists (or whatever they want to call themselves) want to believe. Its pointless to try and convince someone of your own belief if all they care about is the bliss of their ignorance.'
'i think both subjectivity and objectivity equals in meaning'
'Hey all you satanists.'
'harsh? sorry, i don't have the basic understanding of such a word.'
'I though zombies were living dead corpses walking around trying to eat young virgin girls'
'But perhaps we just transfer into another dimension. If you lived a good live you transfer into say, the 7th dimension, and if you were bad you transfer into the 6th dimension. And if your state of being is not very well defined you only get to the 5th dimension, being closest to our current 4 dimensions of perception, explaining the whole ghost thing.'
'If I kill a snail, would that be considered as murder, because in a million years that snail might be a human?'
- Randal Flag

What subject? 340?

 
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whoops, posted in wrong thread.

intended for cos332, see last two threads at http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/list.php?144

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'I don't care anymore what a bunch of atheists (or whatever they want to call themselves) want to believe. Its pointless to try and convince someone of your own belief if all they care about is the bliss of their ignorance.'
'i think both subjectivity and objectivity equals in meaning'
'Hey all you satanists.'
'harsh? sorry, i don't have the basic understanding of such a word.'
'I though zombies were living dead corpses walking around trying to eat young virgin girls'
'But perhaps we just transfer into another dimension. If you lived a good live you transfer into say, the 7th dimension, and if you were bad you transfer into the 6th dimension. And if your state of being is not very well defined you only get to the 5th dimension, being closest to our current 4 dimensions of perception, explaining the whole ghost thing.'
'If I kill a snail, would that be considered as murder, because in a million years that snail might be a human?'
- Randal Flag

anyone have VS 2008 beta 2?
i know where i can download it but i dont have broadband.

i do.