In his defense, the people of Big Red Radio's home planet are extremely polite. I, for one, welcome our Overlords, is actually a variation of their standard greeting.
For sure. I used to play AC with a friend about every week or so. Damn thing kept crashing (and as far as we could tell, reloading a multiplayer saved turned it into a single player game) but this is the greatest testament to the game: we kept trying even though it always crashed before we got to the end.
This is the result when you have people who have a reputation for saying they are going to stop doing some bad thing only to be caught doing it time and again. It's the same as crying wolf. After a while, people who recall the reputation (embrace, extend, extinguish for just one example) will suspect the future motives for everything they do, even if it really is noble this time (and I'm not saying that it is, but I haven't found anything particularly damning). It really shouldn't be that surprising when people become suspicious of people who have shown such a history of underhanded tactics. Maybe they've really changed, but maybe we just haven't seen the full plan yet? It wouldn't be the first time, and that's the really sad part.
You can't just glance at that and see the problem? If I had actually double checked it, I would have realized he had the wrong exponent on the amount of energy that hits the earth everyday.
I actually thought that someone bothered to post that at all was pretty interesting. Makes me want to figure out how much energy would hit the inside of a Dyson sphere.
...once you are traveling faster than the speed of light the nature of gravity changes from attraction to repulsion. This means that a spaceship traveling that fast would be effectively shielded from small objects by the gravitational force.
I must have missed the day where they taught us that "99.999998 per cent of the speed of light" was faster than the speed of light.
Arkham's Razor: A theory which suggests that the simplest explanation tends to lead to Cthulhu. I wish I could take credit for coming up with that one, but I can't.
Enslave them, duh! * Various religions will declare they don't have souls, thus making it acceptable, then we'll have a war of some sort, and that's where the various books tend to diverge, so prediction beyond that is murky at best.
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I think that sounds like the government if it was run by Dave Parsons.
Very true. I used to do on site repair work for a few different companies and I had more than a few times where the vendor supplied restore disc didn't even work (wrong drivers supplied on it). Oh, the good old days (circa 2002-03, so it wasn't Windows 3.1, just in case someone misunderstands). It wasn't that rare, either (though probably something like 5% at most, which when you average 600 repairs a month, with at least half of them just being hard drive corruption (usually due to viruses) equals a lot of frustration.
Oh, no, what they'd do is when you try to save the file it gets sent to some unelected, unaccountable office for approval, and if it is approved you'd get to see it again. Maybe even on a government approved website. And if not, that's when you get some unexpected visitors and take an indefinite vacation to an undetermined location.
I had a land line years ago, but as well as almost never using it since I got my cell, it was notorious for going out. I actually called from my cell to cancel the service and the person at the phone company tried to get me to keep it at a low level of service since cell phones are unreliable. I reminded her I was calling from my cell because I picked up the land line and had no dial tone, and averaged that level of outage about once per 6 months that I was aware of which, since as I said I didn't hardly ever use that phone since I got my cell, is rather unlikely to have been the only times it was out of service for hours at a time. She didn't have an answer for that.
I was trying to find some stats about it but I just couldn't find anything useful. I found out 19 people may have died in crashes related to it, and that there have been X complaints (I think it was 2000, but I don't recall now) but that was prefaced with "...all car companies get complaints about unwanted acceleration, and it isn't know how the rate for Toyota compares to other car companies." I wanted some hard numbers, and all I could get was vague relative numbers without a comparison. Anyone found anything more definitive?
From looking at the site very briefly, I think he does, but in Greek, which is rather unhelpful if you are trying to learn it. "To understand recursion you must first understand recursion", anyone?
And then you have the cases of people who just give up trying. When I lived with some friends in a less than great neighborhood (really not that bad, just not rich or anything like that) and we thought we heard something that sounded like a shotgun going off in the neighborhood, what did we do? We called 911 to report it. What did the dispatcher do? Laughed and hung up on us. They sounded interested until we told them exactly where we lived. We weren't laughing when we called, we weren't being particularly alarmist (since we weren't certain of what we heard, but have some experience hunting and know what a shotgun sounds like). There wasn't a party going on, and we had a couple of neighbors that had a history of having the cops show up to deal with domestic problems a few months beforehand. No idea why they thought it was so funny, and apparently a waste of time. No cops showed up that night.
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In his defense, the people of Big Red Radio's home planet are extremely polite. I, for one, welcome our Overlords, is actually a variation of their standard greeting.
For sure. I used to play AC with a friend about every week or so. Damn thing kept crashing (and as far as we could tell, reloading a multiplayer saved turned it into a single player game) but this is the greatest testament to the game: we kept trying even though it always crashed before we got to the end.
This is the result when you have people who have a reputation for saying they are going to stop doing some bad thing only to be caught doing it time and again. It's the same as crying wolf. After a while, people who recall the reputation (embrace, extend, extinguish for just one example) will suspect the future motives for everything they do, even if it really is noble this time (and I'm not saying that it is, but I haven't found anything particularly damning). It really shouldn't be that surprising when people become suspicious of people who have shown such a history of underhanded tactics. Maybe they've really changed, but maybe we just haven't seen the full plan yet? It wouldn't be the first time, and that's the really sad part.
You can't just glance at that and see the problem? If I had actually double checked it, I would have realized he had the wrong exponent on the amount of energy that hits the earth everyday.
I actually thought that someone bothered to post that at all was pretty interesting. Makes me want to figure out how much energy would hit the inside of a Dyson sphere.
...once you are traveling faster than the speed of light the nature of gravity changes from attraction to repulsion. This means that a spaceship traveling that fast would be effectively shielded from small objects by the gravitational force.
I must have missed the day where they taught us that "99.999998 per cent of the speed of light" was faster than the speed of light.
Would that be more like 45 days?
...A perfect program that is never written isn't very useful.
It is, however, bug-free!
I think that is the best, most concise explanation for the problem in this whole thread.
According to Arkham's Razor, we might be.
Arkham's Razor: A theory which suggests that the simplest explanation tends to lead to Cthulhu. I wish I could take credit for coming up with that one, but I can't.
But would they have used a Visual Basic GUI to do it?
Enslave them, duh! * Various religions will declare they don't have souls, thus making it acceptable, then we'll have a war of some sort, and that's where the various books tend to diverge, so prediction beyond that is murky at best.
*I'm not condoning it, it's just what I'd expect
For sure, where's the +1 perfect mod when you need it?
If you intend to do anything illegal you must register. If you litter and have not registered your intention to litter we're going to come down hard on you! Planning to kill your spouse? Register now, and get 20% off your sentence! Planning to rob a bank? Registration before Feb 15th gives you 10% off your sentence. Planning a terrorist act? Just call 1-900-TERR-RIST, and we'll go easy on you if you don't make it right away to your chosen form of heaven...
I think that sounds like the government if it was run by Dave Parsons.
Very true. I used to do on site repair work for a few different companies and I had more than a few times where the vendor supplied restore disc didn't even work (wrong drivers supplied on it). Oh, the good old days (circa 2002-03, so it wasn't Windows 3.1, just in case someone misunderstands). It wasn't that rare, either (though probably something like 5% at most, which when you average 600 repairs a month, with at least half of them just being hard drive corruption (usually due to viruses) equals a lot of frustration.
Yeah, I love the updates that require a reboot so they can install another update that then requires another reboot.
Yeah, they might accidentally read a real vampire story for once.
Oh, no, what they'd do is when you try to save the file it gets sent to some unelected, unaccountable office for approval, and if it is approved you'd get to see it again. Maybe even on a government approved website. And if not, that's when you get some unexpected visitors and take an indefinite vacation to an undetermined location.
I had a land line years ago, but as well as almost never using it since I got my cell, it was notorious for going out. I actually called from my cell to cancel the service and the person at the phone company tried to get me to keep it at a low level of service since cell phones are unreliable. I reminded her I was calling from my cell because I picked up the land line and had no dial tone, and averaged that level of outage about once per 6 months that I was aware of which, since as I said I didn't hardly ever use that phone since I got my cell, is rather unlikely to have been the only times it was out of service for hours at a time. She didn't have an answer for that.
I was trying to find some stats about it but I just couldn't find anything useful. I found out 19 people may have died in crashes related to it, and that there have been X complaints (I think it was 2000, but I don't recall now) but that was prefaced with "...all car companies get complaints about unwanted acceleration, and it isn't know how the rate for Toyota compares to other car companies." I wanted some hard numbers, and all I could get was vague relative numbers without a comparison. Anyone found anything more definitive?
From looking at the site very briefly, I think he does, but in Greek, which is rather unhelpful if you are trying to learn it. "To understand recursion you must first understand recursion", anyone?
But when it gets retroactively extended again...
And then you have the cases of people who just give up trying. When I lived with some friends in a less than great neighborhood (really not that bad, just not rich or anything like that) and we thought we heard something that sounded like a shotgun going off in the neighborhood, what did we do? We called 911 to report it. What did the dispatcher do? Laughed and hung up on us. They sounded interested until we told them exactly where we lived. We weren't laughing when we called, we weren't being particularly alarmist (since we weren't certain of what we heard, but have some experience hunting and know what a shotgun sounds like). There wasn't a party going on, and we had a couple of neighbors that had a history of having the cops show up to deal with domestic problems a few months beforehand. No idea why they thought it was so funny, and apparently a waste of time. No cops showed up that night.
Generally only the one time.
I'm going to steal that comment the next time my friend asks me to find something he can't find with google.
If you assume they were charging $600/hour you end up with an interesting amount of hours, maybe it is a bit of a joke?