2 Clan Extended Range PPCs - ~8 Tons
2 SRM Racks - ~4 Tons
Mad Cat MkII - ~60 Tons
Stepping on someone whose psyched over their new power suit like they're an insect: Priceless.
How will we know when the War On Terror is over? George W. Bush said, on 9/20/2001, that it "will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated". How the hell are we going to determine that? Who can possibly predict how long that'll take?
We have always been at war. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I'm not sure if I could even tell the difference between a appendix or a bladder stone in 15-30 seconds....woops accidently took out your liver. Not important though, you have two of them.
Don't we all keep a few dozens of spare organs in the freezer?
I really didn't pay much attention in physics, but I seem to recall that when a thing is moving faster, that is, it has a great deal of energy relative to one point of observation, that, from that point of observation, it can be said to have gained mass. Kind of like how a baseball thrown at around a hundred miles an hour will weigh a few thousands of a gram more while in motion than when at rest.
What the hell does the Tyrant have to do with Big Brother?
He can tell what you did in the past, what you are doing now, and what you may do in the future (unless you have a no-chamber).
Sounds like Big Brother to me.:-/
But the Tyrant, Leto II, God Emperor, specifically bred his sisters descendants to create a human being who he was not able to see, for the purpose of making sure that no one would ever be able to track down all of humanity with prescience.
In a related story, HP has announced that they have embarked upon a thousands of generations long breeding program, for the purpose of creating a male who can be in all places at once, to ensure their total surveillance of all things.
Hail Eris, full of Taste, the IAU is with thee. Funky art thou among Goddesses, and Blessed is the Golden Apple of thy planet, Eris. Holy Eris, She who Dunnit, pray for all us humans now, and in the lifetime of our confusion. Fnord.
I too, believe in having the smallest government possible. One of the ideas behind Anarchy is that there is nothing the government can do for the people that the people can't do for themselves. Of course, the Government is a thing of the people. The government should not intrude into the people's lives. The government should exist only to protect the people from outside harm (other governments,) and to make it easier for public works projects to exist that are easier for the government to do than for individuals and small groups. However, the government should not intervene in virtually all public and private matters. It is better for the people to regulate themselves. Don't like someone's behavoiur? Don't throw them in jail -- stop associating with them, and doing business with them. If enough of the people feel the same way, something will come of it.
Oh, come off it you AC nutjob. I know the guy who got the "i" from the Niketown store sign in the Seattle WTO riots in 1999, and he's definitely not an agent provocateur--just a standard-issue leftie/geek/hippie. He's one of the many, many protestors who thinks some random political cause justifies their personal acts of vandalism, trespass, theft, and destruction of property.
Maybe you're thinking of anarchists, they were the ones damaging property and stealing.
Falcon
As an anarchist myself, whenever I see one of those types of anarchists, I do us all a favour and slam them up against the wall and punch them in the gut a few times, demonstrating to them exactly what their idea of 'anarchy' really is.
I'm well aware of Geek Culture and Societal Norms. However, it used to be a societal norm to consider the Earth as being flat. Any position founding on ignorance is wrong. Take a logic class.
The day I can't devote even some fraction of my attention to all the little things in life if is the day the world starts to goto hell. It's the little things that count. Picking up that bit a of trash the guy walking infront of you threw to the ground instead of tossing in the garbage can five feet infront of him, breaking up a fight between two guys who are too drunk to realise how badly they could hurt each other, or asking that girl crying, "Are you okay?" The day I stop caring about one little thing, I'll stop caring about all of them.
When the OP said virii, I knew he was communicating virus in the plural form, (Emphasis added)
The point is that virii is not the plural of virus. Virus is the plural of virus in latin, and Viruses is the plural of virus in english. For Virii to even make sense as a Latin Plural of the Second Declension, the singular would have to be Virius. Not Virus. If Virus declined as a second declension noun, it would be viri -- confusable with the plural of the word that can be translated as 'hero or man' depending on context.
It's not that we're pedants -- I don't mind when someone corrects me when I'm wrong. What we're angry about is how ignorance has become acceptable. It used to be, when you were ignorant of something, you were corrected and you learned from it. How would you feel about this sort of behaviour if, instead of the virus/virri debate, it was TCP/IP/tubes debate?
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2 Clan Extended Range PPCs - ~8 Tons 2 SRM Racks - ~4 Tons Mad Cat MkII - ~60 Tons Stepping on someone whose psyched over their new power suit like they're an insect: Priceless.
But wait! What... What if we ARE all made out of antimatter and living on antimatter planets?!
/me runs off to write a really, really bad movie script
Why does everyone always forget the last quote?
Power is God.
I've been doing that for years.
Simple.
Magic.
But Nixon's already been president...
Don't we all keep a few dozens of spare organs in the freezer?
Until the control is good enough that I can, say, play guitar without any more difficulty than I do with my meat hand, I think I'll stick with meat.
Yes.
I really didn't pay much attention in physics, but I seem to recall that when a thing is moving faster, that is, it has a great deal of energy relative to one point of observation, that, from that point of observation, it can be said to have gained mass. Kind of like how a baseball thrown at around a hundred miles an hour will weigh a few thousands of a gram more while in motion than when at rest.
God, how I should love to have your genes.
Please, for the sake of future generations, breed.
But the Tyrant, Leto II, God Emperor, specifically bred his sisters descendants to create a human being who he was not able to see, for the purpose of making sure that no one would ever be able to track down all of humanity with prescience.
Woah, woah, woah, there, pal. You're confusing Orwell and Herbert. What the hell does the Tyrant have to do with Big Brother?
In a related story, HP has announced that they have embarked upon a thousands of generations long breeding program, for the purpose of creating a male who can be in all places at once, to ensure their total surveillance of all things.
Hail Eris, full of Taste, the IAU is with thee.
Funky art thou among Goddesses, and Blessed is the Golden Apple of thy planet, Eris.
Holy Eris, She who Dunnit, pray for all us humans now, and in the lifetime of our confusion.
Fnord.
I too, believe in having the smallest government possible. One of the ideas behind Anarchy is that there is nothing the government can do for the people that the people can't do for themselves. Of course, the Government is a thing of the people. The government should not intrude into the people's lives. The government should exist only to protect the people from outside harm (other governments,) and to make it easier for public works projects to exist that are easier for the government to do than for individuals and small groups. However, the government should not intervene in virtually all public and private matters. It is better for the people to regulate themselves. Don't like someone's behavoiur? Don't throw them in jail -- stop associating with them, and doing business with them. If enough of the people feel the same way, something will come of it.
As an anarchist myself, whenever I see one of those types of anarchists, I do us all a favour and slam them up against the wall and punch them in the gut a few times, demonstrating to them exactly what their idea of 'anarchy' really is.
What does the Dark Side of the Force have to do with DnD?
I'm well aware of Geek Culture and Societal Norms. However, it used to be a societal norm to consider the Earth as being flat. Any position founding on ignorance is wrong. Take a logic class.
Ignorance, sir, is something that there should never be any tolerance for.
Ave Caesar!
I know Latin (I used to know it alot better.) If the Language is dead, sir, then why don't you quit disturbing its rest by fucking with it?
Certainly. Would you prefer to do it by my /. nickname, or my real name?
The day I can't devote even some fraction of my attention to all the little things in life if is the day the world starts to goto hell. It's the little things that count. Picking up that bit a of trash the guy walking infront of you threw to the ground instead of tossing in the garbage can five feet infront of him, breaking up a fight between two guys who are too drunk to realise how badly they could hurt each other, or asking that girl crying, "Are you okay?" The day I stop caring about one little thing, I'll stop caring about all of them.
The point is that virii is not the plural of virus. Virus is the plural of virus in latin, and Viruses is the plural of virus in english. For Virii to even make sense as a Latin Plural of the Second Declension, the singular would have to be Virius. Not Virus. If Virus declined as a second declension noun, it would be viri -- confusable with the plural of the word that can be translated as 'hero or man' depending on context.
It's not that we're pedants -- I don't mind when someone corrects me when I'm wrong. What we're angry about is how ignorance has become acceptable. It used to be, when you were ignorant of something, you were corrected and you learned from it. How would you feel about this sort of behaviour if, instead of the virus/virri debate, it was TCP/IP/tubes debate?