It's not a MMORPG, but it is a MORPG. Fallout 3 is a great game where you can pretty much do whatever you want. All the skills are individual and independent. It does have a multiplayer, nut I would like to see a Fallout MMORPG. It is an interesting universe, with multiple factions that people can side with.
Well if you mean the easily accessible resources that the government will let you get at, then yes... There is still plenty of easily accessible oil in places the government won't let us tap (ANWAR, West Coast, etc) and coal will likely be available in very large quantities that can't be used today because of environmental regulations, but in a post-apocalyptic anarchy period, would be burned like there's no tomorrow.
I don't know if you've noticed, but we have managed to get off this rock. The problem is finding another rock that we can survive on. So far, even the most catastrophic disaster short of the sun blowing up will still leave the earth more likely to support humans than any other planet (or moon) we've discovered.
I already posted in this thread, so I can't mod this informative... But yes, it is true that for some reason the oil industry uses accounting notation, not scientific notation and thus M is thousand not million (M from roman numerals as opposed to short for Mega). So M is thousand, MM is million, and (really stupid) B is billion.
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. A lot of investment had to go into refineries to be able to get the sulfur content in the fuel down to new mandated levels. Once the investment is paid off, diesel may again be cheaper than gasoline, especially since diesel actually takes less energy to produce.
What about when cartridges report via the driver that they are low, when they aren't? My brother printer will not print a page if one of the cartridges says it is low. It won't even print a black and white page if one of the colors is out. Luckily online I found out that a piece of electrical tape fixes the problem, otherwise I'd be pretty pissed. When my printer starts spewing faded pages, I'll replace my cartridge, not before.
Ok, this is off topic, but I like how you mentioned crossing a bridge involves trusting your life to a computer model. I happen to be a civil engineer, so yes computer modeling is used to make bridges. However, these computer models are based on centuries of data, and also based on a very tight tolerance of the materials used. If you can show that the atmosphere of the earth is as homogeneous as A36 steel (which is a low grade), I'll eat both my feet. In fact, I'll eat one foot if you can show that the atmosphere is even as close to being accurately modeled as concrete design, which is based on empirical data as opposed to steel's theoretical methods.
I totally agree with you that a lot of alternative theories don't hold up to scrutiny. But that still doesn't prove AGW. You could disprove 1000 more counter-theories, and that wouldn't prove AGW. The only thing that can prove AGW is future data... And well into the future as well. What pisses me off is that people are talking about the next 50-100 years. Climate happens on the order of 100,000 years, not a few decades. Humans have no sense of the timescale of this planet, and are quite full of themselves to be claiming they are powerful enough to change the course of the planet in just a few years.
We cannot make decisions based on computer models, because I have ran fairly accurate computer models that have shown Germany winning WWII (try having the AI face itself in Battlefield 1942, it's a computer simulation based on a limited amount of data). Computer models cannot give us certainty, they can give us a guess (a very educated guess, but a guess) of what MAY happen in the future. If you had to bet your job and life savings on these computer models, I'd bet you wouldn't. Any with cap-and-trade legislation, you may very well be betting your job and life savings.
I hate the term deniers as well, but the minority has no bearing in a scientific argument, just like the counter-argument I am going to make about Copernicus and Newton being in the minority.
Now don't get me wrong, I love wikipedia, and use it frequently. But there is some irony in the fact that you just cited a non-peer reviewed, public edited, frequently sabotaged, collection of user generated content, that happens to be a secondary source to back up a scientific argument? My grade school english teacher would like to slap you.
I'm glad you didn't fill your post with expletives. Trolls are useless, but your (rightfully modded) interesting post incited me to respond.
You're very good at this "PR" thing. And I have no argument with your discussion of language. However, every government has a track record of screwing their populace that has much better data than any climate science. You don't argue that point, you change the subject to letting private businesses regulate things. Thank GOD businesses don't run my life. No business can force me to do anything.
If I care about the environment, then I plant a tree. If I don't want to emit carbon, I don't drive my car and don't use the lights. If I want a hamburger, I drive to Wendy's and get one. If I don't like Wendy's then the market provides alternatives. What do I do if I don't want Social Security. Oh wait, I don't have a choice.
Free markets can price long term costs. However, YOU (and the rest of consumers) don't care about the long term. This can be proven by the idiots charging up credit cards that they cannot afford, buying houses with ARMs, and buying big ass SUVs with low mileage. Stop blaming the free market for giving you what you want. Also, why should businesses plan for the long term, when the government can step in and bail their asses out for the bad, short sighted, and incredibly stupid decisions they make.
Now let's get real, just like you didn't change my opinion, I'm not changing yours, but let's not blame businesses for the decisions that PEOPLE make. Because businesses are just made up entities built to take the blame of the people that run them.
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. And the Science gets done. And you make a neat gun. For the people who are still alive. I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart. And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time. So I'm GLaD. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned for the people who are still alive. Go ahead and leave me. I think I prefer to stay inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa THAT WAS A JOKE. HAHA. FAT CHANCE. Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking when there's Science to do. When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you. I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive. And believe me I am still alive. I'm doing Science and I'm still alive. I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.
You're right, any research paid for by someone who stands to profit should be ignored. So don't take any medical drugs, don't use hybrid engines, and don't trust the government (who stands to profit immensely from global warming scaremongering).
Actually, to be a little pedantic, climate cycles in the past are not "thousands of years". That's stupid human race time scale interfering. According to historical climate data, the "natural" cycle of ice ages is on the order of 100,000 years. So if we do your same 2 orders of magnitude differential, we are only down to 1000 years until our doom comes from global warming. What was the earth like in 1009? Did we even have reliable records?
Too bad standard education doesn't teach kids squat. High school graduates these days have spent most of their young lives wasting away behind a desk. There is nothing wrong with some people doing a menial, physical labor, low-paying job. Not everyone has to be educated in a society. Right now we have to import other workers from mexico, china, and the rest of the world to do the jobs that americans are too educated (or rather too low paying) to take. For some reason, our labor force has it in their head that even with just a basic education, they should make $50,000 or more each year to do something that people in other countries will willing do for a few thousand. THAT is why we cannot compete with other countries.
Plus maybe if we got rid of some things (like welfare) maybe there wouldn't be so much government encouragement to stay poor, and people would willingly pay for an education to get better jobs.
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I ask you to please re-read your post, and then tell me how much the government wastes every day. (Hint: It's more than 1000 bucks)
It's not a MMORPG, but it is a MORPG. Fallout 3 is a great game where you can pretty much do whatever you want. All the skills are individual and independent. It does have a multiplayer, nut I would like to see a Fallout MMORPG. It is an interesting universe, with multiple factions that people can side with.
Well if you mean the easily accessible resources that the government will let you get at, then yes... There is still plenty of easily accessible oil in places the government won't let us tap (ANWAR, West Coast, etc) and coal will likely be available in very large quantities that can't be used today because of environmental regulations, but in a post-apocalyptic anarchy period, would be burned like there's no tomorrow.
And don't you get so much value out of this "for the heck of it" service that you are willing to pay for it?
I don't know if you've noticed, but we have managed to get off this rock. The problem is finding another rock that we can survive on. So far, even the most catastrophic disaster short of the sun blowing up will still leave the earth more likely to support humans than any other planet (or moon) we've discovered.
There's a story behind Tubgirl? I never bothered to ask since I avoid thinking about it at all costs...
I already posted in this thread, so I can't mod this informative... But yes, it is true that for some reason the oil industry uses accounting notation, not scientific notation and thus M is thousand not million (M from roman numerals as opposed to short for Mega). So M is thousand, MM is million, and (really stupid) B is billion.
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. A lot of investment had to go into refineries to be able to get the sulfur content in the fuel down to new mandated levels. Once the investment is paid off, diesel may again be cheaper than gasoline, especially since diesel actually takes less energy to produce.
If you put the tape on the clear section in the back of the cartridge, the electrical tape will form around it and the cartridge will appear full.
What about when cartridges report via the driver that they are low, when they aren't? My brother printer will not print a page if one of the cartridges says it is low. It won't even print a black and white page if one of the colors is out. Luckily online I found out that a piece of electrical tape fixes the problem, otherwise I'd be pretty pissed. When my printer starts spewing faded pages, I'll replace my cartridge, not before.
Ok, this is off topic, but I like how you mentioned crossing a bridge involves trusting your life to a computer model. I happen to be a civil engineer, so yes computer modeling is used to make bridges. However, these computer models are based on centuries of data, and also based on a very tight tolerance of the materials used. If you can show that the atmosphere of the earth is as homogeneous as A36 steel (which is a low grade), I'll eat both my feet. In fact, I'll eat one foot if you can show that the atmosphere is even as close to being accurately modeled as concrete design, which is based on empirical data as opposed to steel's theoretical methods.
I totally agree with you that a lot of alternative theories don't hold up to scrutiny. But that still doesn't prove AGW. You could disprove 1000 more counter-theories, and that wouldn't prove AGW. The only thing that can prove AGW is future data... And well into the future as well. What pisses me off is that people are talking about the next 50-100 years. Climate happens on the order of 100,000 years, not a few decades. Humans have no sense of the timescale of this planet, and are quite full of themselves to be claiming they are powerful enough to change the course of the planet in just a few years.
We cannot make decisions based on computer models, because I have ran fairly accurate computer models that have shown Germany winning WWII (try having the AI face itself in Battlefield 1942, it's a computer simulation based on a limited amount of data). Computer models cannot give us certainty, they can give us a guess (a very educated guess, but a guess) of what MAY happen in the future. If you had to bet your job and life savings on these computer models, I'd bet you wouldn't. Any with cap-and-trade legislation, you may very well be betting your job and life savings.
I hate the term deniers as well, but the minority has no bearing in a scientific argument, just like the counter-argument I am going to make about Copernicus and Newton being in the minority.
How come "all-climate-scientist-were-one-big-conspiracy" is so much more absurd than "all-global-warming-deniers-are-funded-by-big-oil"?
Now don't get me wrong, I love wikipedia, and use it frequently. But there is some irony in the fact that you just cited a non-peer reviewed, public edited, frequently sabotaged, collection of user generated content, that happens to be a secondary source to back up a scientific argument? My grade school english teacher would like to slap you.
I'm glad you didn't fill your post with expletives. Trolls are useless, but your (rightfully modded) interesting post incited me to respond.
You're very good at this "PR" thing. And I have no argument with your discussion of language. However, every government has a track record of screwing their populace that has much better data than any climate science. You don't argue that point, you change the subject to letting private businesses regulate things. Thank GOD businesses don't run my life. No business can force me to do anything.
If I care about the environment, then I plant a tree. If I don't want to emit carbon, I don't drive my car and don't use the lights. If I want a hamburger, I drive to Wendy's and get one. If I don't like Wendy's then the market provides alternatives. What do I do if I don't want Social Security. Oh wait, I don't have a choice.
Free markets can price long term costs. However, YOU (and the rest of consumers) don't care about the long term. This can be proven by the idiots charging up credit cards that they cannot afford, buying houses with ARMs, and buying big ass SUVs with low mileage. Stop blaming the free market for giving you what you want. Also, why should businesses plan for the long term, when the government can step in and bail their asses out for the bad, short sighted, and incredibly stupid decisions they make.
Now let's get real, just like you didn't change my opinion, I'm not changing yours, but let's not blame businesses for the decisions that PEOPLE make. Because businesses are just made up entities built to take the blame of the people that run them.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.
It's so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
when there's Science to do.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
You're right, any research paid for by someone who stands to profit should be ignored. So don't take any medical drugs, don't use hybrid engines, and don't trust the government (who stands to profit immensely from global warming scaremongering).
Wow, where are my mod points. This was the most intelligent response I have ever read on Slashdot. I bow to your wisdom sir.
Actually, to be a little pedantic, climate cycles in the past are not "thousands of years". That's stupid human race time scale interfering. According to historical climate data, the "natural" cycle of ice ages is on the order of 100,000 years. So if we do your same 2 orders of magnitude differential, we are only down to 1000 years until our doom comes from global warming. What was the earth like in 1009? Did we even have reliable records?
[citation needed] oh, and bonus points if it's from experimental data and not a forecasting computer model.
Why waste the mod points? He's an AC and he's at 0, if you don't like reading shit, raise your threshold.
It's my turn with the sex box!
But what about all that helium? Won't that cause global warming or cooling or some other disastrous consequence for humanity?
Too bad standard education doesn't teach kids squat. High school graduates these days have spent most of their young lives wasting away behind a desk. There is nothing wrong with some people doing a menial, physical labor, low-paying job. Not everyone has to be educated in a society. Right now we have to import other workers from mexico, china, and the rest of the world to do the jobs that americans are too educated (or rather too low paying) to take. For some reason, our labor force has it in their head that even with just a basic education, they should make $50,000 or more each year to do something that people in other countries will willing do for a few thousand. THAT is why we cannot compete with other countries.
Plus maybe if we got rid of some things (like welfare) maybe there wouldn't be so much government encouragement to stay poor, and people would willingly pay for an education to get better jobs.