I don't think it's necessarily the fault of the doctors in this case. Can you imagine yourself saying, "Oh hey, I'd love to be conscious while you slice me open and dig around in my body!"?
I recall an episode of Scrubs where the interns learn to do sutures by using oranges. 100 years from now we're going to have fruit and vegetable rights activists complaining about that.
Oh wow... I sustain 3d6 Nostalgia damage. I loved that place.
For the uninformed, The Land of Make Believe is a local New Jersey amusement park. Very small, family oriented, and lots of historical rides - the most famous of which is a rather impressive train.
How the hell can that fly? Interstate. It literally means "between states", meaning if something doesn't cross a border than it isn't interstate commerce. You don't even need a law book to understand this - you just need a dictionary.
I'm surprised those cases haven't been completely thrown out.
Not to mention finding a co-signer... in Japan, you need to have someone co-sign on your lease. This is much like co-signing on a loan and the Japanese treat it about as seriously. It's a huge obstacle to anyone foreign trying to get an apartment or something (who would sign for a gaijin?).
Moreover, it's also kinda evil. If you're alone, you'd have a hard time finding a co-signer. But this essentially prevents non-Japanese couples from getting an apartment. If you marry someone who's Japanese, that person will surely have relatives who would be glad to co-sign. But if you are married to someone who isn't a native, then you're going to have a difficult time finding a co-signer.
With my sensitivity settings in most "twitch" FPS games, moving my mouse ~2 inches spins my screen around a full three times. You can't get that kind of sensitivity and control on a tiny touchscreen. It's just not possible.
This would be like DDOSing EVE servers that you know enemy ships are currently floating on so you can take over their territories virtually unopposed. IMO EVE should rollback to prior the crash.
It takes months and months of work to get those sort of ships together.
Well if I ever saw an Illuminati-type fellar he was always a'readin' one of them thar books with all their gobbledegook secret codes and latina language or whatnot.
As a freelance computer fixer-upper, I love Best Buy. Overpriced, half-assed service practically makes me the golden boy.
I (and other freelancers):
Don't push unnecessary services, typically, because we depend on a comparatively small pool of customers.
Am not tied to any vendors. Sure, we may have our vendor loyalties (I'll take NVidia over ATI any day) based on personal experience, but Intel isn't lining our pockets.
Typically get paid by the hour, anywhere from $10/hr to as much as $150/hr working for individuals - this does not count businesses. So while it would behoove us in the short term to drag things out and pad the bill, in the long term that would hurt us. So on the whole, we don't.
Don't make a profit, aside from time, on purchases. We make our money on helping you pick out a system and the related components to fit within your budget and your needs, not because we're getting a kickback. Ultimately, that benefits the customer more and ends up costing them less in the long-run.
Trying to play a FPS - especially a high-speed, twitchy one like Quake - with anything other than a mouse and keyboard is absolute madness.
I get it. It's Quake, it's Doom. You essentially have to port it, just for the geek cred. But I really wish people would stop putting these games on phones.
If anything, I'd think phones (especially ones with touchscreens) are practically made for rail shooters. How about Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Maximum Force, Area 51... those would be a shit-ton of fun. Use Bluetooth/Wifi for linkplay.
Frankly, I'm disappointed with all this tablet stuff. Tablet PCs are nice, but I'm really into the convertibles - the laptops that can have the screen whip around and become a tablet. It's hard to find a halfway decent one where the price isn't jacked up.
But is it more of a losing proposition than letting China ream us?
If it costs $1,000 to get $UNDEFINED_UNIT over to America and $950 to handle it ourselves, no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is it would be cheaper to handle it ourselves. Someone ought to run the real numbers...
What I wonder is how is refining it so damaging to the environment?
I mean, can't we just jam a refinery out in the desert somewhere? Unless someone gives a shit about lizards and snakes getting the black lung, I don't see why we couldn't refine it ourselves.
Finally, you can build a suitable explosive device from your water heater! Go watch Mythbusters and scale up according to need.
As I recall, it was less of a boom and more of a whoosh. That is, the thing didn't explode so much as one end of the water heater exploded and launched through the model "house" like a rocket about 200 feet into the air. That's not much of a bomb.
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'oH pa' tlhIngan mu' vaD mob? toH HIja', loneliness.
(Running it through here and being a Simpsons fan may help one understand the reference.
there's a kernel of truth in that.
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The sort of people who check MD5 hashes, of course.
My daughter ain't marryin' no Zorblaxian!
That may also be a possibility, but the more people hear about a local legend the better. d:
I don't think it's necessarily the fault of the doctors in this case. Can you imagine yourself saying, "Oh hey, I'd love to be conscious while you slice me open and dig around in my body!"?
I recall an episode of Scrubs where the interns learn to do sutures by using oranges. 100 years from now we're going to have fruit and vegetable rights activists complaining about that.
This makes me wonder somethin'. We raise animals for their byproducts (milk, cheese, wool), so why aren't there things like horseshoe crab farms?
* Wait, this isn't the land of make believe!
Oh wow... I sustain 3d6 Nostalgia damage. I loved that place.
For the uninformed, The Land of Make Believe is a local New Jersey amusement park. Very small, family oriented, and lots of historical rides - the most famous of which is a rather impressive train.
How the hell can that fly? Interstate. It literally means "between states", meaning if something doesn't cross a border than it isn't interstate commerce. You don't even need a law book to understand this - you just need a dictionary.
I'm surprised those cases haven't been completely thrown out.
Yeah, but that's no different than a hotel really. What about foreigners who want to live in Japan long term? Their S.O.L.
Not to mention finding a co-signer... in Japan, you need to have someone co-sign on your lease. This is much like co-signing on a loan and the Japanese treat it about as seriously. It's a huge obstacle to anyone foreign trying to get an apartment or something (who would sign for a gaijin?).
Moreover, it's also kinda evil. If you're alone, you'd have a hard time finding a co-signer. But this essentially prevents non-Japanese couples from getting an apartment. If you marry someone who's Japanese, that person will surely have relatives who would be glad to co-sign. But if you are married to someone who isn't a native, then you're going to have a difficult time finding a co-signer.
Incidentally, is there a way to defeat such a device? Thermal-proofing, as it were?
With my sensitivity settings in most "twitch" FPS games, moving my mouse ~2 inches spins my screen around a full three times. You can't get that kind of sensitivity and control on a tiny touchscreen. It's just not possible.
This would be like DDOSing EVE servers that you know enemy ships are currently floating on so you can take over their territories virtually unopposed. IMO EVE should rollback to prior the crash.
It takes months and months of work to get those sort of ships together.
Well if I ever saw an Illuminati-type fellar he was always a'readin' one of them thar books with all their gobbledegook secret codes and latina language or whatnot.
As a freelance computer fixer-upper, I love Best Buy. Overpriced, half-assed service practically makes me the golden boy.
I (and other freelancers):
Trying to play a FPS - especially a high-speed, twitchy one like Quake - with anything other than a mouse and keyboard is absolute madness.
I get it. It's Quake, it's Doom. You essentially have to port it, just for the geek cred. But I really wish people would stop putting these games on phones.
If anything, I'd think phones (especially ones with touchscreens) are practically made for rail shooters. How about Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Maximum Force, Area 51... those would be a shit-ton of fun. Use Bluetooth/Wifi for linkplay.
Frankly, I'm disappointed with all this tablet stuff. Tablet PCs are nice, but I'm really into the convertibles - the laptops that can have the screen whip around and become a tablet. It's hard to find a halfway decent one where the price isn't jacked up.
But is it more of a losing proposition than letting China ream us?
If it costs $1,000 to get $UNDEFINED_UNIT over to America and $950 to handle it ourselves, no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is it would be cheaper to handle it ourselves. Someone ought to run the real numbers...
A standard-size keyboard is fine for me, although I dream of getting one of those Model M remakes.
But like 30,000 people die every year from the swine flu! That's 10 9/11's! TEN!
How can you sleep at night?
What I wonder is how is refining it so damaging to the environment?
I mean, can't we just jam a refinery out in the desert somewhere? Unless someone gives a shit about lizards and snakes getting the black lung, I don't see why we couldn't refine it ourselves.
Finally, you can build a suitable explosive device from your water heater! Go watch Mythbusters and scale up according to need.
As I recall, it was less of a boom and more of a whoosh. That is, the thing didn't explode so much as one end of the water heater exploded and launched through the model "house" like a rocket about 200 feet into the air. That's not much of a bomb.
As Adam said, "That's a rocket, my friend - not a bomb."
If we needed carbon fibre badly enough, hell, there's probably three or four hundred tons of it just on the hoods of cars in Newark, NJ.