Ah, I'm replying to an AC, but I remember back when AC didn't immediately mean "troll", so I'll reply.
Of course, all of the religions spawned in that place and at that time are fanatical. Why is this surprising?
Let's compare the Old Testament, shared by the other main religious competitors:
From Numbers:
31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. 31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. 31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho. 31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Hmm...sounds pretty freaky and fanatical to me. In fact, sounds downright genocidal, in addition to any squickiness about stealing away all of the virgin girls for sex slavery.
Interesting point, but given how few of the current crop of pampered, over-coddled, self-esteem-boosted spawn are showing any tendencies to even function in real society, much less succeed or exceed the standards, it's unlikely that they'll even live up to the standard set by an aging actor. I'd take one proven success of a Chris Reeve over several thousand wittle pweciouses. Most of the sprogs will grow up useless anyway.
Sigh. Sound Politics is the place you want to go if you want to hear the far-right side of things. Admittedly, most of the local media is somewhat left-leaning, but presenting Sound Politics as a place to get valid information is like presenting Limbaugh as a place to get valid news.
Well, considering you have a Voltaire quote in your sig, perhaps you should check the *other* Voltaire out. The reference you missed is to the song linked, from Banned On Vulcan
Nope, the post panning this insufferable pile of crap was right on. Bad dialogue, bad acting, bad fight scene, bad score, stupid premise, and extra-weak ending. Were this a film by a grade-school drama class, I might be inclined to laugh it off, but the "actors" were obviously old enough to know better -- unless they have some form of mental illness or delayed development. Perhaps that's it; It'd be the best short film written, filmed, acted, and directed by the developmentally delayed I've seen all year.
Where's the dichotomy? If one were pro-personal-freedom on one point, that pro-freedom view should carry over. Of course all ingested chemicals should be legalized, as long as society does not have to pay for misadventure. Hint: There are more than Republicrats and Democans in the world.
"I ask, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." --George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, which was used as the base for the US Bill of Rights.
Here's the original text of that amendment...perhaps this will make things clearer: "That the People have a right to keep and bear Arms; that a well regulated Militia, composed of the Body of the People, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe Defence of a free state."
Already exists, of course, just costs a bit to put the sensors in, and a bit for maintenance and sensor tuning so the sensors don't leave people on motorcycles sitting forever. Most places in the US and Europe should already have at least some of these installed, I assume Asia does as well, but I've not been there, just Europe and the US. In fact, I'd bet that the larger cities in the more advanced African and South American countries have them. Where are you that you don't have any sensor traffic lights installed, and have never seen/heard of them?
How do you correlate "enjoyable" and "entertaining" with lack of personal liberty and privacy? IMO, such a society would not be entertaining and enjoyable, and could not be made so without liberty and privacy.
One of the big problems to date has been NASA's overwhelming insistence on safety at the expense of actually developing the technology. Exploring a new, developing frontier is going to be dangerous, especially when that frontier is inimical to human life. People will be killed doing so. We lose how many people per year doing things like catching fish and crab in Alaska? (I saved you the trouble of looking it up: By the latest 5-year average, about 34 vessels sink each year, with about 24 lives lost annually.) The human cost is acceptable, though tragic. Ask the people taking these risks what they'd view as acceptable...it's a lot higher than the pundits that want to shut down space exploration.
You're right....it's time, or past time, to severely thin NASA and have the government space business contracted out to private industry.
Well, Racer isn't open source, but it's definitely free and source-available, and Ruud is pretty good about taking patches. You could definitely do what you're talking about with it.
Hollywood has a real problem with doing accurate explosions. Hint to Hollywood: High explosive doesn't have big flames that billow. That's for explosions that have fuel, or badly-designed explosives that deflagrate instead of detonate. Frex, watch the difference between the Javelins and TOWs and the M1's HEAT rounds(being used on buildings) and the typical Hollywood explosion. Proper HE detonates with a flash that's not very visible in the daylight, and the blast wave moves almost too fast to see. No billowing flames. That sort of flame *did* show up when the Marines were blowing up the T-54s, with secondary explosions. The fuel in the tanks and the uncontained rounds in the autoloaders were exploding, but not detonating.
Well, now you know, or at least have heard from, several people that read ebooks on their PDAs. In fact, it's so popular that there's a fairly well-trafficked newsgroup dedicated to it. On my Clie, I can keep a decent bookshelf ready to go, and I've *always* got a book with me. PalmReader and iSilo are both quite legible, and it's nice to not have to worry about keeping track of multiple bulky items in order to have books easily accessible.
However, in your attempt to be absurd, you've touched on something very basic. Far, far too many people rely solely on simple, ineffective door and window locks, and the false promise of law enforcement. In doing so, they fail to learn how to protect themselves, and are then blindsided when someone who isn't too concerned about those measures bypasses them and harms them. It's the very same philosophy that keeps organizations using the "hard shell, soft chewy center" methodology instead of true security-focused design.
Of course, you conveniently ignore the fact that grip driving has been demonstrated over and over and over to be the fastest, most repeatable, most sustainable way to get around a road course. Rally, on the other hand, has some use for drifting, but not on road courses since the invention of modern tire compounds. Once upon a time, hard compound tires needed to be kept at beyond their limit of traction in order to get the fastest times around the road courses of the day. This is *not* the case any more. Drifting, as it's currently practiced in Japan, is pretty much the automotive equivalent of pro wrestling, mostly for style, and not for performance.
Also, in FIA Group A and WRC cars, the engine is breathing through a 34mm intake restrictor (32mm on Group N). It's not surprising at all that cars that aren't built to the restrictive FIA standards can outperform the race cars. Plus, the EMSes are completely differnt from the systems that are in production cars.
You can already log a whole bunch of info from the OBD-II port, and there are piggyback and standalone EMS'es that will allow you to do full tuning. You're quite right that general-purpose computers are a bad idea for EMS. There's even a Palm app that willl log the OBD-II information. Check my other post for a handful of links to OBD-II monitoring programs, and the free one in the article.
Ahh, if you thought the older computer carb stuff was cool, you should really look into what's being done with modern aftermarket EMS'es and EFI. For example, the MoTEC can do everything from traction control to programmable boost control by gear, load level, and speed.
It's possible to do the sort of stuff you're talking about with a modern injection system and something like the S-AFC or eManage piggyback computers.
If you were doing car/computer geeking back that far, you might well have *lots* of fun with what it's possible to do now. Drop by the DIY-EFI site and check out the work in progress.
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Well, there have been a couple of trolls saying so, but they're pretty obvious trolls. Even then, 5 people can't sustain a business model.
They're being sneaky about it because of the expectation of this very reaction.
Cash->PLEX->isk->items feeds the economy twice.
Cash->PLEX->AUR->items feeds nothing but CCP.
(insert obligatory "they're on Slashdot-what girlfriend?" joke)
Well, let's see. Personally, I don't mind what my wife or either of my girlfriends do, though some choose
to remove body hair, and some have not.
Of course, all of the religions spawned in that place and at that time are fanatical. Why is this surprising?
Let's compare the Old Testament, shared by the other main religious competitors:
From Numbers:
31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Hmm...sounds pretty freaky and fanatical to me. In fact, sounds downright genocidal, in addition to any squickiness about stealing away all of the virgin girls for sex slavery.
Interesting point, but given how few of the current crop of pampered, over-coddled, self-esteem-boosted spawn are showing any tendencies to even function in real society, much less succeed or exceed the standards, it's unlikely that they'll even live up to the standard set by an aging actor.
I'd take one proven success of a Chris Reeve over several thousand wittle pweciouses. Most of the sprogs will grow up useless anyway.
Sigh. Sound Politics is the place you want to go if you want to hear the far-right side of things. Admittedly, most of the local media is somewhat left-leaning, but presenting Sound Politics as a place to get valid information is like presenting Limbaugh as a place to get valid news.
Well, considering you have a Voltaire quote in your sig, perhaps you should check the *other* Voltaire out. The reference you missed is to the song linked, from Banned On Vulcan
Nope, the post panning this insufferable pile of crap was right on. Bad dialogue, bad acting, bad fight scene, bad score, stupid premise, and extra-weak ending. Were this a film by a grade-school drama class, I might be inclined to laugh it off, but the "actors" were obviously old enough to know better -- unless they have some form of mental illness or delayed development. Perhaps that's it; It'd be the best short film written, filmed, acted, and directed by the developmentally delayed I've seen all year.
Where's the dichotomy? If one were pro-personal-freedom on one point, that pro-freedom view should carry over. Of course all ingested chemicals should be legalized, as long as society does not have to pay for misadventure.
Hint: There are more than Republicrats and Democans in the world.
"I ask, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
--George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, which was used as the base for the US Bill of Rights.
Here's the original text of that amendment...perhaps this will make things clearer: "That the People have a right to keep and bear Arms; that a well regulated Militia, composed of the Body of the People, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe Defence of a free state."
Already exists, of course, just costs a bit to put the sensors in, and a bit for maintenance and sensor tuning so the sensors don't leave people on motorcycles sitting forever. Most places in the US and Europe should already have at least some of these installed, I assume Asia does as well, but I've not been there, just Europe and the US. In fact, I'd bet that the larger cities in the more advanced African and South American countries have them. Where are you that you don't have any sensor traffic lights installed, and have never seen/heard of them?
How do you correlate "enjoyable" and "entertaining" with lack of personal liberty and privacy? IMO, such a society would not be entertaining and enjoyable, and could not be made so without liberty and privacy.
One of the big problems to date has been NASA's overwhelming insistence on safety at the expense of actually developing the technology. Exploring a new, developing frontier is going to be dangerous, especially when that frontier is inimical to human life. People will be killed doing so. We lose how many people per year doing things like catching fish and crab in Alaska? (I saved you the trouble of looking it up: By the latest 5-year average, about 34 vessels sink each year, with about 24 lives lost annually.) The human cost is acceptable, though tragic. Ask the people taking these risks what they'd view as acceptable...it's a lot higher than the pundits that want to shut down space exploration. You're right....it's time, or past time, to severely thin NASA and have the government space business contracted out to private industry.
This is, as many are pointing out, exactly the problem.
Nitpick: It's orang utan, not orangutang. It's Malay for "man of the forest".
Well, Racer isn't open source, but it's definitely free and source-available, and Ruud is pretty good about taking patches. You could definitely do what you're talking about with it.
Hollywood has a real problem with doing accurate explosions. Hint to Hollywood: High explosive doesn't have big flames that billow. That's for explosions that have fuel, or badly-designed explosives that deflagrate instead of detonate. Frex, watch the difference between the Javelins and TOWs and the M1's HEAT rounds(being used on buildings) and the typical Hollywood explosion. Proper HE detonates with a flash that's not very visible in the daylight, and the blast wave moves almost too fast to see. No billowing flames. That sort of flame *did* show up when the Marines were blowing up the T-54s, with secondary explosions. The fuel in the tanks and the uncontained rounds in the autoloaders were exploding, but not detonating.
Well, now you know, or at least have heard from, several people that read ebooks on their PDAs. In fact, it's so popular that there's a fairly well-trafficked newsgroup dedicated to it. On my Clie, I can keep a decent bookshelf ready to go, and I've *always* got a book with me. PalmReader and iSilo are both quite legible, and it's nice to not have to worry about keeping track of multiple bulky items in order to have books easily accessible.
However, in your attempt to be absurd, you've touched on something very basic. Far, far too many people rely solely on simple, ineffective door and window locks, and the false promise of law enforcement. In doing so, they fail to learn how to protect themselves, and are then blindsided when someone who isn't too concerned about those measures bypasses them and harms them. It's the very same philosophy that keeps organizations using the "hard shell, soft chewy center" methodology instead of true security-focused design.
Of course, you conveniently ignore the fact that grip driving has been demonstrated over and over and over to be the fastest, most repeatable, most sustainable way to get around a road course. Rally, on the other hand, has some use for drifting, but not on road courses since the invention of modern tire compounds. Once upon a time, hard compound tires needed to be kept at beyond their limit of traction in order to get the fastest times around the road courses of the day. This is *not* the case any more.
Drifting, as it's currently practiced in Japan, is pretty much the automotive equivalent of pro wrestling, mostly for style, and not for performance.
Heh, at least until that old crankwalk monster gets to 'em. DSMs have their own problems when breathed on.
Also, in FIA Group A and WRC cars, the engine is breathing through a 34mm intake restrictor (32mm on Group N). It's not surprising at all that cars that aren't built to the restrictive FIA standards can outperform the race cars. Plus, the EMSes are completely differnt from the systems that are in production cars.
You can already log a whole bunch of info from the OBD-II port, and there are piggyback and standalone EMS'es that will allow you to do full tuning. You're quite right that general-purpose computers are a bad idea for EMS.
There's even a Palm app that willl log the OBD-II information. Check my other post for a handful of links to OBD-II monitoring programs, and the free one in the article.
Ahh, if you thought the older computer carb stuff was cool, you should really look into what's being done with modern aftermarket EMS'es and EFI. For example, the MoTEC can do everything from traction control to programmable boost control by gear, load level, and speed.
It's possible to do the sort of stuff you're talking about with a modern injection system and something like the S-AFC or eManage piggyback computers.
If you were doing car/computer geeking back that far, you might well have *lots* of fun with what it's possible to do now. Drop by the DIY-EFI site and check out the work in progress.