When you have a son and he starts thinking that gangsta thug culture is GREAT, that all the rap and hip-hop about how awesome it is to be a career criminal is something more than entertainment, that's your cue to ACT LIKE A PARENT and straighten his ass out before he gets either jailed or shot in the streets.
You know, "acting like a parent" isn't just some magic thing you do and instantly your kid is wearing polo shirts and khakis and has perfect grammar.
Everyone else, fuck you your insurance sucks. The insurance company gets to choose what tests & procedures to do - not the dr or patient.
This.
My friend recently had a problem with this. She had a problem with her back that her doctor was totally unsuccessful at treating for months. She switched to another doctor.
New Doctor said he needs to run a few tests and do a few procedures the old doctor never mentioned.
What the old doctor said when asked why he didn't do what the new doctor asked....I shit you not: "Your insurance didn't cover it so I didn't say anything." Didn't even give her option of paying for it herself. Her back is doing much better now.
I suppose you're right that there's not much of a market for complex games like this. But if the average player didn't have to deal with writing any code then it could work. The code guys might be the equivalent of the game's crafters, and people buy (using ingame currency) software from them.
so what? what's special about this vs a hundred other '80s/'90s cpu emulators?
Because if you read the article, you would have found out that you can use it to control your ship, or infect other people's computers with viruses. That sounds ridiculously fun for a space nerd programmer like myself.
I'm surprised we haven't seem more of this already. I guess the success of WoW has really dumbed down the MMO scene. Back in the day I played around with writing a BBS door game like Trade Wars 2002, but the behavior of your deployed fighters could be scripted and they could perform actions while you were offline. 0x010c looks awesome. We need more games like this.
Now, if you want to change things - stop electing the same shitballs to office at the local and state levels. It's that easy.
The shitballs are easy to identify at the federal level. But how do you identify the shitballs at local and state level? Their abuse of authority is much more less public...you can't just google it. Plus, state politics is probably where most politicians convert to the darkside. So you could have been voting for someone who seemed okay, and then the system corrupted him/her.
I'm wondering if anything can be changed by voting alone.
If you know assembly, learning any other language is pretty easy
Knowing any programming language makes learning another easier. And I would have to say that knowing a high level language makes learning another high level language easier, but knowing assembly language is less useful in this regard because it's so radically different.
Right. ADD is bullshit. So instead of getting proper medication, I'll just keep self medicating with coffee and cigarettes which erodes away my esophagus and stomach and gives me cancer. Maybe I'll try coke or meth too.
I apologize for the lack of clarity in my phrasing
There was no lack of clarity. It came through loud and clear. Kendall just ignored it and attacked. Happens all the time when dealing with zealots. Playing devils advocate, even if it's clear that you are, will make you a target of people who are governed more by emotion than reason.
But not one of the people who live there now. The people who choose to live there now choose to live in an isolated area. They may well feel more free by doing so than they ever could by traveling to a city like Anchorage. I suspect they do. But if they don't, it's still a result of their individual choices, for which no government can be blamed.
So, since you have the option of moving away, the government isn't interfering with your ability to travel? Isn't this a little like saying the government isn't infringing on your right to assemble, as long as you do it in a government approved place during government approved hours?
To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any working probes on or around Mars at this time
Not even close. Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars Express are all still operating in orbit. The Opportunity rover is still functioning on the surface, but I suspect it's nowhere near the cloud.
Anyone with a lick of sense knows that ceasing net carbon emissions will be a 30-50 year process.
Nothing this big would happen according to plan or sense. Once you've proven climate change is man made, and that the consequences of it outweigh the consequences of transforming the world to some alternative energy source, there will be very strong pressure to change things. Lawyers will sue major carbon producers. Politicians will face massive pressure from their constituency to speed the process. Power structures will shift. The middle east would be faced with a loss of their biggest export and source of political power. There are major consequences if the powers that be admit that global warming is "real", regardless of whether it is or not.
The inevitable consequence of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that climate change is man made, is cutting way back on the burning of coal and oil. That's a threat to every major economic player out there.
Yes. We can form beliefs about things based on our beliefs in the consequences of not doing so. Example: Believing in god because you'll go to hell if you don't.
But a bigger factor is 99% of the population has formed a belief about global warming based on what other people have said. Most of us have not looked at the evidence with the eye of a trained scientist. Most of us have only seen brochure style graphs and news stories and summaries of scientific findings. We're basing our opinions on what others (both credible and not credible) are saying...not what's logical. So if someone who is perceived to be credible by one social group says something is true (regardless of whether or not that person believes it), the social group will believe it.
since the data clearly supports the basic theories that make up climate science, there's no good reason to be doubting the science.
There is actually a good reason. Because ceasing all carbon emissions would be an (absolute) economic catastrophe, but dealing with the slow changes of global warming might not be.
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When you have a son and he starts thinking that gangsta thug culture is GREAT, that all the rap and hip-hop about how awesome it is to be a career criminal is something more than entertainment, that's your cue to ACT LIKE A PARENT and straighten his ass out before he gets either jailed or shot in the streets.
You know, "acting like a parent" isn't just some magic thing you do and instantly your kid is wearing polo shirts and khakis and has perfect grammar.
Everyone else, fuck you your insurance sucks. The insurance company gets to choose what tests & procedures to do - not the dr or patient.
This.
My friend recently had a problem with this. She had a problem with her back that her doctor was totally unsuccessful at treating for months. She switched to another doctor.
New Doctor said he needs to run a few tests and do a few procedures the old doctor never mentioned.
What the old doctor said when asked why he didn't do what the new doctor asked....I shit you not: "Your insurance didn't cover it so I didn't say anything." Didn't even give her option of paying for it herself. Her back is doing much better now.
Mister Saavik, punch up the data charts of Reliant's command console.
Your thinking of EVE online.
I suppose you're right that there's not much of a market for complex games like this. But if the average player didn't have to deal with writing any code then it could work. The code guys might be the equivalent of the game's crafters, and people buy (using ingame currency) software from them.
Point taken. But perhaps you'll be able to take advantage of flaws in the compilers people write...such as buffer overflows.
just because Minecraft gets a few nutters who make whole computers out of redstone Rube Goldberg parts doesn't mean there's a general call for this.
True. I'm sure the game will be playable by non-programmers too if that's what you're getting at.
If you don't like it, nut-up and write a C compiler!
There probably will be a few different compilers of different languages available by the time this game hits the shelves.
so what? what's special about this vs a hundred other '80s/'90s cpu emulators?
Because if you read the article, you would have found out that you can use it to control your ship, or infect other people's computers with viruses. That sounds ridiculously fun for a space nerd programmer like myself.
I'm surprised we haven't seem more of this already. I guess the success of WoW has really dumbed down the MMO scene. Back in the day I played around with writing a BBS door game like Trade Wars 2002, but the behavior of your deployed fighters could be scripted and they could perform actions while you were offline. 0x010c looks awesome. We need more games like this.
I've actually had girlfriends who have complained that I should sometimes just take them roughly and fuck their brains out
As have I. They even used that exact phrase.
If god intended porn to be degrading to women, he would have given them the funny looking O face instead.
Sending Christians to their death is modded funny?
What? Too soon?
Now, if you want to change things - stop electing the same shitballs to office at the local and state levels. It's that easy.
The shitballs are easy to identify at the federal level. But how do you identify the shitballs at local and state level? Their abuse of authority is much more less public...you can't just google it. Plus, state politics is probably where most politicians convert to the darkside. So you could have been voting for someone who seemed okay, and then the system corrupted him/her.
I'm wondering if anything can be changed by voting alone.
If you know assembly, learning any other language is pretty easy
Knowing any programming language makes learning another easier. And I would have to say that knowing a high level language makes learning another high level language easier, but knowing assembly language is less useful in this regard because it's so radically different.
I fail to see how supporting a corrupt local government so they'll rubber stamp whatever our corporations want to take is not stealing.
This describes governments everywhere.
Right. ADD is bullshit. So instead of getting proper medication, I'll just keep self medicating with coffee and cigarettes which erodes away my esophagus and stomach and gives me cancer. Maybe I'll try coke or meth too.
I apologize for the lack of clarity in my phrasing
There was no lack of clarity. It came through loud and clear. Kendall just ignored it and attacked. Happens all the time when dealing with zealots. Playing devils advocate, even if it's clear that you are, will make you a target of people who are governed more by emotion than reason.
But not one of the people who live there now. The people who choose to live there now choose to live in an isolated area. They may well feel more free by doing so than they ever could by traveling to a city like Anchorage. I suspect they do. But if they don't, it's still a result of their individual choices, for which no government can be blamed.
So, since you have the option of moving away, the government isn't interfering with your ability to travel? Isn't this a little like saying the government isn't infringing on your right to assemble, as long as you do it in a government approved place during government approved hours?
So is anyone watching? Would we need a set of Mars based telescopes to do that effectively, and wouldn't that be a cool project?
Yes. No. And Yes.
To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any working probes on or around Mars at this time
Not even close. Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars Express are all still operating in orbit. The Opportunity rover is still functioning on the surface, but I suspect it's nowhere near the cloud.
This seems to contradict the happy little picture of heaven that priests paint.
Anyone with a lick of sense knows that ceasing net carbon emissions will be a 30-50 year process.
Nothing this big would happen according to plan or sense. Once you've proven climate change is man made, and that the consequences of it outweigh the consequences of transforming the world to some alternative energy source, there will be very strong pressure to change things. Lawyers will sue major carbon producers. Politicians will face massive pressure from their constituency to speed the process. Power structures will shift. The middle east would be faced with a loss of their biggest export and source of political power. There are major consequences if the powers that be admit that global warming is "real", regardless of whether it is or not.
The inevitable consequence of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that climate change is man made, is cutting way back on the burning of coal and oil. That's a threat to every major economic player out there.
Doubt science because of economics?
Yes. We can form beliefs about things based on our beliefs in the consequences of not doing so. Example: Believing in god because you'll go to hell if you don't.
But a bigger factor is 99% of the population has formed a belief about global warming based on what other people have said. Most of us have not looked at the evidence with the eye of a trained scientist. Most of us have only seen brochure style graphs and news stories and summaries of scientific findings. We're basing our opinions on what others (both credible and not credible) are saying...not what's logical. So if someone who is perceived to be credible by one social group says something is true (regardless of whether or not that person believes it), the social group will believe it.
since the data clearly supports the basic theories that make up climate science, there's no good reason to be doubting the science.
There is actually a good reason. Because ceasing all carbon emissions would be an (absolute) economic catastrophe, but dealing with the slow changes of global warming might not be.