Um, just because it's magical doesn't mean you have to explain it with magic. If something has an unexplained behavior, the logical course of action is to influence it and make deductions based on the outcome. You use conscience as an example. Well there are degrees of awareness you know. There are the moments of torpor that leave you with little of it, and there are the adrenalin pumping moments that leave a heightened sense of existence. So already we know of a way to manipulate this magic, so I'm sure as technology improves we will understand it better.
A funny question posed in a philosophy debate is how do you know you experience conscience? What if you only had some mechanism that was inferior to conscience similar to the way some people can detect more variations in light qualia?
Sooner or later, freenet will become more popular, and all searches for illegal downloads will become native to the client. And with the encryption that it offers, there will be no stopping people from getting what they want. Rather, the companies might wisen up and start giving incentives to buy, rather than treat their customers like scum.
Also, why is this under "Your Rights Online?" Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Because the rights of illegal downloading is not in question, it's the right to host a site that tracks torrents. You see, as long as there is a site that legitimately hosts non-copyrighted material, there will be people who post torrents that contain other material. To the dismay of the record companies, there will never be an end to piracy, however, these sites should not be one to suffer. While you may compare this to government shutting down legitimate bars that happen to be a gathering place for criminals that sell illegal weapons, there is a difference. Imagine that these bars were magical, so that even a tiny bar would only have to have its name whispered to have vendors teleport their wares through that bar. Some are even in a magical untouchable plane (this would be similar to sites hosted out of jurisdiction). Going after the largest bar because it's very well known and mostly criminals use it wouldn't make much sense. All the criminals would go elsewhere and you'd have the same damn problem, until the evil warlocks responsible monopolize magic bars. Then we would have to wait for a hero who can wield the sword of Gargatha to slay these evil warlocks. But there's a rumor that these evil warlocks have been killing virgins to gain immunity to the sword. I don't know what this would be analogous to but I though it would be fun to add.
Your post is incredibly relevant considering that the Mayan calendar simply starts over at that time rather than predicting the end. The Apocalyptic prediction from the calendar was simply speculation that arose from not knowing the language. There's not exactly a Mayan Rosetta Stone so even all that we know about the language is still premature.
Of course it's not by chance. The problem is nearly every communist revolution has started with a man who claims to be for the people (using communism as a rouse), then instantly becomes a dictator. It's too quick of a transition. The transition of British monarch to American government only went smooth because of a large group of forefathers that we were lucky enough to have. Did you know that George Washington's men wanted to have him become king? We were lucky enough that he disagreed, otherwise it would have all gone to shit.
Despite what evidence? You mean the conglomerate of dictators that declare to use a system that is entirely based on democracy? For the love of Christ go out and do some research. Go to Wikipedia and look up communism. Communism is closer to democracy than America is (the US is a constitutional republic, which is why it has more power over it's citizens rather than vice-versa). The whole point of communism is to disperse power as much as possible. Communism itself is a series of principles that makes it so only productive labor becomes an asset to a civilization. I always take a look a genius investment bankers and wonder how much progress we would have if they all dedicated themselves to science. Seriously, where do people think that money comes from? It's a fucking imaginary object that people go nuts over. No government has successfully implemented it because the theory is really unfinished, as are the means to accomplish it. I've daydreamed of a class system based completely on skill, in which scientists, inventors, and mathematicians are the highest class. Think about it. Without them we would be in the fucking stone age. No other accomplishment would make a damn difference in this world. Even systems of governing are based on philosophy and psychology, which is really science.
Just a quick bit of physics review: 1)A=V/t 2)d=.5*A*t^2 now substituting, we get d=.5*(V/t)*t^2=.5*V*t. The distance of the cannon is 1.1, the final velocity is 6, thus the time is about.37s. This would imply an acceleration of about 1670G. So the acceleration due to gravity is essentially multiplied thousands of times. Ever watch DBZ? Yea, well even Goku had a tough time with 100x gravity. Don't see how it will work with anything but raw materials. Any structural entity would be reduced to a density stratum.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make this claim if they didn't have some hard science to back it up. That's a lot of big organizations putting their reputation on the line, so I'm more worried about how much this battery will cost and how long is its lifetime, because if it is high and low respectively, then it's just as impractical as 200 mpc.
Actually, a high-tech modified zeppelin would be better, because you run the risk of your ship getting swarmed by zombie birds. Zeppelins can go much higher than birds can, but you might have to have a vegetarian diet. The zeppelin could divert the sunlight it receives into multiple growth decks, where the plants would sustain a small colony of people. You may wonder where the water comes from, but respiration actually generates water, so as long as you have a device that captures humidity and seal up the area, you should be good on water (a note to the less informed: the reason we need to intake water is because of the vast amounts of water vapor that we exhale, and some to urination and sweating as well). The whole place would pretty much be like a space station, however there would be one catch: they would all have to be females. The reason being that if we want to repopulate the earth, we need to have as little inbreeding as possible, and since sperm can be frozen, the variety yield can be much greater. Of course I would be the only exception, but I will sacrifice my ambitions of having a child during that time and use berth control, while teaching the rest of the women how to repopulate the old-fashion way.
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Everybody knows that geeks want to be frozen until the day that they can be made into cyborgs
Well, I think by glory he means prestige. And quite frankly, it has gone out, and greed/incompetence has taken care of that. There was once a time where being a police man was a title of privilege and respect. Now the government has pushed laws that turn them into fat, power greedy (at the expense of civil liberties), money hungry (ticket/fine scams and other dirty practices) pigs. With IT, the brass has made them into dispensable scapegoats that slave away for meager salaries with the fear of being replaced in a heartbeat. Probably the only job that has retained any dignity are professors (to some extent), firefighters, and paramedics (and I'd say researchers, but they get misused too). But who knows, some anon might just come up and make a post with a reference to a firefighter scandal.
Does it make me a bad person if the first thought that crossed my mind when seeing this article was wondering how far the guy would fly if I pulled a trip wire the second he hit 360? Yea, I think so.
I personally use Comodo firewall, and it's one hell of delicate security guard. I have to turn it off when I install anything because I will be there all day clicking approve. It's not annoying when you know how to use it and change its settings (takes a nominal amount of time). I've had a lot of instances now when I even purposely download sketchy.exe files, and it alerts me right away about suspicious activity in the computer. Best of all it's free.
Also, there's this thing called content you may have heard of. More people does equal more results, and I think it is one of the most important aspects in the game (in fact a lot of games would have been better with it, like Fable 2, which was practically 6 hours long). Content is also an extremely important aspect of storyline, as a longer story is typically more interesting (obviously, that's not always the case).
I wouldn't doubt that they eventually use that as an excuse. Some idiots should have a license to breathe (which I would promptly reject and make the punishment for violation death by anal rape).
One of the most surefire way is to see if her gametes can play their respective roll. If they can manage to form a viable embryo from her egg, case closed. If not, some more testing would be needed. Also, a genetic advantage is the reason most athletes get the gold. If she has a rare/new trait, what are you going to do when a larger percentage of the population has it in the future? It's just as discriminatory to ban them now as it would be later. Especially if it's a naturally acquired trait.
Why did you use a Witch-Doctor to replace the necromancer? I can think of a million other ways to replace him. If you really want to be original, try to make a class that doesn't have a common English name. Call them Maj'kan and give them their own culture. Say that they were priests from the remnants of a civilization that was destroyed by the prime evils, and that they trained to travel to hell itself to bring them back. Then they can have the ability to summon stitched-together demons and they can even augment themselves with the corpses of demons. Also, they can have the ability to travel to their own pocket dimension in hell (an ability that is truly unique to the game). Even the barbarian could have been replaced with a Shaolin-monk type culture that bashes away just like the current barb. And the sorceress has not been replaced, only renamed. We're not buying that one.
I'd use my mod points on you, but since an AC doesn't really do much with karma, I'll go ahead and continue the rant.
SPOILERS
The getting rich aspect of the game sucked because of nothing to buy. You have about 4 sets of weapons to choose from if memory serves me correct. There's piss poor, decent, good, and hard-to-get. Pretty much the same with the clothes. If you want to get awesome weaponry, you need to entertain some demon doors (that look more like philosophy drop-outs than demons) *yawn*. They say that every action you do dictates how the world changes. It doesn't. One town looks according to your alignment and that's it. Your looks may change and people will welcome/run from you. Also, the combat system sucks. There are about 9 spells that change in magnitude, and all of them make you a sitting duck, and your attacks don't really go beyond your ordinary swing of the blade. All-in-all, I've seen more content and innovation in your run-of-the-mill Mario game. It's a good thing I rented it, because the game sucked. The last thing I have to complain about is no multiple saves, as well as a fun auto-save that doesn't allow you to see the alternate endings. Writing this post is more fun than that game.
I personally know people who have gone to the BM and they have no complaints over this. A friend of mine said she like the ability to paint her body and walk around in the nude without her dad seeing her in a Girls Gone Wild video. The burning man really is incredibly lenient about the amount of control they exert, but when you go in to blatantly exploit the population at their expense, you've crossed the line. The burning man is actually not about profit, and the 300$ that everyone whines about is nothing to the people that enjoy going there. They even see a percentage of it go back to them, because don't think there aren't any employees to ensure a good time, or activities that they provide (and who cares if they profit a bit). And if you take a look at they're office staff through google, you'll see they're not the suits you might expect them to be.
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Um, just because it's magical doesn't mean you have to explain it with magic. If something has an unexplained behavior, the logical course of action is to influence it and make deductions based on the outcome. You use conscience as an example. Well there are degrees of awareness you know. There are the moments of torpor that leave you with little of it, and there are the adrenalin pumping moments that leave a heightened sense of existence. So already we know of a way to manipulate this magic, so I'm sure as technology improves we will understand it better.
A funny question posed in a philosophy debate is how do you know you experience conscience? What if you only had some mechanism that was inferior to conscience similar to the way some people can detect more variations in light qualia?
Sooner or later, freenet will become more popular, and all searches for illegal downloads will become native to the client. And with the encryption that it offers, there will be no stopping people from getting what they want. Rather, the companies might wisen up and start giving incentives to buy, rather than treat their customers like scum.
Also, why is this under "Your Rights Online?" Nobody has a right to illegally download copyrighted materials.
Because the rights of illegal downloading is not in question, it's the right to host a site that tracks torrents. You see, as long as there is a site that legitimately hosts non-copyrighted material, there will be people who post torrents that contain other material. To the dismay of the record companies, there will never be an end to piracy, however, these sites should not be one to suffer. While you may compare this to government shutting down legitimate bars that happen to be a gathering place for criminals that sell illegal weapons, there is a difference. Imagine that these bars were magical, so that even a tiny bar would only have to have its name whispered to have vendors teleport their wares through that bar. Some are even in a magical untouchable plane (this would be similar to sites hosted out of jurisdiction). Going after the largest bar because it's very well known and mostly criminals use it wouldn't make much sense. All the criminals would go elsewhere and you'd have the same damn problem, until the evil warlocks responsible monopolize magic bars.
Then we would have to wait for a hero who can wield the sword of Gargatha to slay these evil warlocks. But there's a rumor that these evil warlocks have been killing virgins to gain immunity to the sword. I don't know what this would be analogous to but I though it would be fun to add.
There are so many reasons to pirate movies. They just gave us another.
Your post is incredibly relevant considering that the Mayan calendar simply starts over at that time rather than predicting the end. The Apocalyptic prediction from the calendar was simply speculation that arose from not knowing the language. There's not exactly a Mayan Rosetta Stone so even all that we know about the language is still premature.
Of course it's not by chance. The problem is nearly every communist revolution has started with a man who claims to be for the people (using communism as a rouse), then instantly becomes a dictator. It's too quick of a transition. The transition of British monarch to American government only went smooth because of a large group of forefathers that we were lucky enough to have. Did you know that George Washington's men wanted to have him become king? We were lucky enough that he disagreed, otherwise it would have all gone to shit.
Despite what evidence? You mean the conglomerate of dictators that declare to use a system that is entirely based on democracy? For the love of Christ go out and do some research. Go to Wikipedia and look up communism. Communism is closer to democracy than America is (the US is a constitutional republic, which is why it has more power over it's citizens rather than vice-versa). The whole point of communism is to disperse power as much as possible. Communism itself is a series of principles that makes it so only productive labor becomes an asset to a civilization. I always take a look a genius investment bankers and wonder how much progress we would have if they all dedicated themselves to science. Seriously, where do people think that money comes from? It's a fucking imaginary object that people go nuts over. No government has successfully implemented it because the theory is really unfinished, as are the means to accomplish it. I've daydreamed of a class system based completely on skill, in which scientists, inventors, and mathematicians are the highest class. Think about it. Without them we would be in the fucking stone age. No other accomplishment would make a damn difference in this world. Even systems of governing are based on philosophy and psychology, which is really science.
Just a quick bit of physics review: 1)A=V/t 2)d=.5*A*t^2 now substituting, we get d=.5*(V/t)*t^2=.5*V*t. The distance of the cannon is 1.1, the final velocity is 6, thus the time is about .37s. This would imply an acceleration of about 1670G. So the acceleration due to gravity is essentially multiplied thousands of times. Ever watch DBZ? Yea, well even Goku had a tough time with 100x gravity. Don't see how it will work with anything but raw materials. Any structural entity would be reduced to a density stratum.
although cultural references can sometimes give it away.
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I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make this claim if they didn't have some hard science to back it up. That's a lot of big organizations putting their reputation on the line, so I'm more worried about how much this battery will cost and how long is its lifetime, because if it is high and low respectively, then it's just as impractical as 200 mpc.
Actually, a high-tech modified zeppelin would be better, because you run the risk of your ship getting swarmed by zombie birds. Zeppelins can go much higher than birds can, but you might have to have a vegetarian diet. The zeppelin could divert the sunlight it receives into multiple growth decks, where the plants would sustain a small colony of people. You may wonder where the water comes from, but respiration actually generates water, so as long as you have a device that captures humidity and seal up the area, you should be good on water (a note to the less informed: the reason we need to intake water is because of the vast amounts of water vapor that we exhale, and some to urination and sweating as well). The whole place would pretty much be like a space station, however there would be one catch: they would all have to be females. The reason being that if we want to repopulate the earth, we need to have as little inbreeding as possible, and since sperm can be frozen, the variety yield can be much greater. Of course I would be the only exception, but I will sacrifice my ambitions of having a child during that time and use berth control, while teaching the rest of the women how to repopulate the old-fashion way.
Everybody knows that geeks want to be frozen until the day that they can be made into cyborgs
Well, I think by glory he means prestige. And quite frankly, it has gone out, and greed/incompetence has taken care of that. There was once a time where being a police man was a title of privilege and respect. Now the government has pushed laws that turn them into fat, power greedy (at the expense of civil liberties), money hungry (ticket/fine scams and other dirty practices) pigs. With IT, the brass has made them into dispensable scapegoats that slave away for meager salaries with the fear of being replaced in a heartbeat. Probably the only job that has retained any dignity are professors (to some extent), firefighters, and paramedics (and I'd say researchers, but they get misused too). But who knows, some anon might just come up and make a post with a reference to a firefighter scandal.
Does it make me a bad person if the first thought that crossed my mind when seeing this article was wondering how far the guy would fly if I pulled a trip wire the second he hit 360? Yea, I think so.
I'm assuming one of those perils is the assault/murder chargers associated with ramming something down anyone's throat.
Well, I do agree with what you have to say, but at least scum bucket organizations are easier to prosecute.
I personally use Comodo firewall, and it's one hell of delicate security guard. I have to turn it off when I install anything because I will be there all day clicking approve. It's not annoying when you know how to use it and change its settings (takes a nominal amount of time). I've had a lot of instances now when I even purposely download sketchy .exe files, and it alerts me right away about suspicious activity in the computer. Best of all it's free.
You only get to die once. Might as well die doing something you'd normally be to scared to try.
My favorite one that you mentioned would be skydiving, but I'd make sure I fall on top of some asshole.
Also, there's this thing called content you may have heard of. More people does equal more results, and I think it is one of the most important aspects in the game (in fact a lot of games would have been better with it, like Fable 2, which was practically 6 hours long). Content is also an extremely important aspect of storyline, as a longer story is typically more interesting (obviously, that's not always the case).
I wouldn't doubt that they eventually use that as an excuse. Some idiots should have a license to breathe (which I would promptly reject and make the punishment for violation death by anal rape).
Because I just came.
(before someone mods me as troll, note that I'm just stating how awesome this game is and you should RTFA)
One of the most surefire way is to see if her gametes can play their respective roll. If they can manage to form a viable embryo from her egg, case closed. If not, some more testing would be needed. Also, a genetic advantage is the reason most athletes get the gold. If she has a rare/new trait, what are you going to do when a larger percentage of the population has it in the future? It's just as discriminatory to ban them now as it would be later. Especially if it's a naturally acquired trait.
Why did you use a Witch-Doctor to replace the necromancer? I can think of a million other ways to replace him. If you really want to be original, try to make a class that doesn't have a common English name. Call them Maj'kan and give them their own culture. Say that they were priests from the remnants of a civilization that was destroyed by the prime evils, and that they trained to travel to hell itself to bring them back. Then they can have the ability to summon stitched-together demons and they can even augment themselves with the corpses of demons. Also, they can have the ability to travel to their own pocket dimension in hell (an ability that is truly unique to the game). Even the barbarian could have been replaced with a Shaolin-monk type culture that bashes away just like the current barb. And the sorceress has not been replaced, only renamed. We're not buying that one.
I'd use my mod points on you, but since an AC doesn't really do much with karma, I'll go ahead and continue the rant.
SPOILERS
The getting rich aspect of the game sucked because of nothing to buy. You have about 4 sets of weapons to choose from if memory serves me correct. There's piss poor, decent, good, and hard-to-get. Pretty much the same with the clothes. If you want to get awesome weaponry, you need to entertain some demon doors (that look more like philosophy drop-outs than demons) *yawn*. They say that every action you do dictates how the world changes. It doesn't. One town looks according to your alignment and that's it. Your looks may change and people will welcome/run from you. Also, the combat system sucks. There are about 9 spells that change in magnitude, and all of them make you a sitting duck, and your attacks don't really go beyond your ordinary swing of the blade. All-in-all, I've seen more content and innovation in your run-of-the-mill Mario game. It's a good thing I rented it, because the game sucked. The last thing I have to complain about is no multiple saves, as well as a fun auto-save that doesn't allow you to see the alternate endings. Writing this post is more fun than that game.
I personally know people who have gone to the BM and they have no complaints over this. A friend of mine said she like the ability to paint her body and walk around in the nude without her dad seeing her in a Girls Gone Wild video. The burning man really is incredibly lenient about the amount of control they exert, but when you go in to blatantly exploit the population at their expense, you've crossed the line. The burning man is actually not about profit, and the 300$ that everyone whines about is nothing to the people that enjoy going there. They even see a percentage of it go back to them, because don't think there aren't any employees to ensure a good time, or activities that they provide (and who cares if they profit a bit). And if you take a look at they're office staff through google, you'll see they're not the suits you might expect them to be.