Not if he's in Euroland where they use commas for decimals. If that is the case, and also if they measure their dollars in thousandths, then 500,000 grand could be 500000 "dollars".
I had meant for the above to be funny. Which it isn't.
Ya and often those modified items are worth a lot less, that's right a lot less. I'll never again buy someone's stupid modified car, I don't care if it was done "professionally". This reminds me of the fake commercial on the radio of Grand Theft Auto 4 where that muscly guy (I think his name is Brucie) talks about his car modification shop wehre he says they take super cars designed by world-class engineers and modify them to make them worth a lot less. Tha'ts right, a lot less.
Yeah, well your country makes it difficult for clean-as-a-whistle professional people like me to get in for a convention, so I don't htink this is unreasonable.
In Canada we take this especially seriously, and our provincial associations will go so far as to take a usurper of the term "engineer" to court to require them to change their title. The bottom line is that the public is meant to know that they can trust the professionalism and competency of a real engineer. You count on us to design things which will be safe. And to claim you are an engineer (network, petroleum transfer, etc.) is misleading to the public in the sense that you understand the ramifications of that public trust in doing your work. It's not meaningless.
And to the hoser below, regarding train engineers (drivers), they are specially exempted because it is a time-honoured tradition for them to be called engineers, and everyone knows what it means, so there's no problem there. Thus we can call them engineers, and we all know that it doesn't mean quite the same thing as a professional engineer. Unless they have an engineering degree.
Well I thought the Matrix movies were all pretty good, and that the first one was one of the best movies ever made. There were a few moronic parts, like in the second one when that old chancellor guy was talking to Neo about how old men don't make points anymore. What the hell is that supposed to mean? Made no sense at all. Generally, sequels are never as good as the original and the Matrix trilogy was no exception to that. But they weren't horrible. The second and third movies were really one movie, split into two, just like Kill Bill.
Anyway you guys are right, that they should have left the part in where human brains were jacked into the matrix mainly for the purpose of providing computing power. Makes more sense than the food-thing.
Your post reminds me of the classic Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk is on trial for allegedly killing that other officer, and Spock defends Kirk by showing the court how the ship's computer log was faulty. He proved that you couldn't trust the computer log and that how could the computer be his accuser? Can't remember the details but you know what I mean. I also cna't remember the name of that episode but it was a good one.
And by coming up with new "diseases" to treat. Like Restless Legs Syndrome. What the fuck is that? Yes sometimes my legs feels restless. BUT YOU CAN CURE IT BY GETTING SOME FUCKING EXERCISE! People just want to be super lazy and just sit around on the couch, taking whatever drug they need out of the toolbox to "cure" whatever ails them at that moment. I have an uncle like that. What do you got? Mildly constipated? Try one of the 3 treatments he has in his medicine cabinet for that. Or maybe it's a slight headache? Try this, or this, or this...
Meanwhile, the drug companies are focussing on long-term diseases, like depression, because they can then hook you on their drug for life. This is why there are few new anti-biotics released, according to a doctor friend I have.
Hmm, I read most of that stuff too. Gave up about 10 years ago as it was getting to be too much.
Anyway this announcement reminds me of the South Park episode from last year, or the year before, about the new Indiana Jones movie. With George Lucas and Steven Spielberg butt-raping Indiana Jones. This new sitcom is all that this is about: raping the franchise for whatever more profit they can squeeze out of it and dumping the carcass.
They're doing it for economy of scale. You can film both movies at once and make two movies for a smaller marginal cost than it would cost to film them both entirely separately. It's for money, nothing else.
Lego sets of the past decade or so have been mostly build-it-once kits, and then you have a toy that the kid either plays with or leaves on the shelf. There's no imagination required, you just follow the directions. The parts are so specialized now that you can't take it all apart and come up with your own design, because they can only fit in one spot and have only one possible function. When I was a kid, I used to build super cool cars and spaceships and houses using these buckets of random Lego we had. There were some specialized parts, like laser thingies and stuff, but you could add that to your ship to make it super awesome and imagine how the guns would work. I used to also add bomb-droppers. Later in my Lego-career, me and a friend used to build little cannon stations and then targets out of Lego, and shoot blocks at the targets using rubber bands. That was fun.
Do they even sell bulk kits anymore? How can you get plain old blocks without going on ebay and buying someone's old, used random lots of Lego?
My point is that Lego itself is the enemy of imagination. By selling kits that you can't do anything else with besides build their prescribed design, they are stifling the imaginations of kids. It's really disappointing, actually. Like what's the point in building the set from Star Wars? What creativity is there in that?
Some of these cars have a push-button ignition switch. My dad has one. But I do not know what happens if you try to push the sbutton to switch off the engine while it's howling away at 5500 rpm. Will it shut off, or just ignore your suggestion to kill the ignition? Who knows.
Either way, unless a person is prepared to suddenly deal with the lack of power stering and brakes, and maybe locked steering (btw the stering wheel usually doesn't lock till you turn the key all the way to "off" and pull it out) your suggestion is not really a good idea.
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Not if he's in Euroland where they use commas for decimals. If that is the case, and also if they measure their dollars in thousandths, then 500,000 grand could be 500000 "dollars".
I had meant for the above to be funny. Which it isn't.
That is an interesting point, but I'd like to see some figures to illustrate the reality of it.
We can only hope. But yet some people are actively trying to get the public to submit: http://www.slate.com/id/2275681/
I'm pretty sure Michael Knight mostly wore tight jeans. Actually very sure.
This guy might be wrong, but I don't think he's a troll. Fuck's sakes.
Ya and often those modified items are worth a lot less, that's right a lot less. I'll never again buy someone's stupid modified car, I don't care if it was done "professionally". This reminds me of the fake commercial on the radio of Grand Theft Auto 4 where that muscly guy (I think his name is Brucie) talks about his car modification shop wehre he says they take super cars designed by world-class engineers and modify them to make them worth a lot less. Tha'ts right, a lot less.
And not available to Canadians.
I don't get why you didn't post using your real name. Why be an AC?
Yeah, well your country makes it difficult for clean-as-a-whistle professional people like me to get in for a convention, so I don't htink this is unreasonable.
Or maybe you're just jealous.
In Canada we take this especially seriously, and our provincial associations will go so far as to take a usurper of the term "engineer" to court to require them to change their title. The bottom line is that the public is meant to know that they can trust the professionalism and competency of a real engineer. You count on us to design things which will be safe. And to claim you are an engineer (network, petroleum transfer, etc.) is misleading to the public in the sense that you understand the ramifications of that public trust in doing your work. It's not meaningless.
And to the hoser below, regarding train engineers (drivers), they are specially exempted because it is a time-honoured tradition for them to be called engineers, and everyone knows what it means, so there's no problem there. Thus we can call them engineers, and we all know that it doesn't mean quite the same thing as a professional engineer. Unless they have an engineering degree.
Well I thought the Matrix movies were all pretty good, and that the first one was one of the best movies ever made. There were a few moronic parts, like in the second one when that old chancellor guy was talking to Neo about how old men don't make points anymore. What the hell is that supposed to mean? Made no sense at all. Generally, sequels are never as good as the original and the Matrix trilogy was no exception to that. But they weren't horrible. The second and third movies were really one movie, split into two, just like Kill Bill.
Anyway you guys are right, that they should have left the part in where human brains were jacked into the matrix mainly for the purpose of providing computing power. Makes more sense than the food-thing.
Your post reminds me of the classic Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk is on trial for allegedly killing that other officer, and Spock defends Kirk by showing the court how the ship's computer log was faulty. He proved that you couldn't trust the computer log and that how could the computer be his accuser? Can't remember the details but you know what I mean. I also cna't remember the name of that episode but it was a good one.
And by coming up with new "diseases" to treat. Like Restless Legs Syndrome. What the fuck is that? Yes sometimes my legs feels restless. BUT YOU CAN CURE IT BY GETTING SOME FUCKING EXERCISE! People just want to be super lazy and just sit around on the couch, taking whatever drug they need out of the toolbox to "cure" whatever ails them at that moment. I have an uncle like that. What do you got? Mildly constipated? Try one of the 3 treatments he has in his medicine cabinet for that. Or maybe it's a slight headache? Try this, or this, or this...
Meanwhile, the drug companies are focussing on long-term diseases, like depression, because they can then hook you on their drug for life. This is why there are few new anti-biotics released, according to a doctor friend I have.
And who says sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet?
Hmm, I read most of that stuff too. Gave up about 10 years ago as it was getting to be too much.
Anyway this announcement reminds me of the South Park episode from last year, or the year before, about the new Indiana Jones movie. With George Lucas and Steven Spielberg butt-raping Indiana Jones. This new sitcom is all that this is about: raping the franchise for whatever more profit they can squeeze out of it and dumping the carcass.
What an awful idea.
They're doing it for economy of scale. You can film both movies at once and make two movies for a smaller marginal cost than it would cost to film them both entirely separately. It's for money, nothing else.
See Homer? That's why your robot didn't work, because yours didn't have all that stuff inside.
Lego sets of the past decade or so have been mostly build-it-once kits, and then you have a toy that the kid either plays with or leaves on the shelf. There's no imagination required, you just follow the directions. The parts are so specialized now that you can't take it all apart and come up with your own design, because they can only fit in one spot and have only one possible function. When I was a kid, I used to build super cool cars and spaceships and houses using these buckets of random Lego we had. There were some specialized parts, like laser thingies and stuff, but you could add that to your ship to make it super awesome and imagine how the guns would work. I used to also add bomb-droppers. Later in my Lego-career, me and a friend used to build little cannon stations and then targets out of Lego, and shoot blocks at the targets using rubber bands. That was fun.
Do they even sell bulk kits anymore? How can you get plain old blocks without going on ebay and buying someone's old, used random lots of Lego?
My point is that Lego itself is the enemy of imagination. By selling kits that you can't do anything else with besides build their prescribed design, they are stifling the imaginations of kids. It's really disappointing, actually. Like what's the point in building the set from Star Wars? What creativity is there in that?
Wow, I read the AC's link. That seems to be pretty serious and a real threat, at least immediately and before it all gets diluted away.
Heh heh.
That meme is also dead, thanks very much.
There's another difference between "play sand" in a sandbox, and "regular sand:" The urine content.
Some of these cars have a push-button ignition switch. My dad has one. But I do not know what happens if you try to push the sbutton to switch off the engine while it's howling away at 5500 rpm. Will it shut off, or just ignore your suggestion to kill the ignition? Who knows.
Either way, unless a person is prepared to suddenly deal with the lack of power stering and brakes, and maybe locked steering (btw the stering wheel usually doesn't lock till you turn the key all the way to "off" and pull it out) your suggestion is not really a good idea.