katana

Then stab somebody with a katana on your way out. It's the only way these people will learn.

Half width katana would get rejected. Protip: if you have a shitty registration name, have it change, that's easy and that's for you own good.

Hiro deflects a spear with a katana. There's a man with his own nuclear deterrence strategy.

In the same way you wouldn't have to be a samurai master to use a katana to cut a watermelon.

For my own part, I just decided to switch back to Slackware when my roommate wanted to play Sword & Sworcery and Ubuntu kept trying to sell her a katana. You can only tolerate so much...

Actually, I would figure it'd be easier for them to hurt you with a pocket knife than a katana. Airplanes are small spaces, and large swords are unwieldy. Even samurai used wakizashis indoors more than huge katanas.

Job descriptions just shouldn't have "rock star" or "ninja" unless they are hired on their ability to perform music in front of an audience or on their katana wielding skills.

Its actually silly to see a guy in a three piece suit run around with a katana or a cyborg girl in a fishnet bodysuit shoot a machinegun at a group of robot assassins. Once you try to make it "gritty" and "real" you end up with clunkers like Hackers or Johnny Mnemonic.

U$d 160 a month is sort of on the cheap side for the kind of images in that landing page, specially if you are thinking about the katana one. And of the stock photo services, Getty is by far the one that treats the photographers with most respect and compensates them very competitively.

Yes, you're right, it would cost a lot to create the katana image by hiring a hot blonde martial-arts expert, buying or renting a katana, and rigging expensive lights in a fancy hotel ballroom. It would cost a lot to create the war image by commissioning a photojournalist to sneak professional gear into a conflict zone.

But I often feel it's more like trying to cut vegetables with a katana: it's challenging, it's fun to practice, and surely it's a powerful tool, but even if I become a master at it I won't accomplish much alone, and I definetly won't want people trying this next to me. The thought of a bad programmer trying to look smart while fiddling in my Haskell code scares me to no end.

Katana image: model, make up, big room with stupidly expensive lamps, costume, katana, watermelon, more than one 1k/2k+ flash head. War image: ticket to war zone, bulletproof vest, AK-47, missile launcher, missile, model/combatant.