The problem with the story is that it's set up so badly it defeats the point. There's more than enough mass on the ship to compensate. Worst case, the chick loses a leg, which is painful, but not deadly, what with the instant cauterization from the laser.
The ship is one of the worst engineered spaceships I've read about as well. Here's an idea: Laser off the pointless closet door and throw it into space. There you go, you've made the ship safer, lighter, and more efficient. Oh, and toss out the sign as well. The pilot *should* be performing a pre-flight checklist, and a sign isn't going to be effective for the intended purpose, particularly such a badly composed one. Replace it with a heat sensor - as a bonus, you can now check your cargo. And what's with all the wasted volume? It's a freaking spaceship, you don't make anything bigger than you need to.
This situation is so badly set up it's farcical. In some ways, it resembles the ending to the third X-men movie. "Oh no! (Bub) Jean's mutant powers are making her crazy. If only there were some way to stop her. Some sort of... mutant power destroying substance that was put into a form designed to make it easy to apply to an unwilling subject... nope, (Bub) guess I gotta kill her. Snikt!"
Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
What, in your opinion, is the purpose of students taking a literature course?
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
I take it you never read "As I Lay Dying" in school.
Likewise, this? Somebody wrote a master's thesis about a *paragraph* from 1984? And even more than one person has done this?
Probably if you consider the implications of the afterword being written in the past tense, you could make the indepth-analysis of a single paragraph into the thesis, with supporting references from elsewhere in the text.
Unless they explicitly enable it to have access to anything useful, don't give it to unsigned software and throttle the internet access for it and be sure the user knows what it is doing when it does it.
And so the user just becomes trained to click yes to every box that pops up without reading it, and we're back to square one.
>"ok, how do you plan on explaining how you suddenly got a billion dollars?"
Thanks to the government's response to Nixon, you can't be prosecuted for information you give out on your tax returns. So just put it down on your federal income tax as "betraying my country".
Yeah, in World War II, when those with severe red-green or other forms of colorblindness were pressed into service as bombardiers instead of other branches, in view of their ability to "see through" colored camouflage, and not be distracted by what would be, to the normally sighted, a confusing and deceiving configuration of colors.
I disagree. I'm not entirely certain how you can consider something not to be science when it's something that's as well documented, tested, and publicized as the placebo effect.
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Not all of them, but the high quality ones can.
There's a name for pilots who don't always do their pre-flight checklists.
Dead.
Doesn't matter if you're in a hurry. You do your preflight checklist.
Fine, they'll click whatever button is farthest to the left.
You're under the mistaken impression that users actually read messages. As a whole, they don't.
The problem with the story is that it's set up so badly it defeats the point.
There's more than enough mass on the ship to compensate. Worst case, the chick loses a leg, which is painful, but not deadly, what with the instant cauterization from the laser.
The ship is one of the worst engineered spaceships I've read about as well. Here's an idea: Laser off the pointless closet door and throw it into space. There you go, you've made the ship safer, lighter, and more efficient. Oh, and toss out the sign as well. The pilot *should* be performing a pre-flight checklist, and a sign isn't going to be effective for the intended purpose, particularly such a badly composed one. Replace it with a heat sensor - as a bonus, you can now check your cargo. And what's with all the wasted volume? It's a freaking spaceship, you don't make anything bigger than you need to.
This situation is so badly set up it's farcical. In some ways, it resembles the ending to the third X-men movie. "Oh no! (Bub) Jean's mutant powers are making her crazy. If only there were some way to stop her. Some sort of... mutant power destroying substance that was put into a form designed to make it easy to apply to an unwilling subject... nope, (Bub) guess I gotta kill her. Snikt!"
Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
What, in your opinion, is the purpose of students taking a literature course?
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
I take it you never read "As I Lay Dying" in school.
Likewise, this? Somebody wrote a master's thesis about a *paragraph* from 1984? And even more than one person has done this?
Probably if you consider the implications of the afterword being written in the past tense, you could make the indepth-analysis of a single paragraph into the thesis, with supporting references from elsewhere in the text.
Why doesn't it take MUCH more power at the receiving end to "make matter" than it takes at the sending end to break it apart
Conservation of energy. They're very efficient with the "breaking people apart" step.
Even modern fingerprint readers can distinguish between living and dead fingers.
My mother was an insectoid alien, you insensitive clod!
Unless they explicitly enable it to have access to anything useful, don't give it to unsigned software and throttle the internet access for it and be sure the user knows what it is doing when it does it.
And so the user just becomes trained to click yes to every box that pops up without reading it, and we're back to square one.
Hey, you had an extra "r" in that post.
computers are not able to distinguish between a paragraph of As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) and a gallon of sophomoric babble
Then I'd say they're pretty accurate.
I think you accidentally linked to a clip from The Mummy instead.
Not for the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion research. It sidesteps most of the issues present in Tokomak research.
On the other hand, indie games can still be published.
Cave story for the Wii! Woo!
And the roots make an excellent form of tofu.
Nuke the entire site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
It gives version number too.
4. You live in Japan, where they're actually required to have the picture match up with the product.
>"ok, how do you plan on explaining how you suddenly got a billion dollars?"
Thanks to the government's response to Nixon, you can't be prosecuted for information you give out on your tax returns. So just put it down on your federal income tax as "betraying my country".
I just bind quicksave and quickload to the left and right mouse buttons.
But your way works too.
I thought it said "Microsoft Repeatedly Punching Apple Retail Staff"
Yeah, in World War II, when those with severe red-green or other forms of colorblindness were pressed into service as bombardiers instead of other branches, in view of their ability to "see through" colored camouflage, and not be distracted by what would be, to the normally sighted, a confusing and deceiving configuration of colors.
Getting darkvision isn't all sunshine and roses.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4601
I disagree. I'm not entirely certain how you can consider something not to be science when it's something that's as well documented, tested, and publicized as the placebo effect.
The brain is really awesome about getting the right wiring for interpreting signals. For example, the widely publicized "seeing tongue" research.