"Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just pick your mate from a social gathering where you can actually smell them than to send your genetic profile to some website?"
Yeah, so let me know when you work out how to do that via internet.
I've seen supposed wiretap transcripts on news sites and such that I guess were released during the trial. Most of the time the criminals ARE using code words, it's just, you know, not real hard to figure out that your terror suspects aren't really opening a hair salon, and therefore probably aren't ordering 300 'bottles' of 'conditioner' that are 'guaranteed to go off'.
Don't lie, you only know about that because you saw it on The Daily Show, and he's hardly balanced. I like a lot of what he says, but you have to wonder if he's ever pulled stuff like this (which, to be fair, probably reflects more on the scruples of one member of Fox's video production team than their whole station).
Combine the fact that anyone with a smartphone has in their pocket the ability to purchase almost anything worldwide with the fact that taking a crap is really boring and you get a hell of a lot of impulse buys via bathroom stall. E.g.: me and my new nVidia monitor/shutterglasses 3d bundle.
That and the current generation is full of impulsive idiots (see above).
"So any change in gun crime before/after the ban cannot be in any way related to the ban."
Then why is there a ban?
"But you gun nuts always have to make stuff up to justify your delusions."
At least we put effort in to 'making stuff up'; you just blatantly said that the ban was pointless. I guess you control freaks just like having lots of useless rules around?
So none of the armed men were white, and none of the armed, white men were racist? You DO know that there was more than one person carrying a gun at those rallies, right?
But no, you're probably right. A lapse in communication between those providing the video and those writing the script should be construed as a blatant lie.
1 First God made heaven & earth 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there arise from a process indistinguishable from random chance light!"
Re:I think the big questions are "big"
on
The Big Questions
·
· Score: 1
Some rough numbers (rough meaning I made all this shit up -- but you'll probably agree that they're reasonable).
Odds of having a dream: 1/3 Odds of the dream involving a girl: 1/2 Odds of the girl being one you liked: 1/10 Odds of it being THAT GIRL: 1/200 (totally random number, maybe you liked a lot more girls)
So you dream about this girl maybe 1/9,000 nights, or once every 24 years. Sound about right?
Assuming that a person from your high school looks you up and contacts you once every three years, then that's a 1/1095 chance of getting called by someone after a nights sleep. If you were friends with 500 people in high school, then the odds of THAT GIRL calling are around 1/550,000.
The final odds of THAT GIRL calling after THAT DREAM? About one in five billion. Sounds impressive, but that number essentially means that your supposedly divine occurrence actually happens to a little more than one person a night.
tl;dr: I don't even consider something a strange coincidence until the odds surpass a couple hundred billion. Anything more likely than 1/7,000,000,000 is practically a daily occurrence.
Isn't the cliche why we like it? It's one of the best games I've played in a long time, and yet I can't think of anything truly original that it's done. And that's fine by me.
Yeah, if you play for about 27 hours straight without pausing then it can get kind of jittery. To be fair though, that could have been the methamphetamines.
"What if the "lead driver" rides the brakes, thus smoking my brakes/warping my disks?"
You do know that the default state of most cars is 'slowing down', right?
"What if something falls off / out of a car ahead of me (a more common occurrence than you'd think), can I quickly escape the train, and who is liable when by design I can not?"
Yes. The same person that would have been liable if the exact same thing happened today. And that's a stupid question, isn't it? Do you really think it will be designed as a death trap? Do you not think anyone working on this will have your sagacity and forethought? Where in the plans did you see 'Ensure vehicles have NO ESCAPE (muahahaha)'?
"What if the guy in front of me is one of those smokers whom flicks ashes all over my car ventilation system? Bonus points if I'm allergic / asthmatic? Or an unmaintained beater pumping my car full of particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide? I bet an unmaintained diesel could literally kill someone, maybe not the driver, maybe a passenger, maybe a sleeping baby... What if a driver in the train passes out from the CO fumes, or has a heart attack or whatever, is everyone in front of him just dead meat when he plows into them?"
OK, so you don't like highways. We get it. This isn't meant to solve any of the personal problems you have with cars. It's to make the method of travel slightly more convenient and slightly more efficient. All of those things are issues today, and would not be made worse.
"What if the lead driver successfully goes thru a big puddle, flooding my intake and blowing my engine, and then I'm crashed into by the remainder of the train?"
Last time I went through a puddle there wasn't a tidal wave behind me.
"What if its typical winter weather conditions, with patches of ice/snow, my car is ordered to brake, but I spin out of control into other vehicles because my individual car was on a patch of snow/ice/sand at that instant? Or just simply plow into the vehicles in front of me, whom can't accelerate out of the way because they are now temporarily on an icy patch?"
You're the stupid kind of brave if you don't already fear these things on TODAY'S ROADS.
"What if, being the ridiculously hyper-paranoid USA, the lead vehicle is a terrorist/rapist/pedo/filesharer (according to my TV, aren't they all the same?)"
Then you'll never know or care. Stupid question.
"What if, the lead vehicle routes us thru an area that is ethnically incorrect, and the police pull me over (the crime of Driving While Black in a White Neighborhood, etc)."
Your post isn't even amusing, it's just painful.
"What if a vehicle is carjacked while in a train, is the lead vehicle liable? What if the lead vehicle was working with the carjackers?"
They'll jack a parked car instead, you dumb piece of shit.
"What if the lead driver drives over a pothole fast enough to set off my airbag, but not his?"
Then that sucks for you.
"What if the lead vehicle makes a minor traffic error that results in no physical problems, but some legal problems? Like not slowing down for an unmarked speedtrap? Everyone gets a ticket, only the lead, maybe the system designer or manufacturer or dealership? Who pays for the higher insurance?"
What if you had actually thought about the bullshit you asked and tried to determine if it was a valid question or if it instead tried in vain to disingenuously prove a point?
According to what metric? It's certainly not the metric they use at banks, that's for sure. 'My' money, 'his' money... we're all equal anyways aren't we?! It's in the declaration!!!1
nVidia looks like they have a nice, simple solution. I'll be buying their monitor + shutterglasses combo soon. My graphics card is a bit dated though (9600 GTX); hopefully it can handle rendering the extra frames. I just need 120hz right, not 120fps?
Can you explain to me why it's a good idea to get in a hunk of metal traveling 60+ mph on the same roads that we let 80 year old people drive on? Or do you not leave your house?
I haven't done the math, but I can say with a fair amount of certainty that the odds of the LHC destroying the universe are about the same as you getting struck by lightning, a comet, a crashing 747, and a baguette, all at once.
If only there was some way you could take a SHOT of your SCREEN, then I wouldn't have to come over... perhaps someday computers will include this funcionality.
Your point about expansions is still nonsense. They come out every two years for fucks sake. If you included it in the monthly price, it rises to a whopping $17. That's still cheaper than fucking dinner for two. If you paid $150 for all the games then you've been playing for FIVE YEARS. Adding up ALL the money I've spent on WoW, counting monthly fees and server transfers, it comes to $220/year or $18.33 a month. That's about equivallent to one new console game every three months, which is more than I get out of most of the crap they sell anyways.
He said 'game' not 'video game', and if I was to assume what he meant from the context, I would have assumed 'mmorpg' and not 'video game' in general anyways.
And it's not like your nitpick actually has anything to do with my point. Judging game to game, $20 for WoW is pretty fucking good, even if you only get the first 60 levels and all the dungeons that go with it. Spend another $20 for BC, and you get many more hours of play, new dungeons, a new continent, etc. Now you've spent less than you would have buying Halo, and you get the same content that amused players for YEARS.
Anyone who thinks WoW is expensive by any metric needs to spend some quality time with a math book.
It wasn't a joke, it was a popular culture reference. I'd imagine that you're neither popular nor cultured; that would explain your total failure to 'get it'.
Slashdot Mirror
"Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just pick your mate from a social gathering where you can actually smell them than to send your genetic profile to some website?"
Yeah, so let me know when you work out how to do that via internet.
I had a Motorola V180 that split in two and didn't go back together. I was able to use it for like another 6 months via speakerphone.
Moon base, Earth bass; what's the difference?
You don't like free things? Are you stupid or something?
I've seen supposed wiretap transcripts on news sites and such that I guess were released during the trial. Most of the time the criminals ARE using code words, it's just, you know, not real hard to figure out that your terror suspects aren't really opening a hair salon, and therefore probably aren't ordering 300 'bottles' of 'conditioner' that are 'guaranteed to go off'.
Don't lie, you only know about that because you saw it on The Daily Show, and he's hardly balanced. I like a lot of what he says, but you have to wonder if he's ever pulled stuff like this (which, to be fair, probably reflects more on the scruples of one member of Fox's video production team than their whole station).
"And wolla, what a surprise"
You should reaaaaally crack open a book once in a while.
Combine the fact that anyone with a smartphone has in their pocket the ability to purchase almost anything worldwide with the fact that taking a crap is really boring and you get a hell of a lot of impulse buys via bathroom stall. E.g.: me and my new nVidia monitor/shutterglasses 3d bundle.
That and the current generation is full of impulsive idiots (see above).
COBOL
Hello? Can anyone hear me? I got lost on the Internet and somehow I ended up here in the 1950s... McCarthy? Is that you?
"So any change in gun crime before/after the ban cannot be in any way related to the ban."
Then why is there a ban?
"But you gun nuts always have to make stuff up to justify your delusions."
At least we put effort in to 'making stuff up'; you just blatantly said that the ban was pointless. I guess you control freaks just like having lots of useless rules around?
So none of the armed men were white, and none of the armed, white men were racist? You DO know that there was more than one person carrying a gun at those rallies, right?
But no, you're probably right. A lapse in communication between those providing the video and those writing the script should be construed as a blatant lie.
Page 1 of 1189
Genesis 1
1 First God made heaven & earth 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there arise from a process indistinguishable from random chance light!"
Some rough numbers (rough meaning I made all this shit up -- but you'll probably agree that they're reasonable).
Odds of having a dream: 1/3
Odds of the dream involving a girl: 1/2
Odds of the girl being one you liked: 1/10
Odds of it being THAT GIRL: 1/200 (totally random number, maybe you liked a lot more girls)
So you dream about this girl maybe 1/9,000 nights, or once every 24 years. Sound about right?
Assuming that a person from your high school looks you up and contacts you once every three years, then that's a 1/1095 chance of getting called by someone after a nights sleep. If you were friends with 500 people in high school, then the odds of THAT GIRL calling are around 1/550,000.
The final odds of THAT GIRL calling after THAT DREAM? About one in five billion. Sounds impressive, but that number essentially means that your supposedly divine occurrence actually happens to a little more than one person a night.
tl;dr:
I don't even consider something a strange coincidence until the odds surpass a couple hundred billion. Anything more likely than 1/7,000,000,000 is practically a daily occurrence.
Isn't the cliche why we like it? It's one of the best games I've played in a long time, and yet I can't think of anything truly original that it's done. And that's fine by me.
Dragons and elves and magic, hell yeah.
Yeah, if you play for about 27 hours straight without pausing then it can get kind of jittery. To be fair though, that could have been the methamphetamines.
"What if the "lead driver" rides the brakes, thus smoking my brakes/warping my disks?"
You do know that the default state of most cars is 'slowing down', right?
"What if something falls off / out of a car ahead of me (a more common occurrence than you'd think), can I quickly escape the train, and who is liable when by design I can not?"
Yes. The same person that would have been liable if the exact same thing happened today. And that's a stupid question, isn't it? Do you really think it will be designed as a death trap? Do you not think anyone working on this will have your sagacity and forethought? Where in the plans did you see 'Ensure vehicles have NO ESCAPE (muahahaha)'?
"What if the guy in front of me is one of those smokers whom flicks ashes all over my car ventilation system? Bonus points if I'm allergic / asthmatic? Or an unmaintained beater pumping my car full of particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide? I bet an unmaintained diesel could literally kill someone, maybe not the driver, maybe a passenger, maybe a sleeping baby... What if a driver in the train passes out from the CO fumes, or has a heart attack or whatever, is everyone in front of him just dead meat when he plows into them?"
OK, so you don't like highways. We get it. This isn't meant to solve any of the personal problems you have with cars. It's to make the method of travel slightly more convenient and slightly more efficient. All of those things are issues today, and would not be made worse.
"What if the lead driver successfully goes thru a big puddle, flooding my intake and blowing my engine, and then I'm crashed into by the remainder of the train?"
Last time I went through a puddle there wasn't a tidal wave behind me.
"What if its typical winter weather conditions, with patches of ice/snow, my car is ordered to brake, but I spin out of control into other vehicles because my individual car was on a patch of snow/ice/sand at that instant? Or just simply plow into the vehicles in front of me, whom can't accelerate out of the way because they are now temporarily on an icy patch?"
You're the stupid kind of brave if you don't already fear these things on TODAY'S ROADS.
"What if, being the ridiculously hyper-paranoid USA, the lead vehicle is a terrorist/rapist/pedo/filesharer (according to my TV, aren't they all the same?)"
Then you'll never know or care. Stupid question.
"What if, the lead vehicle routes us thru an area that is ethnically incorrect, and the police pull me over (the crime of Driving While Black in a White Neighborhood, etc)."
Your post isn't even amusing, it's just painful.
"What if a vehicle is carjacked while in a train, is the lead vehicle liable? What if the lead vehicle was working with the carjackers?"
They'll jack a parked car instead, you dumb piece of shit.
"What if the lead driver drives over a pothole fast enough to set off my airbag, but not his?"
Then that sucks for you.
"What if the lead vehicle makes a minor traffic error that results in no physical problems, but some legal problems? Like not slowing down for an unmarked speedtrap? Everyone gets a ticket, only the lead, maybe the system designer or manufacturer or dealership? Who pays for the higher insurance?"
What if you had actually thought about the bullshit you asked and tried to determine if it was a valid question or if it instead tried in vain to disingenuously prove a point?
"that all men are created equal"
According to what metric? It's certainly not the metric they use at banks, that's for sure. 'My' money, 'his' money... we're all equal anyways aren't we?! It's in the declaration!!!1
nVidia looks like they have a nice, simple solution. I'll be buying their monitor + shutterglasses combo soon. My graphics card is a bit dated though (9600 GTX); hopefully it can handle rendering the extra frames. I just need 120hz right, not 120fps?
Can you explain to me why it's a good idea to get in a hunk of metal traveling 60+ mph on the same roads that we let 80 year old people drive on? Or do you not leave your house?
I haven't done the math, but I can say with a fair amount of certainty that the odds of the LHC destroying the universe are about the same as you getting struck by lightning, a comet, a crashing 747, and a baguette, all at once.
If only there was some way you could take a SHOT of your SCREEN, then I wouldn't have to come over... perhaps someday computers will include this funcionality.
Your point about expansions is still nonsense. They come out every two years for fucks sake. If you included it in the monthly price, it rises to a whopping $17. That's still cheaper than fucking dinner for two. If you paid $150 for all the games then you've been playing for FIVE YEARS. Adding up ALL the money I've spent on WoW, counting monthly fees and server transfers, it comes to $220/year or $18.33 a month. That's about equivallent to one new console game every three months, which is more than I get out of most of the crap they sell anyways.
Yeah but the graphics suck, and chess is for nerds.
He said 'game' not 'video game', and if I was to assume what he meant from the context, I would have assumed 'mmorpg' and not 'video game' in general anyways.
And it's not like your nitpick actually has anything to do with my point. Judging game to game, $20 for WoW is pretty fucking good, even if you only get the first 60 levels and all the dungeons that go with it. Spend another $20 for BC, and you get many more hours of play, new dungeons, a new continent, etc. Now you've spent less than you would have buying Halo, and you get the same content that amused players for YEARS.
Anyone who thinks WoW is expensive by any metric needs to spend some quality time with a math book.
It wasn't a joke, it was a popular culture reference. I'd imagine that you're neither popular nor cultured; that would explain your total failure to 'get it'.
This analogy is completely valid. How is the RIAA supposed to pay for the jet fuel that powers their artists unless you buy their CDs?