Yes, good, good, you got it! You got the joke! Good job! Haha! Who's laughing now? You sure showed all those folks who called you "slow" or "differently abled," didn't you? No one can spot a joke like you, that's for sure.
I think most people know the Mossad does not go after spammers, but they are about the baddest mofos that still squeak by in the "good guys" category. We can dream, can't we?
Unfortunately, he's technically almost correct here. Characters are modelled nude, and seperate clothing is added over the nude models. The developers included some "code," a program used to make mods. Players can use this "code" to "unlock" the naked character models. It's a mod, but it's not a mod that adds content, which is what he's trying to say.
Considering just the height, at five feet per day it would take less than a year to make up the approximately 1,000 feet of vertical height lost. But it's not just the height, half the damn mountain slid away. My guess is it will take a long time to fill in the crater left behind.
Apparantly Ape Cave is only three miles long, not five, according to wikipedia, which is never, ever wrong. But it is still the third longest lava tube in the US. Must have seemed bigger when I was eleven.
Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.
It was on a Sunday if I recall (I was all of 9 years old)and I slept right through it. Some people claimed they could hear it, and you could see a funny shaped cloud on the horizon if you squinted real hard. I kept waiting for the predicted ash fall, but it never got as far as Seattle.
I visited the mountain some years later, and I can't begin to describe how small I felt looking at the devestation. Miles and miles of forests flattened, all the trees lined up in the same direction, following the contours of the hills. Everything coated in a layer of fine ash. Scary, in a "look how freakin' insignificant you are" kinda way.
If you ever go, be sure to bring a lantern and visit Ape Caves, a 5 mile long lava tube near the base of the mountain. It's an easy hike even if you've never been in a cave before, and unlike most caves the sole improvement is a rickety metal staircase leading down in the middle. You can hike 2.5 miles up and exit out where it collapsed, and/or hike 2.5 miles down and it gets really narrow and stops. (By "up" and "down" I just mean the thing runs down the side of the mountain, so one end is higher than the other, not that it goes straight up and down.)
As for this latest development, 5 feet per day?! Wow, that's pretty dang fast. I'd heard a new lava dome was growing, but this speed is certainly a new develpment. Still, it will take a long time to get back to its former size. Over 1,000 vertical feet of mountain got blown off the top, and most of one side slid away.
Care to name a theme that hasn't been used about a bazallion times since the invention of storytelling? There are only 36 plots. Nothing new under the sun, son.
I for one found this informative. The summary and article use the terms gobbledygook. Sure, it's not entirely on topic, but I find the etymology interesting, and a case can be made that it is on topic, as it was a politician who originally invented the phrase.
If you really must mod someone offtopic, go ahead and mod me down. I've got karma to burn.
If an economic system is Pareto efficient, then it is the case that no individual can be made better off without another being made worse off.
Or this one?
Many undesirable systems are Pareto efficient. For example, a dictatorship where the dictator gets every resource is Pareto efficient because any redistribution would decrease the wealth of the dictator.
From the wikpedia article: A strongly Pareto optimal (SPO) allocation (X) is one for which there cannot be any other feasible allocation (say X') such that the allocation (X') is strictly preferred by at least one person, and weakly preferred by everyone else. A weakly Pareto optimal (WPO) allocation is one where a feasible reallocation would be strictly preferred by all agents.
A key drawback of Pareto optimality is its localization. In an economic system with millions of variables there can be very many Local optimum points. The Pareto improvement criterion does not even define any Global optimum. Under a reasonable criterion, many Pareto-optimal solutions may be far inferior to the global solution.
Maybe wiki has it wrong, maybe I'm not reading that right, but it seems to support my conclusion, at least for the strong case.
Wow, I guess that's why its a well known secret in the gaming industry that poeple buy GURPS books to read, not play. Although, admittedly, that probably applies more to world sourcebooks than basic rulebooks. In defense of the basic rulebooks, they are a much better read in 4th edition.
Except most of that infrastructure was paid for with our tax dollars. And you forgot to address the part about the contract. They signed a contract when we let them use the right of way, stating that we have the right to regulate their usage in return for us letting them use it. We do have the right to enforce that contract, don't we?
Pareto efficiency seems to be a method for defending the status quo, i.e. we can't make any changes that would make anyone less happy. I mean, I see it's a usefull concept, but it seems to ignore the possiblity that maybe some greedy fuckers deserve to be made a little less happy so the rest of us can be a little more happy.
But I'm just a mutant commie traitor, what do I know?
I'm sorry, but that comment just proves you don't know shit about parenting. My parents never fucked with me, lied to me, or abused my trust and I never had any reason to hide things from them. You can, in fact, have good relations with teenage kids, you just have to start building that trust early.
Groupthink, really? Could you please tell me what the groupthink here is, exactly? Because from what I can tell it changes from day to day based on who has the mod points.
Oh wait, you meant groupthink as in "anyone who disagrees with me." Gotcha.
Well, I disagree and I would disagree if you made that comment about any game system. Game systems are all boring, if you sit down and read them. In this regard, GURPS is actually the least boring.
Games themselves can be boring, but that is invariably the fault of the GM, the players, or the person who wrote the particular adventure. I can GM a game with no frickin' rules and no preparation, just making shit up off the top of my head and it will be exciting, because I have an imagination and a head stuffed full of fantasy and sci fi plotlines.
Well, I did admit to being in a fanboyish mood when I wrote that, so you have every right to criticise. Let me clarify. I think GURPS has the best balance between clarity, simplicity, realism, and playability.
What happened to your original account? Did you trash your karma that quick? Maybe you should try listening to people who know more than you and refrain from ad hominem attacks. Actually, looking at the account history on both, you are doing better on the last point now. Just try not to come off so cocky and ocassionally admit when you are wrong and you'll do fine.
It's okay, nobody can be right all the time and no one is an expert in every subject. I'm guessing you are a pretty smart guy, and not too used to dealing with other people as smart or smarter than you. Sure, there are a lot of dumb-asses here, but there are a lot of really smart, well informed people here, too.
An occasional rant is fine (see my rant about you, in response to cpt kangarooski) but every now and then you gotta try to be nice (like I'm doing here. After reading some of your more recent comments I've decided you aren't a hopeless case after all.)
All I can say is, when I stopped thinking I was right all the time, and everyone who disagreed with me was an idiot, I started learning more. When I learned to back down and admit I was wrong, I started making more friends. When I learned how to have a dialogue with people who disagree with me, I found that they didn't disagree with me about everything, and I found that I either strengthened my own arguments or (*GASP*) modified my own opinions.
Oh, and Tuesday is Troll day, so the advice above doesn't apply. You can go hog-wild and post any crazy diatribe you want. You'll still be modded down, most likely, but us old-timers won't hold it against you.;-)
Sorry, Cpt. but you are wasting your time. This newb has a history of unbelievable pig-headedness, came riding into/. on his high horse with cotton in his ears, killed the horse and hasn't stopped beating it since. It's so bad he had to create a whole new account, GuloGulo2 when he trashed the karma on his original account.
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Yes, good, good, you got it! You got the joke! Good job! Haha! Who's laughing now? You sure showed all those folks who called you "slow" or "differently abled," didn't you? No one can spot a joke like you, that's for sure.
I think most people know the Mossad does not go after spammers, but they are about the baddest mofos that still squeak by in the "good guys" category. We can dream, can't we?
How about the Pentup? Maybe the Pentis? The Pennanteller?
Unfortunately, he's technically almost correct here. Characters are modelled nude, and seperate clothing is added over the nude models. The developers included some "code," a program used to make mods. Players can use this "code" to "unlock" the naked character models. It's a mod, but it's not a mod that adds content, which is what he's trying to say.
Considering just the height, at five feet per day it would take less than a year to make up the approximately 1,000 feet of vertical height lost. But it's not just the height, half the damn mountain slid away. My guess is it will take a long time to fill in the crater left behind.
Apparantly Ape Cave is only three miles long, not five, according to wikipedia, which is never, ever wrong. But it is still the third longest lava tube in the US. Must have seemed bigger when I was eleven.
Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite.
It was on a Sunday if I recall (I was all of 9 years old)and I slept right through it. Some people claimed they could hear it, and you could see a funny shaped cloud on the horizon if you squinted real hard. I kept waiting for the predicted ash fall, but it never got as far as Seattle.
I visited the mountain some years later, and I can't begin to describe how small I felt looking at the devestation. Miles and miles of forests flattened, all the trees lined up in the same direction, following the contours of the hills. Everything coated in a layer of fine ash. Scary, in a "look how freakin' insignificant you are" kinda way.
If you ever go, be sure to bring a lantern and visit Ape Caves, a 5 mile long lava tube near the base of the mountain. It's an easy hike even if you've never been in a cave before, and unlike most caves the sole improvement is a rickety metal staircase leading down in the middle. You can hike 2.5 miles up and exit out where it collapsed, and/or hike 2.5 miles down and it gets really narrow and stops. (By "up" and "down" I just mean the thing runs down the side of the mountain, so one end is higher than the other, not that it goes straight up and down.)
As for this latest development, 5 feet per day?! Wow, that's pretty dang fast. I'd heard a new lava dome was growing, but this speed is certainly a new develpment. Still, it will take a long time to get back to its former size. Over 1,000 vertical feet of mountain got blown off the top, and most of one side slid away.
Care to name a theme that hasn't been used about a bazallion times since the invention of storytelling? There are only 36 plots. Nothing new under the sun, son.
I for one found this informative. The summary and article use the terms gobbledygook. Sure, it's not entirely on topic, but I find the etymology interesting, and a case can be made that it is on topic, as it was a politician who originally invented the phrase.
If you really must mod someone offtopic, go ahead and mod me down. I've got karma to burn.
Having a lawyer on speed dial is no replacement for caring.
When will you humans learn that these feelings, as you call them, can stand in the way of huge cash settlements?
Sounds like someone needs to start voting Libertarian. ;-)
Electric motors deliver their maximum torque at 0 rpm, and then it drops off as mechanical friction starts acting as a parasite.
I thought it was because electric motors start acting as generators when they spin, and the current flow is in the opposite direction.
Damn, you beat me to the punchline. :-)
At least someone got that reference. :-)
Okay, what about this quote from the article?
If an economic system is Pareto efficient, then it is the case that no individual can be made better off without another being made worse off.
Or this one?
Many undesirable systems are Pareto efficient. For example, a dictatorship where the dictator gets every resource is Pareto efficient because any redistribution would decrease the wealth of the dictator.
I think you are misreading things.
From the wikpedia article:
A strongly Pareto optimal (SPO) allocation (X) is one for which there cannot be any other feasible allocation (say X') such that the allocation (X') is strictly preferred by at least one person, and weakly preferred by everyone else. A weakly Pareto optimal (WPO) allocation is one where a feasible reallocation would be strictly preferred by all agents.
A key drawback of Pareto optimality is its localization. In an economic system with millions of variables there can be very many Local optimum points. The Pareto improvement criterion does not even define any Global optimum. Under a reasonable criterion, many Pareto-optimal solutions may be far inferior to the global solution.
Maybe wiki has it wrong, maybe I'm not reading that right, but it seems to support my conclusion, at least for the strong case.
Wow, I guess that's why its a well known secret in the gaming industry that poeple buy GURPS books to read, not play. Although, admittedly, that probably applies more to world sourcebooks than basic rulebooks. In defense of the basic rulebooks, they are a much better read in 4th edition.
Except most of that infrastructure was paid for with our tax dollars. And you forgot to address the part about the contract. They signed a contract when we let them use the right of way, stating that we have the right to regulate their usage in return for us letting them use it. We do have the right to enforce that contract, don't we?
Pareto efficiency seems to be a method for defending the status quo, i.e. we can't make any changes that would make anyone less happy. I mean, I see it's a usefull concept, but it seems to ignore the possiblity that maybe some greedy fuckers deserve to be made a little less happy so the rest of us can be a little more happy.
But I'm just a mutant commie traitor, what do I know?
I'm sorry, but that comment just proves you don't know shit about parenting. My parents never fucked with me, lied to me, or abused my trust and I never had any reason to hide things from them. You can, in fact, have good relations with teenage kids, you just have to start building that trust early.
Groupthink, really? Could you please tell me what the groupthink here is, exactly? Because from what I can tell it changes from day to day based on who has the mod points.
Oh wait, you meant groupthink as in "anyone who disagrees with me." Gotcha.
Well, I disagree and I would disagree if you made that comment about any game system. Game systems are all boring, if you sit down and read them. In this regard, GURPS is actually the least boring.
Games themselves can be boring, but that is invariably the fault of the GM, the players, or the person who wrote the particular adventure. I can GM a game with no frickin' rules and no preparation, just making shit up off the top of my head and it will be exciting, because I have an imagination and a head stuffed full of fantasy and sci fi plotlines.
Well, I did admit to being in a fanboyish mood when I wrote that, so you have every right to criticise. Let me clarify. I think GURPS has the best balance between clarity, simplicity, realism, and playability.
What happened to your original account? Did you trash your karma that quick? Maybe you should try listening to people who know more than you and refrain from ad hominem attacks. Actually, looking at the account history on both, you are doing better on the last point now. Just try not to come off so cocky and ocassionally admit when you are wrong and you'll do fine.
;-)
It's okay, nobody can be right all the time and no one is an expert in every subject. I'm guessing you are a pretty smart guy, and not too used to dealing with other people as smart or smarter than you. Sure, there are a lot of dumb-asses here, but there are a lot of really smart, well informed people here, too.
An occasional rant is fine (see my rant about you, in response to cpt kangarooski) but every now and then you gotta try to be nice (like I'm doing here. After reading some of your more recent comments I've decided you aren't a hopeless case after all.)
All I can say is, when I stopped thinking I was right all the time, and everyone who disagreed with me was an idiot, I started learning more. When I learned to back down and admit I was wrong, I started making more friends. When I learned how to have a dialogue with people who disagree with me, I found that they didn't disagree with me about everything, and I found that I either strengthened my own arguments or (*GASP*) modified my own opinions.
Oh, and Tuesday is Troll day, so the advice above doesn't apply. You can go hog-wild and post any crazy diatribe you want. You'll still be modded down, most likely, but us old-timers won't hold it against you.
Sorry, Cpt. but you are wasting your time. This newb has a history of unbelievable pig-headedness, came riding into /. on his high horse with cotton in his ears, killed the horse and hasn't stopped beating it since. It's so bad he had to create a whole new account, GuloGulo2 when he trashed the karma on his original account.