Every year, my family has a tradition of holding money - at least a dollar - at midnight, as a sort of spell to make sure that we will be holding money the whole year. Silly superstition, and the kids know it is, but it is still kind of a fun little thing.
Getting rid of phone booths is all part of a plot by Torchwood to make it easier to monitor time travelers: First, they eliminate police boxes so they can spot The Doctor right away if he shows up, and now they're targeting Bill and Ted, too. The only reason they aren't buying up DeLoreans is that Marty's got destroyed - BUT HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW HARD IT IS TO BUY FLYING STEAM LOCOMOTIVES?!
It would seem to be both, actually, since the time period that Star Trek Online takes place in is still regarded at TNG era, and that starts in 2409. Nerds these days, indeed.:arches eyebrow:
Sounds like it was A Beautiful Day, even if the plane you saw was a bit of a Lemon that behaved in Mysterious Ways. Sounds like another case where the Desire shown in their blueprints and plans turned out to be Even Better Than The Real Thing.
Cats are just as "human smart" as dogs, but they have a reversed perception of the relationship. For example, one of my cats will wake me up within about 10 minutes of the correct time if my alarm doesn't go off. Does she do this for me? No. She does it because she gets tummy rubs in the morning while I'm getting ready. Another cat has taken to tapping me awake sometimes in the middle of the night to let me know that he needs me to open the bedroom door. He needs the litter box, and so he needs my thumbs to get the door open.
Cats don't learn tricks for us. Cats make US learn tricks.
That would be really cool, but can you imagine the social implications when people start "skinning" their realities so they don't have to see slums or homeless people?
one can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues.
One also can't help but wonder if it would lead to people expressing opinions anonymously that they would might be SHAMED out of expressing if they had to do it to your face. Racist sentiments come to mind, for example. If this were used to shape laws and policies, it could be a dangerous thing. Some opinions don't need to be heard - and even their holders know it....
"While the name of the bank has not been revealed, the article indicates that the bank in question is Citibank."
Don't know about you, but that seems kind of "revealed", to me, doesn't it to you? I think the folks running Slashdot say stuff like this just to generate additional conversation about how wrong it is!
Kinda like Jadzia Dax from DS9 - the hussy who quit DS9 just before the last season because she wanted more money. And was already getting more per episode than most of us make in a year. I can't even watch an episode of Becker without becoming a bit cross.
You are making the all too common mistake of confusing law enforcement with law MAKING. We WANT our law enforcement officials to be as efficient and work as well as possible (within the law) in enforcing the laws - REGARDLESS of whether we approve of those laws! Our opinion of the laws themselves is something to be taken up with legislators when they are making/amending them, and with courts when they provide opportunity to review them - NOT with the cops.
And the police deciding you are a suspect is not the same thing as a conviction - that is the whole POINT of separation of powers.
I'm as concerned about protecting civil liberties as anyone, but sometimes it seems like we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, arguing too many angles. I understand the whole "if I'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to hide" fallacy, but folks, let's let the authorities have the DNA, anyway. As long as we are VIGILANT about the court system and the way they use the DNA, who cares that they have it - other than that it may make their jobs easier.
No system of law enforcement is EVER perfect. The idea is to make it operate as well as POSSIBLE. And if they have my DNA on file, that's just as likely to mean they can eliminate me as a suspect as it is to mean they declare me one....
Whenever I was young and used to get in trouble, my mom used to say something about being put so far under the jail they'd have to pipe sunshine to me - and now someone has gone and made that possible!
Hmm...a short list off the top of my head: 1. 'Recording' Civilization Advance - allows for construction of the Movie Theater improvement. (A humorous metagame side-effect could be that it opens up a new game menu for playing your own MP3s as background music.) Allows profession:artists to be considered productive for trade in addition to making citizens happy. In combination with Radio, allows construction of Big Three Networks wonder, that makes it harder for citizens to stay mad. 2. A physical layer for the communications that can be damaged, and without a connection from an area to your capital, you can't see what units on the border are doing (until maybe a couple of turns later?) Layer is made irrelevant with invention of Radio advance. 3. Time tightens to months with the invention of radio, weeks with the invention of the Internet, but doesn't speed up actual progress for civs that don't have them. (Better have spies/diplomats in place, to acquire them quickly! Or maybe capturing any unit from a civ with it in your territory would have a chance of giving you Internet, and capturing a city automatically would?) 4. The ability to attack foreign units in your country without your permission, without it automatically being an act of war! (If anything, THEY should be smoothing things over after that, most of the time. One of the most unrealistic aspects of Civ, IMHO.) 5. Railroads upgrade to Interstates, which can be used for emergency aircraft landing sites, but aircraft landed there must have fuel brought to them by another unit. 6. Future Tech that is more than a name, but is reasonably extrapolated from current trends - anti-matter weapons, matter fabricators, etc. - with actual game effects. 7. MANY more detailed units, military and otherwise, and many more trade goods.
As you can see, I want Civ to have so much detail that it can take a month to play a game.;)
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Yes. It's a metaphor, ya idgit.
Every year, my family has a tradition of holding money - at least a dollar - at midnight, as a sort of spell to make sure that we will be holding money the whole year. Silly superstition, and the kids know it is, but it is still kind of a fun little thing.
Shouldn't you play "Never Gonna Give You Up", instead? Rickrolling your turkey ensures even cooking on all sides.
Getting rid of phone booths is all part of a plot by Torchwood to make it easier to monitor time travelers: First, they eliminate police boxes so they can spot The Doctor right away if he shows up, and now they're targeting Bill and Ted, too. The only reason they aren't buying up DeLoreans is that Marty's got destroyed - BUT HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW HARD IT IS TO BUY FLYING STEAM LOCOMOTIVES?!
It would seem to be both, actually, since the time period that Star Trek Online takes place in is still regarded at TNG era, and that starts in 2409. Nerds these days, indeed. :arches eyebrow:
Hey, maybe they could bring back Clippy in their new line of phone OS software, as their answer to Siri!
Hey, ease up, Zadaz. You'd probably be an irritating asshole if you were a god of death, too.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Kelemvor
Sounds like it was A Beautiful Day, even if the plane you saw was a bit of a Lemon that behaved in Mysterious Ways. Sounds like another case where the Desire shown in their blueprints and plans turned out to be Even Better Than The Real Thing.
I'm not sure what is supposed to be Funny about this. I'll second the bro hug, and without being an anonymous coward.
Our family is who we choose. Blood is an accident.
Wouldn't that make the carpenter's helper a bit of a tool for not saying anything then?
The Game. He lost The Game. And now, so have I, damn it!
Indeed. I live in South Carolina, and if I leave the house I can see the Confederate flag being flown several times *daily*.
How much does it cost to try to file for a trademark like this?
How much free advertising is Nintendo getting for their upcoming DK sequel from various news outlets for *trying* to?
Does anyone think Nintendo even *cares* if they get the trademark or not?
I've thought about this some lately, and I think my response is: When your company has publicly traded shares, or a significant foreign interest.
I wouldn't be so sure. Any port in a storm, IYKWIMAITYD. ;-)
Cats are just as "human smart" as dogs, but they have a reversed perception of the relationship. For example, one of my cats will wake me up within about 10 minutes of the correct time if my alarm doesn't go off. Does she do this for me? No. She does it because she gets tummy rubs in the morning while I'm getting ready. Another cat has taken to tapping me awake sometimes in the middle of the night to let me know that he needs me to open the bedroom door. He needs the litter box, and so he needs my thumbs to get the door open.
Cats don't learn tricks for us. Cats make US learn tricks.
That would be really cool, but can you imagine the social implications when people start "skinning" their realities so they don't have to see slums or homeless people?
One also can't help but wonder if it would lead to people expressing opinions anonymously that they would might be SHAMED out of expressing if they had to do it to your face. Racist sentiments come to mind, for example. If this were used to shape laws and policies, it could be a dangerous thing. Some opinions don't need to be heard - and even their holders know it....
"While the name of the bank has not been revealed, the article indicates that the bank in question is Citibank."
Don't know about you, but that seems kind of "revealed", to me, doesn't it to you? I think the folks running Slashdot say stuff like this just to generate additional conversation about how wrong it is!
Kinda like Jadzia Dax from DS9 - the hussy who quit DS9 just before the last season because she wanted more money. And was already getting more per episode than most of us make in a year. I can't even watch an episode of Becker without becoming a bit cross.
You are making the all too common mistake of confusing law enforcement with law MAKING. We WANT our law enforcement officials to be as efficient and work as well as possible (within the law) in enforcing the laws - REGARDLESS of whether we approve of those laws! Our opinion of the laws themselves is something to be taken up with legislators when they are making/amending them, and with courts when they provide opportunity to review them - NOT with the cops.
And the police deciding you are a suspect is not the same thing as a conviction - that is the whole POINT of separation of powers.
I'm as concerned about protecting civil liberties as anyone, but sometimes it seems like we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, arguing too many angles. I understand the whole "if I'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to hide" fallacy, but folks, let's let the authorities have the DNA, anyway. As long as we are VIGILANT about the court system and the way they use the DNA, who cares that they have it - other than that it may make their jobs easier.
No system of law enforcement is EVER perfect. The idea is to make it operate as well as POSSIBLE. And if they have my DNA on file, that's just as likely to mean they can eliminate me as a suspect as it is to mean they declare me one....
Whenever I was young and used to get in trouble, my mom used to say something about being put so far under the jail they'd have to pipe sunshine to me - and now someone has gone and made that possible!
I guess now we know - Bluetooth is the frequency, Kenneth!
Hmm...a short list off the top of my head:
;)
1. 'Recording' Civilization Advance - allows for construction of the Movie Theater improvement. (A humorous metagame side-effect could be that it opens up a new game menu for playing your own MP3s as background music.) Allows profession:artists to be considered productive for trade in addition to making citizens happy. In combination with Radio, allows construction of Big Three Networks wonder, that makes it harder for citizens to stay mad.
2. A physical layer for the communications that can be damaged, and without a connection from an area to your capital, you can't see what units on the border are doing (until maybe a couple of turns later?) Layer is made irrelevant with invention of Radio advance.
3. Time tightens to months with the invention of radio, weeks with the invention of the Internet, but doesn't speed up actual progress for civs that don't have them. (Better have spies/diplomats in place, to acquire them quickly! Or maybe capturing any unit from a civ with it in your territory would have a chance of giving you Internet, and capturing a city automatically would?)
4. The ability to attack foreign units in your country without your permission, without it automatically being an act of war! (If anything, THEY should be smoothing things over after that, most of the time. One of the most unrealistic aspects of Civ, IMHO.)
5. Railroads upgrade to Interstates, which can be used for emergency aircraft landing sites, but aircraft landed there must have fuel brought to them by another unit.
6. Future Tech that is more than a name, but is reasonably extrapolated from current trends - anti-matter weapons, matter fabricators, etc. - with actual game effects.
7. MANY more detailed units, military and otherwise, and many more trade goods.
As you can see, I want Civ to have so much detail that it can take a month to play a game.