"The fact is if you look at the Teaparty has lots of intelligent educated members"
Where's the "-1 Hilariously Misinformed" when you need it?
The fact that your signature indicates a desire to repeal a pretty crucial constitutional amendment, and that you spout support for a troupe of batshit crazy republicans in disguise, leads me to believe I shouldn't listen to anything you have to say.
Perhaps we should start with some of our enormous conventional bombs before going nuclear?
If all that's needed is an intense explosion to collapse the surrounding seafloor I see no reason something like a MOAB with no radiological repercussions couldn't work. Hell, anything's better than a 4" tube trying to suck it all up as it comes out.
Why haven't we tried getting some of the enormous dredges used in the middle east at the moment to build private islands for the rich? We could have them suck up a boatload of silt from somewhere like the Mississippi delta and dump it in a concise pile on top of the spill. We could feasibly do this repeatedly until an island forms over the riser. If that's not enough to stop the oil, I don't know that anything would be.
This guy is not only a moron for thinking this qualifies as infecting a human, but he's an assh*le for pushing the scientific community toward accepting something so trivial and, dare I say, fake as real science.
I hope the implant process hurt. Like *really* hurt. Also, I hope the virus code makes the chip heat up so it burns him from the inside. Slowly.
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Not much to give up on, they canceled it, and there's only one left in the season.
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The show was plenty entertaining, and the plot at times interesting, but using the "Everyone's Dead" ending is a very very immature and feeble way to 'wrap things up' if you can even call it that. It is NEVER ok to use this ending, despite what M Night Shyamalan thinks. It's a total cop-out and makes people not watch your shit anymore. Why do I refuse to see the new Star Trek, despite loving all things Star Trek? Because I don't want to see how JJ Abrams fucked up the canon.
It's like they stuck two more episodes in for the finale and were like "Oh, we forgot we have to make this the last one..." so they tagged half an hour of more flashbacks(from the island to their weird alternate death verse) to try and guide you back to terra firma. It didn't work. I still have no idea what the fuck I just watched, and I wish I could say, like you, I only watched two seasons. At least then I'd still have the suspense of "It might go somewhere".
Just curious......where does one obtain a Masters degree in Electronic Warfare? Can it be obtained with, say, a BS in Computer Science as a foundation?
Anyone who plays EVE knows how ineffectual the CSM is and how irrelevant their existence is to most normal players. If you get super into storyline missions or want to do events, it may make a difference, but for a PVP player or someone who just plays for the sake of playing it does not. I've been playing for 5+ years now and I have never benefited or lost something because of the CSM.
In terms of relationships with their players, CCP does a much better job through their Fanfest conventions. They easily put similar relational events to shame. Their constant expansions and upgrades to their systems are a top-notch way to keep players involved and bring in new players. The game isn't as mindless and grinding in some aspects as games like WoW or EQ2, and in some ways it is even more so(mining, ugh).
Facebook is a black hole of time and productivity. These shitty online games they push, and now want to CHARGE for, may just be the singularity that sucks in and traps those who wander the intertubes aimlessly.
The threat of what would happen in retaliation should anyone actually launch against the US is enough of a drawback that I'm sure we'll never even see it used.
The fact that you, like Jobs, think that the unemployment rate is due to "People getting run over because they couldn't keep up", you are one of many who are a burden and a problem to this country.
Please gain some common sense. Please talk to some unemployed people and figure out that it's heavily due to overwhelming overseas export of US jobs by companies like...oh wait APPLE that are causing a significant portion of the unemployment.
The fact that our entire country is struggling financially, whether or not you are, is a good sign that it's not because they're stupid or 'behind the times' that people are getting laid off.
Maybe I'm just a better driver than you, but I don't ride on the safe gleaming roads of Apple, nor do punks beat up my car when I go to the bad side of town. I haven't seen a brick wall in well over a year, even in a model commonly thought to attract brick walls. I taught myself how to use the car's security system and I know how to park it in a safe spot, even in the seedy areas. If that fails, I know enough about my car to completely overhaul it should anything truly disastrous happen to it in the red light district. Just to avoid problems, I do this once every 3-6 months anyway, whether or not something bad happened.
I was so interested in these cars and their various roads that I went to school and learned how they work. i learned all about how you can make little gadgets to go on your dashboard, and how you can get better gas mileage out of your car. Eventually, I learned all about how the engine works and how to rebuild it, or even build it from scratch. It was funny though, all the time I was practicing building these engines and components for my car, I couldn't build one that would work on Apple's shiny road.
See, I had to buy an apple car which would only work on their shiny roads to even be ABLE to put a new stereo in any of their cars. Even if the car wasn't mine. On top of that, it cost me subscription fees for the car building tools, and I had to build them using uncommon foreign tools which were nothing like standard cars and took much longer to do the same task. Even once I had built a new stereo for their cars, they could choose not to let me install it for any reason they wanted. Without even giving a reason. It was their road, and they had complete control.
On top of that, despite the fact that the CEO thought that EVERYONE wanted one of their cars, most really didn't, and very few people even drove them. There were TONS of people using their mopeds and segways, but they could only ride on the shiny sidewalk at a lower speed limit, and were still limited by the company's rules for their roads.
Now what if I wanted to help a friend with one of these change their tires? Forget it, I had to send it back to the dealership at my expense, and wasn't guaranteed anything of a repair unless I had previously paid them a large 'Just in case' fee. Top it all off with their car costing $1000 more than mine for no apparent reason other than their name on the side, and the choice was very clear.
Enough metaphors. If you don't know how to use a computer, Apple is for you. If you know how, you don't need the crap that they're trying to sell you. Eventually Apple's stupid customers will run out of money for the overpriced shiny crap, and they will go under and once again(like not too far in the past) they will be left whining about monopolies and begging Microsoft for more money.You have fun jumping through your hoops to watch porn - I'll just click the link.
Hey, I think I saw this SyFy original movie already. Doesn't it end with some part of our continent sinking or breaking off? Or is this the one with the prehistoric lizards which were hiding in the cave by the oil well, and the nuke only sets them free to cause more havoc? Was this the asteroid one?
I agree. I think "Ooh, shiny!" sums up a lot of the trouble America faces on a regular basis. It's like the country has evolved into a perpetual everyone-has-ADD state. Television, radio, and the interweb all promote this with their little 5-second-news clips, on-demand programming, or popup flash games. Instant gratification and a short attention span, while completely ignoring news and happenings that aren't 'entertaining', does not help us preserve our country and liberties at all.
If wars could be reduced to a quick-button event in a flashy video game, we'd so rule the world. Ender's Game anyone?
I think the problem is that the people who are NOT programmers, or those who have no legitimate reason to be surfing the web whatsoever, are abusing the 'tools' of Facebook, Twitter, and social news sites. You don't need to check them every 5 minutes. You aren't somehow less cool if you don't know everything that happened since the last time you were online. I wish people would realize that.
Even as a programmer, there is one kid who was in my class who is all but obsessed with Facebook. Even during a crucial lecture on some higher math concepts, he would just sit there and talk on Facebook the whole damn time, and then whine to the rest of us that he didn't get what was going on when we actually had to apply the material to a program. Subsequently, he failed that class 3 times, and still doesn't pay attention.
This is not indicative that computers promote distraction, or that gadgets can't be used in a responsible manner. In an environment where every person has a high-end computer and internet, only a select few will be so distracted that they cannot function. Many people have the ability to regulate what they spend their time on. It's unfair to say the gadgets are causing the problem when it's clearly misuse of the tech by a few people that leads people to think this way.
If one of the two is sync'd to the atomic clock or cell network clock, even the man with two knows the time.
I would think he was directing this mostly toward time-wastes like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Things which have excellent communication potential, but are 99% entertainment and *maybe* 1% productivity. If there are serious business meetings happening on Facebook or important memos sent by twitter, I'm just not seeing it. What I AM seeing is @cuteanimals: OMG! My kitty rolled over and said nom nom nom!
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"sweet and sour crude"
Hell yes! Bust out the egg rolls people, it looks like the gulf just became a whole lot sweeter!
"The fact is if you look at the Teaparty has lots of intelligent educated members"
Where's the "-1 Hilariously Misinformed" when you need it?
The fact that your signature indicates a desire to repeal a pretty crucial constitutional amendment, and that you spout support for a troupe of batshit crazy republicans in disguise, leads me to believe I shouldn't listen to anything you have to say.
Perhaps we should start with some of our enormous conventional bombs before going nuclear?
If all that's needed is an intense explosion to collapse the surrounding seafloor I see no reason something like a MOAB with no radiological repercussions couldn't work. Hell, anything's better than a 4" tube trying to suck it all up as it comes out.
Why haven't we tried getting some of the enormous dredges used in the middle east at the moment to build private islands for the rich? We could have them suck up a boatload of silt from somewhere like the Mississippi delta and dump it in a concise pile on top of the spill. We could feasibly do this repeatedly until an island forms over the riser. If that's not enough to stop the oil, I don't know that anything would be.
Bill Gates was quoted as saying "Muhahaha! How the tables have turned!"
I'm ok with this as long as Michael Bay and George Lucas have nothing to do with it.
This guy is not only a moron for thinking this qualifies as infecting a human, but he's an assh*le for pushing the scientific community toward accepting something so trivial and, dare I say, fake as real science.
I hope the implant process hurt. Like *really* hurt. Also, I hope the virus code makes the chip heat up so it burns him from the inside. Slowly.
Not much to give up on, they canceled it, and there's only one left in the season.
The show was plenty entertaining, and the plot at times interesting, but using the "Everyone's Dead" ending is a very very immature and feeble way to 'wrap things up' if you can even call it that. It is NEVER ok to use this ending, despite what M Night Shyamalan thinks. It's a total cop-out and makes people not watch your shit anymore. Why do I refuse to see the new Star Trek, despite loving all things Star Trek? Because I don't want to see how JJ Abrams fucked up the canon.
It's like they stuck two more episodes in for the finale and were like "Oh, we forgot we have to make this the last one..." so they tagged half an hour of more flashbacks(from the island to their weird alternate death verse) to try and guide you back to terra firma. It didn't work. I still have no idea what the fuck I just watched, and I wish I could say, like you, I only watched two seasons. At least then I'd still have the suspense of "It might go somewhere".
Just curious... ...where does one obtain a Masters degree in Electronic Warfare? Can it be obtained with, say, a BS in Computer Science as a foundation?
When "progress" became the label you give to moving backward a couple decades in social evolution.
Anyone who plays EVE knows how ineffectual the CSM is and how irrelevant their existence is to most normal players. If you get super into storyline missions or want to do events, it may make a difference, but for a PVP player or someone who just plays for the sake of playing it does not. I've been playing for 5+ years now and I have never benefited or lost something because of the CSM.
In terms of relationships with their players, CCP does a much better job through their Fanfest conventions. They easily put similar relational events to shame. Their constant expansions and upgrades to their systems are a top-notch way to keep players involved and bring in new players. The game isn't as mindless and grinding in some aspects as games like WoW or EQ2, and in some ways it is even more so(mining, ugh).
"Harden The Fuck Up" -CCP Games
Facebook is a black hole of time and productivity. These shitty online games they push, and now want to CHARGE for, may just be the singularity that sucks in and traps those who wander the intertubes aimlessly.
The threat of what would happen in retaliation should anyone actually launch against the US is enough of a drawback that I'm sure we'll never even see it used.
Facebook is evil in and of itself.
This sounds like SkyNet's fledgling ancestor.
The fact that you, like Jobs, think that the unemployment rate is due to "People getting run over because they couldn't keep up", you are one of many who are a burden and a problem to this country.
Please gain some common sense. Please talk to some unemployed people and figure out that it's heavily due to overwhelming overseas export of US jobs by companies like ...oh wait APPLE that are causing a significant portion of the unemployment.
The fact that our entire country is struggling financially, whether or not you are, is a good sign that it's not because they're stupid or 'behind the times' that people are getting laid off.
"Then everyone goes back to Cupertino and rolls."
I knew they were on SOMETHING. I guess ecstasy makes sense.
"He then woke up in the morning with a stolen iPhone prototype in his pocket, and a dead hooker in his bed"
Damn, don't you hate when that happens?
I can blame them.
Maybe I'm just a better driver than you, but I don't ride on the safe gleaming roads of Apple, nor do punks beat up my car when I go to the bad side of town. I haven't seen a brick wall in well over a year, even in a model commonly thought to attract brick walls. I taught myself how to use the car's security system and I know how to park it in a safe spot, even in the seedy areas. If that fails, I know enough about my car to completely overhaul it should anything truly disastrous happen to it in the red light district. Just to avoid problems, I do this once every 3-6 months anyway, whether or not something bad happened.
I was so interested in these cars and their various roads that I went to school and learned how they work. i learned all about how you can make little gadgets to go on your dashboard, and how you can get better gas mileage out of your car. Eventually, I learned all about how the engine works and how to rebuild it, or even build it from scratch. It was funny though, all the time I was practicing building these engines and components for my car, I couldn't build one that would work on Apple's shiny road.
See, I had to buy an apple car which would only work on their shiny roads to even be ABLE to put a new stereo in any of their cars. Even if the car wasn't mine. On top of that, it cost me subscription fees for the car building tools, and I had to build them using uncommon foreign tools which were nothing like standard cars and took much longer to do the same task. Even once I had built a new stereo for their cars, they could choose not to let me install it for any reason they wanted. Without even giving a reason. It was their road, and they had complete control.
On top of that, despite the fact that the CEO thought that EVERYONE wanted one of their cars, most really didn't, and very few people even drove them. There were TONS of people using their mopeds and segways, but they could only ride on the shiny sidewalk at a lower speed limit, and were still limited by the company's rules for their roads.
Now what if I wanted to help a friend with one of these change their tires? Forget it, I had to send it back to the dealership at my expense, and wasn't guaranteed anything of a repair unless I had previously paid them a large 'Just in case' fee. Top it all off with their car costing $1000 more than mine for no apparent reason other than their name on the side, and the choice was very clear.
Enough metaphors. If you don't know how to use a computer, Apple is for you. If you know how, you don't need the crap that they're trying to sell you. Eventually Apple's stupid customers will run out of money for the overpriced shiny crap, and they will go under and once again(like not too far in the past) they will be left whining about monopolies and begging Microsoft for more money.You have fun jumping through your hoops to watch porn - I'll just click the link.
Hey, I think I saw this SyFy original movie already. Doesn't it end with some part of our continent sinking or breaking off? Or is this the one with the prehistoric lizards which were hiding in the cave by the oil well, and the nuke only sets them free to cause more havoc? Was this the asteroid one?
Shit, I can never keep these straight.
...but you CAN see this.
WAAAOOOW!
Oh myyyyyy......
I agree. I think "Ooh, shiny!" sums up a lot of the trouble America faces on a regular basis. It's like the country has evolved into a perpetual everyone-has-ADD state. Television, radio, and the interweb all promote this with their little 5-second-news clips, on-demand programming, or popup flash games. Instant gratification and a short attention span, while completely ignoring news and happenings that aren't 'entertaining', does not help us preserve our country and liberties at all.
If wars could be reduced to a quick-button event in a flashy video game, we'd so rule the world. Ender's Game anyone?
I think the problem is that the people who are NOT programmers, or those who have no legitimate reason to be surfing the web whatsoever, are abusing the 'tools' of Facebook, Twitter, and social news sites. You don't need to check them every 5 minutes. You aren't somehow less cool if you don't know everything that happened since the last time you were online. I wish people would realize that.
Even as a programmer, there is one kid who was in my class who is all but obsessed with Facebook. Even during a crucial lecture on some higher math concepts, he would just sit there and talk on Facebook the whole damn time, and then whine to the rest of us that he didn't get what was going on when we actually had to apply the material to a program. Subsequently, he failed that class 3 times, and still doesn't pay attention.
This is not indicative that computers promote distraction, or that gadgets can't be used in a responsible manner. In an environment where every person has a high-end computer and internet, only a select few will be so distracted that they cannot function. Many people have the ability to regulate what they spend their time on. It's unfair to say the gadgets are causing the problem when it's clearly misuse of the tech by a few people that leads people to think this way.
If one of the two is sync'd to the atomic clock or cell network clock, even the man with two knows the time.
I would think he was directing this mostly toward time-wastes like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Things which have excellent communication potential, but are 99% entertainment and *maybe* 1% productivity. If there are serious business meetings happening on Facebook or important memos sent by twitter, I'm just not seeing it. What I AM seeing is @cuteanimals: OMG! My kitty rolled over and said nom nom nom!
Welcome to the age of Idiocracy.
Well it's a good thing all of us pilots know how to fly planes without RNAV and GPS approaches. Right? You did pay attention in IFR training, right?
When I saw "Epileptic Orbit" all I could think was Seizures in Circles...