I saw a competition on the local cable access channel. It was highschoolers competeing and it was at least as exciting as battle bots ever was. Some of them seem to have had some pretty complex behaviors programmed. At anyrate they were interested and enjoying themselves (the students, not sure about the robots)
I watched the new show last night. Some crazy cars driving down a giant bowling ally and crashing into huge pins. It was fairly entertaining I guess.
Anyway, I'm not a big Rollins fan but I thought he fit the part just fine. He's pretty tough looking and doesn't talk like a complete idiot. At least he doesn't ham-it-up. I've had it up to here with hosts that ham-it-up.
Isn't this what Bhagwan Shri Rashneesh on a smaller scale to the town of Antelope Oregon in the 80's. Basically his followers outnumbered the original townsfolk and were thus able to take over city counsel and rule the town. Once in power they did things like renaming all the streets closing the schools and starting up there own 'security forces'. Oh yeah, and practiced biological warfare
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I'm not saying he was shafted, I'm saying he was not well paid for his work. I didn't say they committed fraud or breached his contract either.
He's not complaining, its work... I'm just pointing out that the company's money is being spent on higher-ups salary's and golden parachutes as opposed to the people producing value for the company. I know that's not unusual.
As you say it IS a lesson learned for him; That is, why I'm sharing it with others. The lesson he learned was don't do buisiness with WotC. But I doubt that that is, as you said 'what they were after in the deal'.
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I have a good friend who was commissioned to do a 'magic: the gathering' card for WotC. When he told me about it I thought he'd get some big bucks for it, but he didn't. He got about $4,000. I'm not an artist and I don't buy or sell art. It's just my opinion as an independent contractor that that was pretty cheap.
It took him about 2 months to finish the work. He had to research former art and make sure his phyrexians (sp?) looked right and such. My point here being it took some effort to meet the standards. It's not like he just whipped out some cool fantasy art and they bought it.
I guess the pay is good considering he's an unknown and the original work was only 8"x10"ish; But, this all happened just about at the peak of Magic and I know I spent way more money on cards then I should have. How much can cards cost to print?
Anyway, it must be a great portfolio peace but $4,000 doesn't go real far in Seattle. Where did the money go exactly? To only a very few people I guess.
Actually explosive energy can be directed in a very precise direction. At least this is true for conventional explosives. It's called a 'shaped charge' and I think its at least 1940's technology.
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Baum.html has some interesting pictures, but the jist of it is shaping your explosive in a concave fashion so that the shockwave bounces off itself (if you can't imagine that do a google for 'shaped charge').
In the military I used shaped charges that drilled an almost perfect cylindrical hole in the ground about 1' or less in diameter and about 1 meter into the ground. It was really strange to see. The sides of the hole would be perfectly smooth.
Is a shaped nuclear charge possible, that sounds pretty intense!
Only criminals, everyone in the military, many public school teachers and anyone who's had any-number of modern day background checks requiring a fingerprint.
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That sounds like the FIRST Robotics program.
I saw a competition on the local cable access channel. It was highschoolers competeing and it was at least as exciting as battle bots ever was. Some of them seem to have had some pretty complex behaviors programmed. At anyrate they were interested and enjoying themselves (the students, not sure about the robots)
I watched the new show last night. Some crazy cars driving down a giant bowling ally and crashing into huge pins. It was fairly entertaining I guess.
Anyway, I'm not a big Rollins fan but I thought he fit the part just fine. He's pretty tough looking and doesn't talk like a complete idiot. At least he doesn't ham-it-up. I've had it up to here with hosts that ham-it-up.
Isn't this what Bhagwan Shri Rashneesh on a smaller scale to the town of Antelope Oregon in the 80's. Basically his followers outnumbered the original townsfolk and were thus able to take over city counsel and rule the town. Once in power they did things like renaming all the streets closing the schools and starting up there own 'security forces'. Oh yeah, and practiced biological warfare
I'm not saying he was shafted, I'm saying he was not well paid for his work. I didn't say they committed fraud or breached his contract either.
... I'm just pointing out that the company's money is being spent on higher-ups salary's and golden parachutes as opposed to the people producing value for the company. I know that's not unusual.
He's not complaining, its work
As you say it IS a lesson learned for him; That is, why I'm sharing it with others. The lesson he learned was don't do buisiness with WotC. But I doubt that that is, as you said 'what they were after in the deal'.
I have a good friend who was commissioned to do a 'magic: the gathering' card for WotC. When he told me about it I thought he'd get some big bucks for it, but he didn't. He got about $4,000. I'm not an artist and I don't buy or sell art. It's just my opinion as an independent contractor that that was pretty cheap.
It took him about 2 months to finish the work. He had to research former art and make sure his phyrexians (sp?) looked right and such. My point here being it took some effort to meet the standards. It's not like he just whipped out some cool fantasy art and they bought it.
I guess the pay is good considering he's an unknown and the original work was only 8"x10"ish; But, this all happened just about at the peak of Magic and I know I spent way more money on cards then I should have. How much can cards cost to print?
Anyway, it must be a great portfolio peace but $4,000 doesn't go real far in Seattle. Where did the money go exactly? To only a very few people I guess.
Actually explosive energy can be directed in a very precise direction. At least this is true for conventional explosives. It's called a 'shaped charge' and I think its at least 1940's technology.
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Baum.html has some interesting pictures, but the jist of it is shaping your explosive in a concave fashion so that the shockwave bounces off itself (if you can't imagine that do a google for 'shaped charge').
In the military I used shaped charges that drilled an almost perfect cylindrical hole in the ground about 1' or less in diameter and about 1 meter into the ground. It was really strange to see. The sides of the hole would be perfectly smooth.
Is a shaped nuclear charge possible, that sounds pretty intense!
Only criminals, everyone in the military, many public school teachers and anyone who's had any-number of modern day background checks requiring a fingerprint.
.. they practically have us already.
News Flash: they are already trying to get everyone on file