Ender didn't set out to kill Bonzo, but he did want to completely remove him as a threat.
What you miss, understandably, is that Ender may not have even *known* that he wanted to kill Bonzo because it was so utterly programmed into him. We can only fully realize it by listening in on some conversations of those who did the programming; but we can glimpse it in Ender's "victory without mercy" attitude that he took to every fight.
Yes, every fight. Ender always fought to the complete defeat of his opponent, he never left a fight half-finished even if the odds were hopeless. That's the only reason that Earth won the war of invasion!
Blasphemy. This is one of the best television seasons for quality shows that I can remember!
Two words: Battlestar Galactica.
It is (coming from a rapid Firefly fanboy) so much better on every level except comedic. Not even going out on a limb I will say that it's the best science fiction show that I have ever seen on TV. That includes all flavors of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Space: Above and Beyond, Clone Wars, Farscape, and a bunch of other shows whose quality is less than or equal to Earth2 that I won't mention. I'll actually go out on a slight limb and declare that it's best science fiction that I've ever seen in any moving picture form. Anyway, rent or buy the first season and be blown away.
Other than that: Veronica Mars. My Name is Earl (almost as funny as...). Arrested Development. Rome. Supernatural is fun. The Amazing Race is always good for a laugh. Family Guy.
C'mon. You can practically throw random darts at the tv schedule and find a great show.
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Why? I can explain the current state of our universe with micro-evolution, and explain it in such a way that I would provide *useful* *testable* theories about the universe and its makeup.
If I were to wave my hands and say, "God did it." I would come up with no theories, nothing testable, nothing useful.
God gave me a brain and gave me one commandment, "Understand." Saying that he designed the universe is pointless.
If I want to analyze and study a building, I wouldn't declare "C. H. Smith was the architect." and be done with it.
Okay here's one for you: explain the eye. It either works or it doesn't.
False. Eyes can work partially, as yours and mine do when compared to those of an bird or feline or insect. Birds can see into the ultraviolet and with much greater sharpness than we can imagine. Cats can see excellently in darkness we would find blinding. Insects (and birds) actually perceive time differently than we do. What looks fast to us (say the frames of a motion picture blending into one continuous picture) they can see as separate states (frame, black, frame, black, frame, black). While we think that our fly swatter is moving too fast to see, a fly (generally) has plenty of time to see it and move.
There is no evolutionary intermediate form that would function so how could it have evolved?
There are hundreds of intermediate forms that we have cataloged and described. Do some research and you will be amazed. One could argue that our eye is a lesser form of others.
You see, evolution is not a progression to greater and greater abilities; but a reaction to environmental stress. In short, we don't have night vision, rapid time perception, ultaviolet or infrared sight because our ancestors didn't need it. We developed big huge brains instead, so we could analyze and exploit the world to our needs.
Would you be comfortable with the Hindu or Buddhist worldviews being taught in a biology class? They are both older and practiced by more people than Christianity.
Many people believe we are manifestations of the same consciousness and that this world is a dream that you must strive to wake up from (Hindu/Buddhism). If you aren't comfortable with that being taught in biology class, then Judaic dogma has no place there either.
Deciding on where to draw the line on what religious worldviews to include is exactly why we have decided to leave religion to the parents, and the explanation of the world as our minds understand it to scientific education.
Intelligent design isn't science because it isn't provable. It's an interesting interpretation of the state of the universe, but it answers exactly zero questions about it.
The people who are rabidly against the concept of intelligent design are nothing more than arrogant freaks who declare that man may be able to build evolving life in the lab but nobody else in the universe has ever been able to do so, nor ever will
Well since we and everything else in the universe are all incarnations of the dreaming god mind, obviously no one else in the universe will be able to create the universe because there is no one else in the universe!
all would have to die using the "I'll jump over you and stab you at the exact same place". And I wouldn't do it 'cause it was the easiest way to kill'em, it would be the ONLY way to kill'em.
Speed kills aren't the *only* way to kill an opponent.
Wow. We certainly played entirely different games. Too bad for you.:-D
I liked the wushu-ish "stand on one hand while twirling the sword with the other, while kicking two other enemies at the same time" move. But the double-blade decapitation (usually deliciously done in slow-mo) was a close second.
How about the vertical wall run (with two swords) where the prince flips off and twirls back down as a metallic vortex of death and dismemberment?
Or the weapon steal where you kill the enemy with their *own weapon*? (bonus if its an axe and you use it to cut them in half at the waist)
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So play it on a game console.
It's kind of exactly what they were designed for.
Yes. It is hard to remember to read the manual.
:-/
Must the user be hand-held every step of the way now?
Wow, what he said.
:-)
A mathematically reasonable description of why I get bored with crosswords.
Headphones are what you seek.
One can only play Hangman four to five times before boredom sets in.
Tic-tac-toe is amusing two or three times.
Crossword puzzles are only entertaining for a maximum of 1.3 hours.
Video games can be entertaining for 20+ hours straight.
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Lame!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/08
Ender didn't set out to kill Bonzo, but he did want to completely remove him as a threat.
What you miss, understandably, is that Ender may not have even *known* that he wanted to kill Bonzo because it was so utterly programmed into him. We can only fully realize it by listening in on some conversations of those who did the programming; but we can glimpse it in Ender's "victory without mercy" attitude that he took to every fight.
Yes, every fight. Ender always fought to the complete defeat of his opponent, he never left a fight half-finished even if the odds were hopeless. That's the only reason that Earth won the war of invasion!
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http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
What series had flying motorcycles? Wasn't that the third incarnation of the US Robotech? I have no idea what anime that was originally.
Yes, which is titled: Battlestar Galactica.
I know who Lorne Green is. I don't know why he's in your head. Edward James Olmos is hands down superior.
I guess this could be a Kirk vs. Picard deal, only...Adama vs. Adama?
Blasphemy. This is one of the best television seasons for quality shows that I can remember!
Two words: Battlestar Galactica.
It is (coming from a rapid Firefly fanboy) so much better on every level except comedic. Not even going out on a limb I will say that it's the best science fiction show that I have ever seen on TV. That includes all flavors of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Space: Above and Beyond, Clone Wars, Farscape, and a bunch of other shows whose quality is less than or equal to Earth2 that I won't mention. I'll actually go out on a slight limb and declare that it's best science fiction that I've ever seen in any moving picture form. Anyway, rent or buy the first season and be blown away.
Other than that: Veronica Mars. My Name is Earl (almost as funny as...). Arrested Development. Rome. Supernatural is fun. The Amazing Race is always good for a laugh. Family Guy.
C'mon. You can practically throw random darts at the tv schedule and find a great show.
Guess I should have indicated that this was a quote from the wikipedia autobiography policy page, eh?
Beg all you want, the hack is unimpressive even with the hanging pipe.
Check out the best of gallery: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html
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Construction paper on the wall. Speed runs on a tv screen. This is definitely not an "A Squad" MIT hack.
See more and better here: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/
Jurassic Bark. :-(
Why? I can explain the current state of our universe with micro-evolution, and explain it in such a way that I would provide *useful* *testable* theories about the universe and its makeup.
If I were to wave my hands and say, "God did it." I would come up with no theories, nothing testable, nothing useful.
God gave me a brain and gave me one commandment, "Understand." Saying that he designed the universe is pointless.
If I want to analyze and study a building, I wouldn't declare "C. H. Smith was the architect." and be done with it.
Okay here's one for you: explain the eye. It either works or it doesn't.
False. Eyes can work partially, as yours and mine do when compared to those of an bird or feline or insect. Birds can see into the ultraviolet and with much greater sharpness than we can imagine. Cats can see excellently in darkness we would find blinding. Insects (and birds) actually perceive time differently than we do. What looks fast to us (say the frames of a motion picture blending into one continuous picture) they can see as separate states (frame, black, frame, black, frame, black). While we think that our fly swatter is moving too fast to see, a fly (generally) has plenty of time to see it and move.
There is no evolutionary intermediate form that would function so how could it have evolved?
There are hundreds of intermediate forms that we have cataloged and described. Do some research and you will be amazed. One could argue that our eye is a lesser form of others.
You see, evolution is not a progression to greater and greater abilities; but a reaction to environmental stress. In short, we don't have night vision, rapid time perception, ultaviolet or infrared sight because our ancestors didn't need it. We developed big huge brains instead, so we could analyze and exploit the world to our needs.
Would you be comfortable with the Hindu or Buddhist worldviews being taught in a biology class? They are both older and practiced by more people than Christianity.
Many people believe we are manifestations of the same consciousness and that this world is a dream that you must strive to wake up from (Hindu/Buddhism). If you aren't comfortable with that being taught in biology class, then Judaic dogma has no place there either.
Deciding on where to draw the line on what religious worldviews to include is exactly why we have decided to leave religion to the parents, and the explanation of the world as our minds understand it to scientific education.
Intelligent design isn't science because it isn't provable. It's an interesting interpretation of the state of the universe, but it answers exactly zero questions about it.
The people who are rabidly against the concept of intelligent design are nothing more than arrogant freaks who declare that man may be able to build evolving life in the lab but nobody else in the universe has ever been able to do so, nor ever will
Well since we and everything else in the universe are all incarnations of the dreaming god mind, obviously no one else in the universe will be able to create the universe because there is no one else in the universe!
You may find http://www.regular-expressions.info/ helpful. Adblock supports regex strings. I yearn for the day when a search engine does as well.
"Glomit"
all would have to die using the "I'll jump over you and stab you at the exact same place". And I wouldn't do it 'cause it was the easiest way to kill'em, it would be the ONLY way to kill'em.
Speed kills aren't the *only* way to kill an opponent.
Nice, but the finest example of that particular crap is Diablo which is PC only :-)
Wow. We certainly played entirely different games. Too bad for you. :-D
I liked the wushu-ish "stand on one hand while twirling the sword with the other, while kicking two other enemies at the same time" move. But the double-blade decapitation (usually deliciously done in slow-mo) was a close second.
How about the vertical wall run (with two swords) where the prince flips off and twirls back down as a metallic vortex of death and dismemberment?
Or the weapon steal where you kill the enemy with their *own weapon*? (bonus if its an axe and you use it to cut them in half at the waist)