"We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. AM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge." -I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
Doesn't the 3DS basically have a "depth" slider which, at the lowest setting, entirely turns off the 3D effect and can also give increased battery life/refresh rate? Everybody concerned could just turn it off.
Quite so-- omitting all other arguments, I'd prefer taking science as my religion of choice simply because of that element of 'miracles on demand'. I don't need to ask and wait until somebody gets around to separating all that darkness; I get light by poking that weird thing on the wall.
Ignoring the effect to the individual in question, but is it really so bad that some people can achieve a "normal" person's achievements in a third the time? Even if they do nothing for the rest of their lives, they already did as much as other people.
Speaking as though this passed in the US, I'm mildly concerned. There are plenty of extra costs that may be incurred, such as metered bandwidth or access of illegal materials. If this were to fly, it would also necessitate that other people using your network without authorization would not come back to bite the network holder.
My fiancée does that. Some of my gems include 'What must I do to get this chocolatey goodness out of you?!' after strugging with a chocolate cake in a clampack for about five minutes and 'Don't you just wish you could discharge your entire rectum at once?'
Heh. When I had to take my car in for service the other day, I literally had over six inches of solidly packed snow and solid ice under my car. They said they actually had to bump my car back in the queue to let it thaw enough so they could crack it off. Bet THAT would damage a GPS!
'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Retry.' Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
Reminds me of the plot for the original Outpost game. One faction released a terraforming microbe that was designed to rip apart apart molecules and reassemble them into human-friendly O2. It didn't work out so well when sinkholes started appearing all over the surface of the planet and people started melting.
"You've got a good product and you need legitimate advertising for it. It occurred to me that there are more ways to use the Moon in advertising than by defacing it. Now just suppose that your company bought the same concession, but with the public-spirited promise of never letting it be used. Suppose you featured that fact in your ads? Suppose you ran pictures of a boy and girl, sitting out under the Moon, sharing a bottle of Moke? Suppose Moke was the only soft drink carried on the first trip to the Moon?" -The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert Heinlein
Seconded on the FedEx element: a business next to mine once lost a 5000$ package because they showed up an hour before the mall opened and gave it to a random loiterer leaning on their counter (from the outside).
If I recall correctly, they refused to pay the insurance on it since it was delivered to the correct address and somebody at that address did sign for it.
Every single way conceivable? Just a random thought, but it's sure a lot easier to put somebody into shock by twisting testicles on a male than a female...
Taiwan, where you have to pay for your plastic bags. Yes, the thin normal ones. For the cost of 5 bags or so, I could get dinner at a dumpling place down the street from where I lived.
I'm a jeweler, and routinely weld in such a small space... I utilize torch, laser and arc, depending on the job and all the equipment necessary would fit into/onto a decently sized table. Like my old kitchen table.
Of course, I doubt the OP is referring to welding on such a small scale.
There's a few games that solve this problem in a remarkably effective way: It just asks you to, for example, look up, towards the ceiling. And sets the Y-axis accordingly.
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Nope. But it's the same link in the article too!
"Out of a cannon. Into the sun."
"We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. AM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak, soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge."
-I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
Doesn't the 3DS basically have a "depth" slider which, at the lowest setting, entirely turns off the 3D effect and can also give increased battery life/refresh rate? Everybody concerned could just turn it off.
Quite so-- omitting all other arguments, I'd prefer taking science as my religion of choice simply because of that element of 'miracles on demand'. I don't need to ask and wait until somebody gets around to separating all that darkness; I get light by poking that weird thing on the wall.
Ignoring the effect to the individual in question, but is it really so bad that some people can achieve a "normal" person's achievements in a third the time? Even if they do nothing for the rest of their lives, they already did as much as other people.
Speaking as though this passed in the US, I'm mildly concerned. There are plenty of extra costs that may be incurred, such as metered bandwidth or access of illegal materials. If this were to fly, it would also necessitate that other people using your network without authorization would not come back to bite the network holder.
My fiancée does that. Some of my gems include 'What must I do to get this chocolatey goodness out of you?!' after strugging with a chocolate cake in a clampack for about five minutes and 'Don't you just wish you could discharge your entire rectum at once?'
Heh. When I had to take my car in for service the other day, I literally had over six inches of solidly packed snow and solid ice under my car. They said they actually had to bump my car back in the queue to let it thaw enough so they could crack it off. Bet THAT would damage a GPS!
'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Retry.'
Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft
--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"This man was the son of a president, a president himself, and invaded the same country as his father."
I'm feeling lucky...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
Reminds me of the plot for the original Outpost game. One faction released a terraforming microbe that was designed to rip apart apart molecules and reassemble them into human-friendly O2. It didn't work out so well when sinkholes started appearing all over the surface of the planet and people started melting.
Preemptive conclusions?
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I have a smartphone without a data plan-- I just use it as an overpowered PDA.
I really liked shouting 'OBJECTION!' though...
"You've got a good product and you need legitimate advertising for it. It occurred to me that there are more ways to use the Moon in advertising than by defacing it. Now just suppose that your company bought the same concession, but with the public-spirited promise of never letting it be used. Suppose you featured that fact in your ads? Suppose you ran pictures of a boy and girl, sitting out under the Moon, sharing a bottle of Moke? Suppose Moke was the only soft drink carried on the first trip to the Moon?" -The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert Heinlein
Seconded on the FedEx element: a business next to mine once lost a 5000$ package because they showed up an hour before the mall opened and gave it to a random loiterer leaning on their counter (from the outside).
If I recall correctly, they refused to pay the insurance on it since it was delivered to the correct address and somebody at that address did sign for it.
Every single way conceivable? Just a random thought, but it's sure a lot easier to put somebody into shock by twisting testicles on a male than a female...
Taiwan, where you have to pay for your plastic bags. Yes, the thin normal ones. For the cost of 5 bags or so, I could get dinner at a dumpling place down the street from where I lived.
Didn't you just summarize the process of making consomme?
I'm a jeweler, and routinely weld in such a small space... I utilize torch, laser and arc, depending on the job and all the equipment necessary would fit into/onto a decently sized table. Like my old kitchen table.
Of course, I doubt the OP is referring to welding on such a small scale.
There's a few games that solve this problem in a remarkably effective way: It just asks you to, for example, look up, towards the ceiling. And sets the Y-axis accordingly.
I spell my name B-R-I-V-O-L-B-N-7-Q.
And just to forestall any demands for an example, I'm pretty sure that Ted Turner is an example of a private individual with a minigun. At least,
Presumably, you'd be licking your OWN cell phone, not just anyone's...