I must say that your statements are pure BS. Fighting in MMA causes just as much if not more brain injury, as (pure) boxing. Right now, almost every veteran MMA fighter suffers from symptoms of brain injury. Here's a partial list: Jens Pulver Gabriel Gonzaga Mirko Filipovic Frank Trigg Chuck Liddell Mark Munoz Antonio Silva Wanderlei Silva Alistair Overeem Phil Baroni Gary Goodridge Andrei Arlovski Josh Koscheck Cheick Kongo
and the list goes on. And it doesn't even include the journeymen that get punched in the head for a $300 payout on regional circuits, as a matter of fact for their whole careers.
Funny you should say this: on my way to Kobe I met a lovely couple, that told me with much passion about the nice places I should visit in the city. They also told me about the great views around the hotel (not in Kobe but in the countryside near the sea) where I would stay later on. They seemed so strangely enthusiastic and vivacious, very non-Japanese-like. At the end, the gentleman revealed that they are Korean who comes to visit often to Kobe, Osaka and sometimes Tokyo.
I doubt very much they would love Japan so much had the people there been assholish towards them.
Question: are you Korean, or are you just making assumptions about Japan?
If you watch the original with the understanding that Deckard is a replicant then the unicorn origami and the ending have specific, complex, implications.
Now if the sequel shows Deckard as a human then they piss off everyone who prefers those implications. So, in effect, the sequel ruins the story for some people.
If the sequel shows Deckard as an aged replicant... robots get old?
But replicants aren't robots - they are made from the same exact biochemical structures as humans. In effect, there is not much to distinguish them from humans, from a biochemical POV, and hence, if their timespan isn't artificially limited, they can live longer than 4 years and then age, as they are made of cells in which the same processes take place as in humans.
I think Deckard from Blade Runner (unlike the one from PK Dick's story) is a replicant, but I see no reason why replicants couldn't age. The technology necessary for making replicants is, essentially, biochemistry. Highly advanced biochemistry. Now if they are able to make replicants that don't age, wouldn't they use the same or ancillary biotechnologies to help "normal" humans not age? Clearly, "normal humans" do age, so the problem of aging has not been solved in the Blade Runner universe.
A gassy Harrison Ford would probably elevate that sequel, rather than damage it. It would cross genres into comedy, but eh, that's not the worst that could happen.
For me, Blade Runner is an awesome cinematic and intellectual experience, and I did read the "short" story by PK Dick, and loved that also in slightly different ways.
The original Blade Runner was made in a decade when this kind of intellectualism in cinema was still going strong. After the 90s, it all but disappeared. There is NO WAY they can make a decent sequen of an 80s intellectual sci-fi movie today. Maybe they never could have.
Thanks for the answer, and I agree with the "perfect is the enemy of the good"-philosophy, but the grey right-hand strip bug seemed to affect basically every Chrome user (I wasn't even one to complain, just reading the comments from fellow Chrome users).
For what it's worth, I wasn't affected by the bug the OP was mentioning.
Genuine question (no flamebait): what procedures does does Dice follow to do software testing before release? There has been an interesting amount of bugs introduced lately, in the Slashdot interface, like the huge gray strip on the right appearing on Chrome. This bug has been now fixed, so props for that, but it took weeks. Shouldn't it have been caught during the testing phase, before releasing the changes into the live system?
Why not use the same logic with guns? If a person who asks for a gun license and enters 'armed robbery' as reason for obtaing one, just refuse it. Presto, no crime anymore.
Why, that's exactly how the US visa application reads like. There is a series of questions in the form, asking whether you are a terrorist, whether you plan on a terrorist attack on the US soil, etc.
Sorry to interject, but it should be noted that morphine and heroin are quite different when it comes to addictiveness. I am not supporting nor denying the OPs claim that people get "hooked" after a couple of tries with heroin (as far as I know, that's not true for most people), but your reply is non-sequitur.
I perfunctorily looked at TFA, and it doesn't mention height at all. This is ridiculous, and any man with even the most basic experience with online dating knows that height is perhaps the most important number in your online profile. The higher that number is, the more likely one is to receive invitations from women. I actually made an experiment, once, where I created to fake profiles that were almost identical, except for height, and the profile that had a height 10 cm larger than the other, got about 40 TIMES more contact requests (175 cm vs. 190 cm).
And the official osm app doesn't do offline routing.
Just use OSMAnd (the Android Open Street Maps app), which has a GREAT offline routing feature. PLUS it uses ector and not bitmap maps (Google Maps data is transferred as bitmap) so you can set the street font size to what you prefer. This is NOT possible with Google Maps, and likely it never will be. Just read the Google Discussion threads about inaccessibility of Google Maps for visually impaired people.
nim, like python, requires strict indentation. That's not comfortable for some people. I, for one, have nystagmus and find it practically impossible to code in python. I suspect I'd have the same issues with nim.
You mean, Georgia, Ukraine and (brewing) Moldova? With functional takeover of a number of ex-USSR countries as well (Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova differ only by daring to stand up to Russia)? And aiding bloody coups elsewhere?
Moldova got already invaded - Putin took Transnistria already. In fact, that was his first invasion.
While somewhat simplistic, I think the GP post did have some merit. And you confirm it, albeit very indirectly when you mention the ease with which social sciences are malleable to whichever political agenda requires their services. This is all caused by the fact that social sciences don't produce falsifiable results: there are no hypotheses, let alone theories, in social sciences, that are falsifiable.
That is their greatest weakness, the very reason why they shouldn't be called "science". There is no bias in this statement, even IF those who dedicated their lives to social sciences feel offended by it.
running a Big Boy's OS. You know, a device that gives its user a lot of freedom and power. A phone that could be connected to a keyboard and monitor to do the same or similar things my 6 year old desktop can do. These specs are not a good match for that vision. I can live with the poor resolution, the mid-range camera and the relatively small screen size (though I'm definitely a fan of phablets). The slow CPU and limited amount of RAM are killers, though, and not in the good sense of the word.
By the by, do you know what the primary advantage of a railgun is? No, it's not super-high muzzle velocity. it's elimination of the powder charge. Since the powder charge for a modern (defined as post-WW1) artillery piece is larger than the projectile, that more than doubles (more than triples for most artillery) your ammo capacity. And that's not even counting the space taken up by the fire-suppression system and armor protecting the powder magazines.
Your post deserves to be modded up to infinity, because THIS is the fucking point.
It obviously won't really be Star Wars; it won't be the story Lucas wants to tell, and will instead be some sort of mass Hollywood shoveled shit designed to appeal to the modal average and draw in dollars.
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Which is exactly what all Star Wars episodes were.
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I must say that your statements are pure BS. Fighting in MMA causes just as much if not more brain injury, as (pure) boxing.
Right now, almost every veteran MMA fighter suffers from symptoms of brain injury. Here's a partial list:
Jens Pulver
Gabriel Gonzaga
Mirko Filipovic
Frank Trigg
Chuck Liddell
Mark Munoz
Antonio Silva
Wanderlei Silva
Alistair Overeem
Phil Baroni
Gary Goodridge
Andrei Arlovski
Josh Koscheck
Cheick Kongo
and the list goes on. And it doesn't even include the journeymen that get punched in the head for a $300 payout on regional circuits, as a matter of fact for their whole careers.
There are indications that concussions lead to much the same changes in the brain, as does Alzheimer's (including all the related symptoms).
If you were a Korean you wouldn't feel that way.
Funny you should say this: on my way to Kobe I met a lovely couple, that told me with much passion about the nice places I should visit in the city. They also told me about the great views around the hotel (not in Kobe but in the countryside near the sea) where I would stay later on. They seemed so strangely enthusiastic and vivacious, very non-Japanese-like. At the end, the gentleman revealed that they are Korean who comes to visit often to Kobe, Osaka and sometimes Tokyo.
I doubt very much they would love Japan so much had the people there been assholish towards them.
Question: are you Korean, or are you just making assumptions about Japan?
And all national stereotypes aside, I'm pretty sure that no country on this earth has a monopoly on, or shortage of, raging assholes.
Not sure this is 100% true: when I visited Japan, I felt there was a peculiar "shortage" of raging assholes. And I'm a Finn.
If you watch the original with the understanding that Deckard is a replicant then the unicorn origami and the ending have specific, complex, implications.
Now if the sequel shows Deckard as a human then they piss off everyone who prefers those implications. So, in effect, the sequel ruins the story for some people.
If the sequel shows Deckard as an aged replicant ... robots get old?
But replicants aren't robots - they are made from the same exact biochemical structures as humans. In effect, there is not much to distinguish them from humans, from a biochemical POV, and hence, if their timespan isn't artificially limited, they can live longer than 4 years and then age, as they are made of cells in which the same processes take place as in humans.
I think Deckard from Blade Runner (unlike the one from PK Dick's story) is a replicant, but I see no reason why replicants couldn't age. The technology necessary for making replicants is, essentially, biochemistry. Highly advanced biochemistry. Now if they are able to make replicants that don't age, wouldn't they use the same or ancillary biotechnologies to help "normal" humans not age? Clearly, "normal humans" do age, so the problem of aging has not been solved in the Blade Runner universe.
A gassy Harrison Ford would probably elevate that sequel, rather than damage it. It would cross genres into comedy, but eh, that's not the worst that could happen.
All you need to know about Highlander 2.
Prometheus would have been an OK movie, if it didn't have plotholes the size of which lets a squadron of B-52s enter and leave.
For me, Blade Runner is an awesome cinematic and intellectual experience, and I did read the "short" story by PK Dick, and loved that also in slightly different ways.
The original Blade Runner was made in a decade when this kind of intellectualism in cinema was still going strong. After the 90s, it all but disappeared. There is NO WAY they can make a decent sequen of an 80s intellectual sci-fi movie today. Maybe they never could have.
Thanks for the answer, and I agree with the "perfect is the enemy of the good"-philosophy, but the grey right-hand strip bug seemed to affect basically every Chrome user (I wasn't even one to complain, just reading the comments from fellow Chrome users).
For what it's worth, I wasn't affected by the bug the OP was mentioning.
Genuine question (no flamebait): what procedures does does Dice follow to do software testing before release? There has been an interesting amount of bugs introduced lately, in the Slashdot interface, like the huge gray strip on the right appearing on Chrome. This bug has been now fixed, so props for that, but it took weeks. Shouldn't it have been caught during the testing phase, before releasing the changes into the live system?
Why not use the same logic with guns?
If a person who asks for a gun license and enters 'armed robbery' as reason for obtaing one, just refuse it.
Presto, no crime anymore.
Why, that's exactly how the US visa application reads like. There is a series of questions in the form, asking whether you are a terrorist, whether you plan on a terrorist attack on the US soil, etc.
Sorry to interject, but it should be noted that morphine and heroin are quite different when it comes to addictiveness. I am not supporting nor denying the OPs claim that people get "hooked" after a couple of tries with heroin (as far as I know, that's not true for most people), but your reply is non-sequitur.
It was a honest typo :) But it made me laugh when I realized it (thanks to you pointing it out).
I perfunctorily looked at TFA, and it doesn't mention height at all. This is ridiculous, and any man with even the most basic experience with online dating knows that height is perhaps the most important number in your online profile. The higher that number is, the more likely one is to receive invitations from women. I actually made an experiment, once, where I created to fake profiles that were almost identical, except for height, and the profile that had a height 10 cm larger than the other, got about 40 TIMES more contact requests (175 cm vs. 190 cm).
And the official osm app doesn't do offline routing.
Just use OSMAnd (the Android Open Street Maps app), which has a GREAT offline routing feature. PLUS it uses ector and not bitmap maps (Google Maps data is transferred as bitmap) so you can set the street font size to what you prefer. This is NOT possible with Google Maps, and likely it never will be. Just read the Google Discussion threads about inaccessibility of Google Maps for visually impaired people.
nim, like python, requires strict indentation. That's not comfortable for some people. I, for one, have nystagmus and find it practically impossible to code in python. I suspect I'd have the same issues with nim.
oh, so Putin invaded three countries
You mean, Georgia, Ukraine and (brewing) Moldova? With functional takeover of a number of ex-USSR countries as well (Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova differ only by daring to stand up to Russia)? And aiding bloody coups elsewhere?
Moldova got already invaded - Putin took Transnistria already. In fact, that was his first invasion.
While somewhat simplistic, I think the GP post did have some merit. And you confirm it, albeit very indirectly when you mention the ease with which social sciences are malleable to whichever political agenda requires their services. This is all caused by the fact that social sciences don't produce falsifiable results: there are no hypotheses, let alone theories, in social sciences, that are falsifiable.
That is their greatest weakness, the very reason why they shouldn't be called "science". There is no bias in this statement, even IF those who dedicated their lives to social sciences feel offended by it.
running a Big Boy's OS. You know, a device that gives its user a lot of freedom and power. A phone that could be connected to a keyboard and monitor to do the same or similar things my 6 year old desktop can do.
These specs are not a good match for that vision. I can live with the poor resolution, the mid-range camera and the relatively small screen size (though I'm definitely a fan of phablets). The slow CPU and limited amount of RAM are killers, though, and not in the good sense of the word.
By the by, do you know what the primary advantage of a railgun is? No, it's not super-high muzzle velocity. it's elimination of the powder charge. Since the powder charge for a modern (defined as post-WW1) artillery piece is larger than the projectile, that more than doubles (more than triples for most artillery) your ammo capacity. And that's not even counting the space taken up by the fire-suppression system and armor protecting the powder magazines.
Your post deserves to be modded up to infinity, because THIS is the fucking point.
When I started using Google's 2-factor authentication, I admit, it was tedious, but it pays dividends in peace of mind, and how!
I think you subsidized the bonus payouts to the telco executives...
Don't worry I'm sure the benefits will trickle down through the economy
LOL
Maybe a few more hookers got coke snorted off their butts, as a result.
It obviously won't really be Star Wars; it won't be the story Lucas wants to tell, and will instead be some sort of mass Hollywood shoveled shit designed to appeal to the modal average and draw in dollars.
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Which is exactly what all Star Wars episodes were.