radiocobalt isotopes so nothing would grow for a thousand years
Its called a "salted bomb"
nuclear powered, plutonium fueled, unmanned bombers that delivered it into their cities after they had spent a month each flying back and forth over the whole country
I respect you sir, but your warfare tactical sense is a little dated.
North Korea is all bark and no bite. It makes them a joke to the rest of the world. Maybe if they threatened to send their starving people out as immigrants it would make other nations scared. Funny thing is, I am fairly liberal.
What is stupid is that the rest of humanity is kept in the dark about it. It would not be possible with massive starships. With that sort of technology some upstart company of ex-military individuals involved with the Stargate and spacecraft would start mining asteroids or something and out-compete all other mining companies on earth.
I absolutely hate Walmart. Every time I go there it is chock full of rude people that cut you off in the aisles or randomly shuffle around the parking lot in stupid places that get in your way. They don't bother using designated crossing areas or sticking near the cars, they just shuffle down the center of the lot. Then theres the people that bolt out of the front door of Walmart and cross right in front of your vehicle without even looking to see if there are cars. Ive had to slam on my brakes more times at Walmart then in Houston rush hour. Then there are the weird mobs of people that spontaneously and constantly spawn from the front door and block all traffic for 20-30 minutes at a time. Every time I go to Walmart I begin to hate humanity. That is probably why Ive only gone there once in the last two years, and that was just to get a Christmas tree.
I don't know. Apple seems to be selling products with hardware you can get for cheaper at premium prices and getting away with it. People like Apple because their operating system is nice, the products look good, and they can go to an Apple store and get decent help. Places like Best Buy do not pay their employees enough to care about their jobs, and they mark up certain products and services ridiculously high but offer no added value for the mark-up. If people would be more like Apple the show-room stores would still make money.
Solution to razor problem : Grow a beard. Men have them for a reason. Its like a male peacocks feathers. Chicks need to fuck off if they don't like beards.
The problem is that those retailers primarily exist in the larger metropolitan areas and not in towns of populations below 50,000 where competition is desperately needed.
Most rural towns have access to more farms, so they need to start supporting local growers. Prices at farmers markets are many times very competitive with Wal-mart prices, with the exception of the meat. However, Wal-mart meat is made from animals in massive factory farms that let them fester in their own feces. You get healthier animals and healthier meat from farmers markets.
Harley riders remind me of Apple fanbois. Maybe not the best analogy, but you pay a premium price for a better os and crappier hardware that you could get if you bought another brand.
Support local farms? Thats the best way to do it. Our local farmers market has cheaper prices on produce than Walmart. Many times you get people that grow their own food but grew to much and just want to make a couple extra bucks off it. The food is generally much healthier (as they don't try to mass produce it) and it looks better (like thicker fuller leaves, not spoiled). The meat is more expensive but who wants to eat Walmart cow meat? It sucks and it spent most of its time in a pile of cow shit behind a cow's festering infected hide. Its the same pretty much with every other animal product they sell.
Well, grocery prices at HEB and Fiesta are many times lower than Walmart. Ive been to farmers markets where I bought fresh produce for WAY cheaper than Walmart could do. Theres a dude at our local farmers market that sells every vegetable for a dollar, Im talking huge eggplants, heads of lettuce, and sometimes multiple vegetables for a dollar if they are smaller. They are bigger and more healthy looking than Walmart's produce and cheaper so F*** walmart. I hate going there anyway. Additionally you can always go buy better clothes on sales at various places like TJ Max or Marshalls. Im sure there are other options where you live like thrift stores? Clothing at thrift stores is not always bad clothing. I got the best pair of jeans I ever wore at a thrift store.
Shit try working there. The type of customers Best Buy gets are morons. I worked for Geek squad in college and I had to deal with more idiots and rude customers than I could handle. Routinely I would get blamed for their computer problems or stupidity and several times I had people take my name down so they could go bitch to the manager if I didn't get their computer done before everyone else that came before them.
I hate salesmen. The last guy I went to at a Conn's (electronics/appliance store) kept bothering me about buying a big TV. All I wanted was a cheaper TV and I had a size already in mind. He literally would not stop following me around and telling me to "OOooh! This TV is so nice though and there is great financing". I can do my own research.
Just bought some Abercrombie shirts for 13 a piece. Not bad considering the fabric is high quality and they fit me really well. Only an idiot buys big label shirts for the label or at full price.
Generation ships are what is most feasible with "our" understanding of physics. I think that we are a few hundred years away from a greater understanding what laws we can exploit for FTL travel in our universe. We had a few decades of great achievement and then more decades/centuries of speculation. The same thing happened before Newton, Leibniz, Fourier, Archimedes. A period of dark age followed by a period of brilliance.
PS. I posted a few links in this thread as to the dude that (I believe) came up with the theory I mentioned before. Let me know if you want them (to save time looking). Otherwise, let me know when you are published. Ill buy your book.
The 'dogma' is "FTL is impossible in a Relativistic universe", and that remains true.
It is quite possible that Relativity is wrong, very probable really. However it is not guaranteed that it is wrong with regards to the aspects that make FTL impossible. I'd call that improbable, even, since it'd have to be really wrong for that to happen and yet still keep a causal universe.
Relativity is probably as wrong as Newtonian mechanics. I.e. it works on one scale but not another. I have no doubt we will find something that applies on quantum scale and galactic scale. I am just too stupid to help out in that endeavor.
doesn't necessitate, it enables in what are from the point at which you have an ansible trivial ways. In other words, not every ansible usage violates causality, but there are ansible usages that do.
I.e. Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
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Just as soon as you guys get dentists.
Cricket is stupid.
There's a reason intelligent people are more "liberal".
But I have +15 wisdom and +10 intelligence and would cast "Sanctuary"
radiocobalt isotopes so nothing would grow for a thousand years
Its called a "salted bomb"
nuclear powered, plutonium fueled, unmanned bombers that delivered it into their cities after they had spent a month each flying back and forth over the whole country
I respect you sir, but your warfare tactical sense is a little dated.
North Korea is all bark and no bite. It makes them a joke to the rest of the world. Maybe if they threatened to send their starving people out as immigrants it would make other nations scared. Funny thing is, I am fairly liberal.
4) Do not have noise in space battles.
What is stupid is that the rest of humanity is kept in the dark about it. It would not be possible with massive starships. With that sort of technology some upstart company of ex-military individuals involved with the Stargate and spacecraft would start mining asteroids or something and out-compete all other mining companies on earth.
I absolutely hate Walmart. Every time I go there it is chock full of rude people that cut you off in the aisles or randomly shuffle around the parking lot in stupid places that get in your way. They don't bother using designated crossing areas or sticking near the cars, they just shuffle down the center of the lot. Then theres the people that bolt out of the front door of Walmart and cross right in front of your vehicle without even looking to see if there are cars. Ive had to slam on my brakes more times at Walmart then in Houston rush hour. Then there are the weird mobs of people that spontaneously and constantly spawn from the front door and block all traffic for 20-30 minutes at a time. Every time I go to Walmart I begin to hate humanity. That is probably why Ive only gone there once in the last two years, and that was just to get a Christmas tree.
I don't know. Apple seems to be selling products with hardware you can get for cheaper at premium prices and getting away with it. People like Apple because their operating system is nice, the products look good, and they can go to an Apple store and get decent help. Places like Best Buy do not pay their employees enough to care about their jobs, and they mark up certain products and services ridiculously high but offer no added value for the mark-up. If people would be more like Apple the show-room stores would still make money.
I forgot to mention that sometimes you have to see people's naked pictures they have on their computers. Its fucking gross.
Solution to razor problem : Grow a beard. Men have them for a reason. Its like a male peacocks feathers. Chicks need to fuck off if they don't like beards.
The problem is that those retailers primarily exist in the larger metropolitan areas and not in towns of populations below 50,000 where competition is desperately needed.
Most rural towns have access to more farms, so they need to start supporting local growers. Prices at farmers markets are many times very competitive with Wal-mart prices, with the exception of the meat. However, Wal-mart meat is made from animals in massive factory farms that let them fester in their own feces. You get healthier animals and healthier meat from farmers markets.
Harley riders remind me of Apple fanbois. Maybe not the best analogy, but you pay a premium price for a better os and crappier hardware that you could get if you bought another brand.
Support local farms? Thats the best way to do it. Our local farmers market has cheaper prices on produce than Walmart. Many times you get people that grow their own food but grew to much and just want to make a couple extra bucks off it. The food is generally much healthier (as they don't try to mass produce it) and it looks better (like thicker fuller leaves, not spoiled). The meat is more expensive but who wants to eat Walmart cow meat? It sucks and it spent most of its time in a pile of cow shit behind a cow's festering infected hide. Its the same pretty much with every other animal product they sell.
Well, grocery prices at HEB and Fiesta are many times lower than Walmart. Ive been to farmers markets where I bought fresh produce for WAY cheaper than Walmart could do. Theres a dude at our local farmers market that sells every vegetable for a dollar, Im talking huge eggplants, heads of lettuce, and sometimes multiple vegetables for a dollar if they are smaller. They are bigger and more healthy looking than Walmart's produce and cheaper so F*** walmart. I hate going there anyway. Additionally you can always go buy better clothes on sales at various places like TJ Max or Marshalls. Im sure there are other options where you live like thrift stores? Clothing at thrift stores is not always bad clothing. I got the best pair of jeans I ever wore at a thrift store.
Shit try working there. The type of customers Best Buy gets are morons. I worked for Geek squad in college and I had to deal with more idiots and rude customers than I could handle. Routinely I would get blamed for their computer problems or stupidity and several times I had people take my name down so they could go bitch to the manager if I didn't get their computer done before everyone else that came before them.
Happens in some casinos.
I hate salesmen. The last guy I went to at a Conn's (electronics/appliance store) kept bothering me about buying a big TV. All I wanted was a cheaper TV and I had a size already in mind. He literally would not stop following me around and telling me to "OOooh! This TV is so nice though and there is great financing". I can do my own research.
Just bought some Abercrombie shirts for 13 a piece. Not bad considering the fabric is high quality and they fit me really well. Only an idiot buys big label shirts for the label or at full price.
Generation ships are what is most feasible with "our" understanding of physics. I think that we are a few hundred years away from a greater understanding what laws we can exploit for FTL travel in our universe. We had a few decades of great achievement and then more decades/centuries of speculation. The same thing happened before Newton, Leibniz, Fourier, Archimedes. A period of dark age followed by a period of brilliance.
PS. I posted a few links in this thread as to the dude that (I believe) came up with the theory I mentioned before. Let me know if you want them (to save time looking). Otherwise, let me know when you are published. Ill buy your book.
The 'dogma' is "FTL is impossible in a Relativistic universe", and that remains true. It is quite possible that Relativity is wrong, very probable really. However it is not guaranteed that it is wrong with regards to the aspects that make FTL impossible. I'd call that improbable, even, since it'd have to be really wrong for that to happen and yet still keep a causal universe.
Relativity is probably as wrong as Newtonian mechanics. I.e. it works on one scale but not another. I have no doubt we will find something that applies on quantum scale and galactic scale. I am just too stupid to help out in that endeavor.
doesn't necessitate, it enables in what are from the point at which you have an ansible trivial ways. In other words, not every ansible usage violates causality, but there are ansible usages that do.
I.e. Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
Please let me know when its published. I like hard SF novels.