Why not just put knockout gas in the cabin air supply? As long as it's generally non-harmful, it doesn't matter if a few passengers or even cabin crew pass out. The copilot can then use a gas mask and zip-cuff the hijacker into immobility before they wake up.
Yeah, said principle seems to be an ass-pull to me. I'd have expected the universe to be evenly self-similar on a large enough scale, but not perfectly even and homogeneous.
[Disclaimer - it's been months since I last played GW2 as anything but "log on, run around, look at the new pretty things, and log back off."]
The biggest problem with WvW is that players don't like being outnumbered and don't like being on the losing team. This results in players hopping between different PvP areas until they find one where their side has flooded the place, and sticking around there. This effectively adds a massive slippery slope mechanic to the PvP and guarantees that you will either be in a huge zerg with few-to-no opponents around, or you will be one of a scant handful being roflstomped by a flood of enemy players.
The small group PvP arenas are pretty good. My biggest criticism (which may well have been fixed by now) is that there didn't seem to be any concept of a global queue, and so you have to quit out of your game periodically as players dropped out, and try and get in a more populated game.
I hate questions like that. The less able kids think it's obvious while I'm left confused by the fact that the question is wrong, either having a bunch of equally valid answers, or none at all.
If you want to look at it that way, mass and our own short lifespans are our worst enemies.
With less mass we could move faster. With longer lifespans, speed would be less important.
It's only when we are so constrained by mass and time, and other things like need for oxygen and food, that area of land matters at all. There's an amazing amount of universe out there just waiting for us to get our act together.
So why are they banging on about theoretically reaching "Q10" (which basically means 90% efficiency, if I read it right)? Even a reactor capable of Q1.1 would be usable, Q2 would be phenomenal. I can't shake the feeling that they're deliberately pushing their goal further into the future so that it's harder to measure their progress towards it...
You mean it will be suppressed and classified in 1996 and will only be released to the public in 2013, two years after passive shielding is developed and the first soldiers are equipped with active scanners to pinpoint "through-the-wall kinect" sensors from 200m away?
If that cool horse the Greeks gave you destroys your town instead of just sitting there looking pretty then it's not working, it's sabotage. Definitely not a Trojan horse.
Interestingly, this logic does work if you're on a motorbike. The cars around you can brake as hard as you, and corner as hard as you, and can do both more suddenly due to their geometry. The only thing you've got on them is acceleration, and often, dropping a couple of gears and gunning it is the correct way to get out of trouble.
What if a radio DJ makes a shocking announcement and he knows or has special reason to know someone may be listing while driving?
God damn songs with car horns or screeching tyres or police sirens in them. Yes, you can figure out that it's in the music and not in your environment but it's distracting enough for a second or two that it could contribute to an accident.
They probably actually think that the tracking of ads, at least, is good for us. "Hey if they disable browser tracking, the full page click through ads that they see are going to be totally irrelevant! That would really suck for them."
Fair enough. I don't know much about the internal structure of the pay-TV industry so I'm happy for you to substitute in the appropriate agency where I've said "the cable TV industry".:)
I wonder if the same also applied to CDs back before services like iTunes? Was it actually the bands (and not the production companies) forcing their other 7 or 8 tracks of self-indulgent crap on us as their price for letting us hear their one good song?
If there were a Netflix-style online streaming/viewing service that offered legitimate downloads, full HD, no ads, allowing you to sign up for individual cable TV channels, that was actually available outside the U.S.... hell, I'd buy it.
The problem as I see it is that the cable TV industry is still working on the same premise that the recording industry was working on 20 years ago. Take a couple of hits, bundle a whole lot of useless crap in with it, then make people pay for the crap they don't want in order to get to the good stuff. I don't think they quite understand how much bigger the market has become in those 20 years. They can afford to drop the sale price by 50-80%, cut out the bundling, cut out the advertising. If that will get them a significant market share, the sheer volume will make up for it.
People are quite willing to pay for services such as television, but given the absence of legal means to do so, they will turn to illegal means.
I think people are missing the point a little when they say "see, people pay for this show." These people pay for their cable TV subscription once a month but then the individual shows are "free", just like (from my point of view) I pay my internet subscription and after that anything I download is "free." There is no incremental cost of watching a show once you have your subscription.
For me, at least, it's more about effort factor. If you already have a cable subscription then it's more effort to torrent it, and so you watch it on cable. If you don't have a cable subscription then it's more effort to buy the box set than it is to just download it. Services like Netflix allow legitimate downloads for a fee, much like on-demand cable, and as such are the best of all worlds.
Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.
Oh well, it probably wouldn't have the show I want anyway. Back to ze torrents.
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When it comes down to it, they're basically just a seller of novelty gadgets and boys toys with a geek-oriented marketing angle.
You want MORE?
Boojum!
Why not just put knockout gas in the cabin air supply? As long as it's generally non-harmful, it doesn't matter if a few passengers or even cabin crew pass out. The copilot can then use a gas mask and zip-cuff the hijacker into immobility before they wake up.
Yeah, said principle seems to be an ass-pull to me. I'd have expected the universe to be evenly self-similar on a large enough scale, but not perfectly even and homogeneous.
You have to drink a metric fuckton before you start getting into that territory though.
Unfortunately, high doses can cause coma. And, it is illegal.
Sounds like alcohol in the '20s.
[Disclaimer - it's been months since I last played GW2 as anything but "log on, run around, look at the new pretty things, and log back off."]
The biggest problem with WvW is that players don't like being outnumbered and don't like being on the losing team. This results in players hopping between different PvP areas until they find one where their side has flooded the place, and sticking around there. This effectively adds a massive slippery slope mechanic to the PvP and guarantees that you will either be in a huge zerg with few-to-no opponents around, or you will be one of a scant handful being roflstomped by a flood of enemy players.
The small group PvP arenas are pretty good. My biggest criticism (which may well have been fixed by now) is that there didn't seem to be any concept of a global queue, and so you have to quit out of your game periodically as players dropped out, and try and get in a more populated game.
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I hate questions like that. The less able kids think it's obvious while I'm left confused by the fact that the question is wrong, either having a bunch of equally valid answers, or none at all.
Holy shit, to answer this math test's questions you need access to Wikipedia?
If you want to look at it that way, mass and our own short lifespans are our worst enemies.
With less mass we could move faster. With longer lifespans, speed would be less important.
It's only when we are so constrained by mass and time, and other things like need for oxygen and food, that area of land matters at all. There's an amazing amount of universe out there just waiting for us to get our act together.
The term used was "grave robbing", that kinda suggests legality isn't an issue.
So why are they banging on about theoretically reaching "Q10" (which basically means 90% efficiency, if I read it right)? Even a reactor capable of Q1.1 would be usable, Q2 would be phenomenal. I can't shake the feeling that they're deliberately pushing their goal further into the future so that it's harder to measure their progress towards it...
You mean it will be suppressed and classified in 1996 and will only be released to the public in 2013, two years after passive shielding is developed and the first soldiers are equipped with active scanners to pinpoint "through-the-wall kinect" sensors from 200m away?
If that cool horse the Greeks gave you destroys your town instead of just sitting there looking pretty then it's not working, it's sabotage. Definitely not a Trojan horse.
Then the "child porn" has done its job nicely.
Interestingly, this logic does work if you're on a motorbike. The cars around you can brake as hard as you, and corner as hard as you, and can do both more suddenly due to their geometry. The only thing you've got on them is acceleration, and often, dropping a couple of gears and gunning it is the correct way to get out of trouble.
Stop it with this pointless common sense and responsibility-taking. If everyone behaved like you then there'd be no frivolous lawsuits!
What if a radio DJ makes a shocking announcement and he knows or has special reason to know someone may be listing while driving?
God damn songs with car horns or screeching tyres or police sirens in them. Yes, you can figure out that it's in the music and not in your environment but it's distracting enough for a second or two that it could contribute to an accident.
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on the reader
They probably actually think that the tracking of ads, at least, is good for us. "Hey if they disable browser tracking, the full page click through ads that they see are going to be totally irrelevant! That would really suck for them."
Fair enough. I don't know much about the internal structure of the pay-TV industry so I'm happy for you to substitute in the appropriate agency where I've said "the cable TV industry". :)
I wonder if the same also applied to CDs back before services like iTunes? Was it actually the bands (and not the production companies) forcing their other 7 or 8 tracks of self-indulgent crap on us as their price for letting us hear their one good song?
Good post.
If there were a Netflix-style online streaming/viewing service that offered legitimate downloads, full HD, no ads, allowing you to sign up for individual cable TV channels, that was actually available outside the U.S. ... hell, I'd buy it.
The problem as I see it is that the cable TV industry is still working on the same premise that the recording industry was working on 20 years ago. Take a couple of hits, bundle a whole lot of useless crap in with it, then make people pay for the crap they don't want in order to get to the good stuff. I don't think they quite understand how much bigger the market has become in those 20 years. They can afford to drop the sale price by 50-80%, cut out the bundling, cut out the advertising. If that will get them a significant market share, the sheer volume will make up for it.
People are quite willing to pay for services such as television, but given the absence of legal means to do so, they will turn to illegal means.
I think people are missing the point a little when they say "see, people pay for this show." These people pay for their cable TV subscription once a month but then the individual shows are "free", just like (from my point of view) I pay my internet subscription and after that anything I download is "free." There is no incremental cost of watching a show once you have your subscription.
For me, at least, it's more about effort factor. If you already have a cable subscription then it's more effort to torrent it, and so you watch it on cable. If you don't have a cable subscription then it's more effort to buy the box set than it is to just download it. Services like Netflix allow legitimate downloads for a fee, much like on-demand cable, and as such are the best of all worlds.
Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.
Oh well, it probably wouldn't have the show I want anyway. Back to ze torrents.
Maybe you (like I) think living organisms are "arcane magic" and so incredibly complex, but this guy doesn't because he understands them?