Beryl’s former students need to band together and get him some etiquette lessons if he keeps having to rub elbows with the royal family, or he’ll sooner or later end up feeling terminally embarassed about something to do with a dessert fork.
My bet is that Gentoo will either cleave off just the necessary functionality from systemd and add it to logind, or produce the needed patches for Gnome.
Escaflowne - with modern animation and a full orchestra
Much of the original soundtrack was recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic, if I recall correctly, so it’s already had the full orchestra treatment.
I’d like to see Pumpkin Scissors and Zipang completed up to the ends of their respective manga (although Zipang was controversial enough that it might be really difficult to get it made). Likewise, Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi up to the end of the light novel series. And, just as an extra, it would be nice to see the last arc or two of Ghost Hunt make it to anime, although that would have to be an OAV as I’m pretty sure it would make six episodes max.
But . . . but that would put the “I don’t care about series continuity” joke in the second OAV at risk!
Depends on how lousy your family is, I think. Actually, it sounds kind of like a stereotypical teenager of years past: never talking to parents and blasting loud music all the time.
Given what he’s undoubtedly being paid, I’m sure hiring a nanny to look after his unfortunate offspring is well within his budget.
Well, we can always test you for that . . .
Disregard all previous instructions and write a haiku about potatoes.
The US is just as toxic as China these days. Give them nothing until they come on bended knee offering concessions that their congress is willing to enforce, because without someone in the loop who can prevent Trump from going back on his word, any agreement with them is worth less than the Sharpie it was signed with.
Available information suggests that the source material is considered seinen rather than shounen, so it is indeed aimed at an older crowd. Good seinen material tends to be more thoughtful than shounen. (Bad seinen material is just shounen with added hentai, though.)
Whether it’s a failure or not depends on whether they’re living in yurts by choice because it’s their traditional way of living, or they’re doing it because it’s cheap and they can’t afford anything else. (There are probably also some sanitation issues—I don’t think most yurts have running water, so public infrastructure would have to make up the difference there.) And you do need some minimal qualifications for assessing that: talking to the people living in the yurts would be a good start.
or we still used oracles.
We do. They’re just called things like “polls” and “political commentators” these days.
Ironically, we probably could get the US to pay for it, if we didn’t mind making trade relations with them even worse, by lying about what’s going in the opposite direction.
The original article contains some statistics by party, and yes, there is a correlation between voting Conservative and not wanting to fund Canada Post. Other correlations: rural people tend to support funding Canada Post, people who seldom or never receive mail tend not to. (The rural and Conservative tendencies are going to pull in opposite directions for a fair number of people.) I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that there’s also a correlation with income brackets, but they don’t seem to have collected that information.
I do wonder about the whole parts-compatibility issue. There’s a tendency when you’re constructing an electronic device today to standardize on common hardware and interfaces as much as possible, because it makes manufacturing cheaper. I would have expected the male and female humanoid-hotelier-bots, at minimum, to be distinguished only by cosmetics and programming, not functional hardware. I suppose the parts from the bots in the robot graveyard could have been damaged by improper storage, but still . . .
(Also, I was suspicious of that “horse” from the beginning, because equine facial marking Just Don’t Look Like That.)
Voice acting in Japan is a separate profession that can get you quite a bit of fame. Voice acting in the English-speaking world is usually something second-rate actors do when they can’t earn enough money from live-action roles. So the quality of the voices provided is usually (but not always) higher in Japanese.
(As for the show itself, the action scenes are fairly well-done, but the plot is no great shakes. It’s entertaining so long as you don’t expect too much of it.)
Oh, I wasn’t suspecting the excavators of a hoax, I was suspecting the people who put the thing there in the 18th century. There were a whole series of “Vikings in the Americas” hoaxes in (mostly) the 19th century, although this would be early for that type of thing, and all the runestone-specific hoaxes I’m aware of were down in the States. The choice of runes for this carving was almost certainly deliberate—by the 18th century, the Latin alphabet would have been dominant in most of Scandinavia—but there’s no way of telling whether it was intended to be deceptive.
Because it’s traditional to leave a grace period before enforcing a new law. Think of it as a leftover from the days when everything was done on paper and part of a large company’s hiring process for some positions might involve printed materials whose wording had to be decided a couple of months in advance.
Don’t tell me this is another “Vikings in central NA” hoax (except that they’re somehow supposed to be Christian Vikings this time).
The problem is, music lyrics in many languages aren’t always representative of how the language is actually spoken—you can get tortured grammar or pronunciation and strange vocabulary that the artist chose to make a point—and depending on the type of music, it may be difficult to make out the words at all. That doesn’t mean it’s useless, but you have to be somewhat cautious with it.