I was always mainly invulnerable... for practical purposes. Had people 3 times my size wail on me in school... these days i still get hit by cars going a decent 20-30mph and shrug it off (look I'm impatient sometimes ok?). People just have trouble hurting me. A few hard swings with a baseball bat to the temple, or something pointy, yeah; but I can block a metal pipe with my freaking forearm, and take it to the chest or abs without much more than just minimal pain (mainly annoyance).
Did you really just write this?
My god, who knew slashdot was filled with such hard-bitten, tough-as-nails, street-brawlin double-flushers?
"Once it becomes as easy and satisfying to view a YouTube video on your 50-inch television as it is to watch "Two and a Half Men,"
I don't know... Two and a Half Men... That's a pretty high bar as far as satisfaction is concerned.
I'm going to start a business called TextMonkey where you can text your questions to a team of monkeys (texting charges may apply) and the monkeys will respond promptly with an answer from the monkey perspective. It's quicker than a web search.
So we can conclude that mobile phones can potentially reduce your life expectancy, just like almost anything.
Actually I think a study showing the chances of getting hit by a car compared to getting cancer from your cell phone might prove interesting.
None of this computes. Stating that mobile phones can "potentially" reduce your life expectancy isn't a conclusion, it's rephrasing the question that the study set out to answer.
As for your second paragraph, the answer to the initial question would need to be "yes" for that sort of comparison to be done.
Look I know it's cool to be a pretentious indie games faggot and everything, but seriously, Modern Warfare 2 was one of the best single player first person shooters of the last decade. It was like playing Red Dawn. Don't lump it in with generic pieces of shit like Halo and Gears of War, TIA.
Both of you, just fucking stop. Overpopulation is not the worlds most pressing problem. Its just a pretext for racists to claim that 'breeds' too much. Never 'has children' of course because these people are sub-human to you guys. Ignorant, racist fucks.
Amen. Probably racist, at the very least classist. It makes a great springboard from which to say something like "don't have children if you live in a third world country, DUH!"
The problem, of course, is that reproduction is essentially the meaning of life. Not that everyone opts to do it, or is able to, but it's still pretty hard to suppress that kind of biological imperative.
This is one of my pet peeves.
A steep learning curve refers to something that is quickly learned, as the curve that represents knowledge over time would indeed be steep in that case.
Something difficult would have a shallow learning curve, not a steep one.
I dunno, I think it really broke down because most of the population is woefully stupid and should, under no circumstances, actually be allowed to participate in the Democratic process. But they do.
My biggest problem with IE is the resource utilization. It seems pretty absurd to me. I have 4 tabs open right now, nothing terribly intensive, and it's eating up 168MB.
I'm not very well-versed in online music sales. Is there a problem with Amazon.coms MP3 service? I've been buying music from them for the past couple years because I hated itunes, and I've never looked back. They deliver the music in Mp3 format, you can move them around without issue, etc...
That would be the most hysterical prank ever, if the Japanese robot went and uprooted our flag.
Seriously, Americans would be calling for another war with Japan. I can see Glenn Beck now.
Or much less. In many cases the person who cleans your plane after a flight is paid considerably more than the person who just flew your plane to its destination. I kid you not.
I know, I'm friends with a regional pilot. His compensation is appalling.
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Mass Effect: Mining Hard with the Shep
"Commander, large deposit of element zero showing up on scanners."
"Launch probe."
*brrrriiiiiiiiiiing*
"Commander, we're detecting reasonable quantities of platinum in this region."
"Send a probe."
"Aye aye."
*brrrriiiiiiiiiiing*
"Commander, it looks like we've got a region here with large amounts of both element zero and platinum."
" Launch that motherfucking proooooooobe. "
*roll credits*
And each killzone is the size of 112.7 Library of Congresses.
I was always mainly invulnerable... for practical purposes. Had people 3 times my size wail on me in school... these days i still get hit by cars going a decent 20-30mph and shrug it off (look I'm impatient sometimes ok?). People just have trouble hurting me. A few hard swings with a baseball bat to the temple, or something pointy, yeah; but I can block a metal pipe with my freaking forearm, and take it to the chest or abs without much more than just minimal pain (mainly annoyance).
Did you really just write this?
My god, who knew slashdot was filled with such hard-bitten, tough-as-nails, street-brawlin double-flushers?
"Once it becomes as easy and satisfying to view a YouTube video on your 50-inch television as it is to watch "Two and a Half Men," I don't know... Two and a Half Men... That's a pretty high bar as far as satisfaction is concerned.
As an young man in my 40's,
Okay brah, you're really stretching the definition of young man.
Do we have a good handle yet on exactly how many cubic acres of oil are being spilled per week?
I'm going to start a business called TextMonkey where you can text your questions to a team of monkeys (texting charges may apply) and the monkeys will respond promptly with an answer from the monkey perspective. It's quicker than a web search.
So we can conclude that mobile phones can potentially reduce your life expectancy, just like almost anything.
Actually I think a study showing the chances of getting hit by a car compared to getting cancer from your cell phone might prove interesting.
None of this computes. Stating that mobile phones can "potentially" reduce your life expectancy isn't a conclusion, it's rephrasing the question that the study set out to answer.
As for your second paragraph, the answer to the initial question would need to be "yes" for that sort of comparison to be done.
Look I know it's cool to be a pretentious indie games faggot and everything, but seriously, Modern Warfare 2 was one of the best single player first person shooters of the last decade. It was like playing Red Dawn. Don't lump it in with generic pieces of shit like Halo and Gears of War, TIA.
This whole unit conversion gimmick really should have gotten old by now, but surprisingly, I'm still laughing.
Both of you, just fucking stop. Overpopulation is not the worlds most pressing problem. Its just a pretext for racists to claim that 'breeds' too much. Never 'has children' of course because these people are sub-human to you guys. Ignorant, racist fucks.
Amen. Probably racist, at the very least classist. It makes a great springboard from which to say something like "don't have children if you live in a third world country, DUH!" The problem, of course, is that reproduction is essentially the meaning of life. Not that everyone opts to do it, or is able to, but it's still pretty hard to suppress that kind of biological imperative.
This is one of my pet peeves. A steep learning curve refers to something that is quickly learned, as the curve that represents knowledge over time would indeed be steep in that case. Something difficult would have a shallow learning curve, not a steep one.
An exponential learning curve.
Some people have trouble coming up with a mental conception of a distance as large as 9.6 billion light-years. I have a simple trick I use.
Imagine a (chocolate) birthday cake that is 12 inches tall.
Stack 5,280 of those on top of each other.
Then, take the mega-cake and slice it 5.87849981 × 10^12 times. Stack each slice on top of the previous one.
Then, reslice the stacked slice another 9.6 billion times, adding each subsequent micro-slice to the stack.
And there you have it.
I dunno, I think it really broke down because most of the population is woefully stupid and should, under no circumstances, actually be allowed to participate in the Democratic process. But they do.
in the same way Lord Foul's Bane and Ringworld are not fungible
What if you made a Dyson Sphere out of white gold?
My biggest problem with IE is the resource utilization. It seems pretty absurd to me. I have 4 tabs open right now, nothing terribly intensive, and it's eating up 168MB.
I'm one of those weirdos that actually prefers WMP over itunes. But the Zune player software is an abomination, and I'd take itunes over that.
I'm not very well-versed in online music sales. Is there a problem with Amazon.coms MP3 service? I've been buying music from them for the past couple years because I hated itunes, and I've never looked back. They deliver the music in Mp3 format, you can move them around without issue, etc...
It really should support LAN play. But I preordered it anyway because Blizzard is one of the last good game studios around.
as Master Chief in first-person against little dwarves armed with Molotov cocktails.
That would be the most hysterical prank ever, if the Japanese robot went and uprooted our flag. Seriously, Americans would be calling for another war with Japan. I can see Glenn Beck now.
Or much less. In many cases the person who cleans your plane after a flight is paid considerably more than the person who just flew your plane to its destination. I kid you not.
I know, I'm friends with a regional pilot. His compensation is appalling.
They get paid about as much as a McDonalds restaurant manager.
on games which go to draconic lenghts to prevent piracy
From snout to tail?
I discovered Krusnikov's Virus No-Having 2007 over three years ago and it's been running in my system tray ever since, without issue.