I stole a great trick off my friend that means you don't have to move your keyboard hand. Started using it with HalfLife, no shooter since (that I've played) has made it impossible.
Simply map everything to the nice big numpad with all its extra keys around the outside. Plenty of keys, all the functionality, and you never need to move your hand across to press "G", and it's easy to remember where the keys are once you've mapped them to your liking.
The one drawback is that you have to shove your keyboard about a foot to the left. Which can sometimes be awkward, on a small desk.
Sci-fi, science fiction, SF, IT DOESN'T MATTER. If you care about this, or about Trekkies/Trekkers, or anything similar, you are an intellectual WANKER. FFS. End. This. Now.
You ignorant eejit! China was a terrible fucking hell-nasty dictatorship way back in 1955, when it first invaded Tibet. It's gotten much better since then, but it's still authoritarian. Read some goddamn history. A lot of people in China are working, against the massive inertia of officialdom, to bring freedom to their country while maintaining some level of order. They do not need American bullshit right now. They need some sophisticated friends, not the people who treated Iraq like it was one big military base.
>Faerie tales like to talk about knowing someone's true name as being power, there's also the idea of >the magic talisman that is the key to a monster or wizard's power and thus his ruin. Well, you'll >end up having a real world comparison of that here: knowing who that person really is will be true >power, knowing where they live means you can also kill them.
Or knowing their root password etc... You have to read Vernor Vinge's True Names. It will blow your mind.
Goddamnit, revolution is NOT A RIGHT. Ben Franklin would spit on your dog, sir.
Revolution is a citizen's RESPONSIBILITY when the government becomes a tyranny, and there are no rights for ANYONE until the citizens take it upon themselves to enforce those rights.
You forgot Afghanistan, as well as the operations that the US performs for the Colombian government.
However, US military power also operates via the CIA. Chile (Pinochet), Argentina (Videla), Iran (the Shah), Bolivia, and Brazil have all had popularly-elected left-leaning governments overthrown by CIA-funded, CIA-armed right-wing puppets, who almost always became brutal dictators who depend/ed on US weapons and money to keep the people in line.
I'm not mentioning the communist dictatorships that were overthrown by US influence, since a) there's not many of them (although the Orange Revolutions are an interesting new development), and b) overthrowing a communist dictatorship is a good thing, usually.
A lobby group that wants a more equitable distribution of bias across the court system would kill for this software; it allows them to point fingers at specific instances of bias and work the system armed with complete information.
So, while the black hats gain momentarily from this software, eventually there will be less of an advantage in choosing a specific court, since it is likely the most egregious examples will be dealt with.
"Why would intellifenge life in the Mily Way have to be smarter than us."
"IIRC, centripital acceleration slowly pushes stars out from the center towards the edge. The Milky Way is approximately 10,000 lightyears thick at the edge and 30,000 light years think in the centre."
"Since we have an even distribution of stars, that means intelligent life will happen once every 85 million light years."
I think this post itself embodies the answer to its first sentence.
Take a look at Dark Life, and think about the possibilities.
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If the appropriate British intelligence agency wanted to cause any terrorists that might have the capability of building a bomb to irradiate themselves, this might be a good way.
The faulty instructions could also, more likely, cause an accident in the facilities they're using. This might be visible from orbit or just from the general area.
Disinformation for terrorists who already have uranium?
The problem is, we usually don't know which species are the important ones until they are gone.
And who'd have thought that you could find disease cures or amazingly advanced painkillers in rainforest plants?
Biodiversity is one of the most valuable resources humans have, and we're burning it. Like burning the library of Alexandria, but a thousand times worse.
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Spoken like a punter who has never played Guitar Hero.
I stole a great trick off my friend that means you don't have to move your keyboard hand. Started using it with HalfLife, no shooter since (that I've played) has made it impossible.
Simply map everything to the nice big numpad with all its extra keys around the outside. Plenty of keys, all the functionality, and you never need to move your hand across to press "G", and it's easy to remember where the keys are once you've mapped them to your liking.
The one drawback is that you have to shove your keyboard about a foot to the left. Which can sometimes be awkward, on a small desk.
Kudos to you, sir. You pick your battles well.
Now, for mis-spelling damnit, I'll have to take your eyes. You understand.
And don't forget to take that Beagle 2 the vet, he keeps crashing into things for no good reason...
I would class the Vorkosigan series as military sf, rather than space opera. However, I agree that it is an absolutely brilliant series.
All warships are eclipsed by the good ship "Killing Time".
Sci-fi, science fiction, SF, IT DOESN'T MATTER. If you care about this, or about Trekkies/Trekkers, or anything similar, you are an intellectual WANKER. FFS. End. This. Now.
Uh, sound?
Where's the $500 22 inch LCD? Sure, you can buy a smaller one, but your console-playing friends will laugh at you.
NEVER FORGET THE MONITOR. YOU NEED IT TO SEE THE PRETTY LIGHTS.
You ignorant eejit! China was a terrible fucking hell-nasty dictatorship way back in 1955, when it first invaded Tibet. It's gotten much better since then, but it's still authoritarian. Read some goddamn history. A lot of people in China are working, against the massive inertia of officialdom, to bring freedom to their country while maintaining some level of order. They do not need American bullshit right now. They need some sophisticated friends, not the people who treated Iraq like it was one big military base.
>Faerie tales like to talk about knowing someone's true name as being power, there's also the idea of >the magic talisman that is the key to a monster or wizard's power and thus his ruin. Well, you'll >end up having a real world comparison of that here: knowing who that person really is will be true >power, knowing where they live means you can also kill them.
Or knowing their root password etc... You have to read Vernor Vinge's True Names. It will blow your mind.
Mecha-Thompson, angrily standing up in future-court: "I AM THE LAW!"
Professional bureaucrats don't have ideals, they have procedures. If those fail, then... wait, procedures can't fail! Carry on. ^_^
Goddamnit, revolution is NOT A RIGHT. Ben Franklin would spit on your dog, sir.
Revolution is a citizen's RESPONSIBILITY when the government becomes a tyranny, and there are no rights for ANYONE until the citizens take it upon themselves to enforce those rights.
>(Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq - hardly an empire)
You forgot Afghanistan, as well as the operations that the US performs for the Colombian government.
However, US military power also operates via the CIA. Chile (Pinochet), Argentina (Videla), Iran (the Shah), Bolivia, and Brazil have all had popularly-elected left-leaning governments overthrown by CIA-funded, CIA-armed right-wing puppets, who almost always became brutal dictators who depend/ed on US weapons and money to keep the people in line.
I'm not mentioning the communist dictatorships that were overthrown by US influence, since a) there's not many of them (although the Orange Revolutions are an interesting new development), and b) overthrowing a communist dictatorship is a good thing, usually.
A lobby group that wants a more equitable distribution of bias across the court system would kill for this software; it allows them to point fingers at specific instances of bias and work the system armed with complete information.
So, while the black hats gain momentarily from this software, eventually there will be less of an advantage in choosing a specific court, since it is likely the most egregious examples will be dealt with.
We have no hurricanes, this is true. No hurricane has ever even come close to the Australian mainland, not one.
We do, however, have cyclones, which are these large, spiral-shaped storms with high winds and... you've heard of them? Bloody hell.
Imagine the kind of weapons we'll have in the future. /me imagines videos of small machines destroying DNA :((
"Why would intellifenge life in the Mily Way have to be smarter than us."
"IIRC, centripital acceleration slowly pushes stars out from the center towards the edge. The Milky Way is approximately 10,000 lightyears thick at the edge and 30,000 light years think in the centre."
"Since we have an even distribution of stars, that means intelligent life will happen once every 85 million light years."
I think this post itself embodies the answer to its first sentence.
No sweatshop?
Take a look at Dark Life, and think about the possibilities.
If the appropriate British intelligence agency wanted to cause any terrorists that might have the capability of building a bomb to irradiate themselves, this might be a good way.
The faulty instructions could also, more likely, cause an accident in the facilities they're using. This might be visible from orbit or just from the general area.
Disinformation for terrorists who already have uranium?
The problem is, we usually don't know which species are the important ones until they are gone.
And who'd have thought that you could find disease cures or amazingly advanced painkillers in rainforest plants?
Biodiversity is one of the most valuable resources humans have, and we're burning it. Like burning the library of Alexandria, but a thousand times worse.
So did Firefly.
Awesome. Thanks for pointing that out, I need to read more closely. :)
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