These text mods are great, but I can't wait until id releases the game dll source - then the REAL fun starts.
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The problem is, though, quantum entanglement can't really transmit information. You can use it to multiply the amount of information transmitted by an amazing amount, but the fundamental semantic structure of the information MUST be transferred causally - that is, at lightspeed.
That depends. The Republicans want everyone to have the right to kill and cook as many turkeys as they can. The Democrats want a vast turkey-distribution network, warehoused at the turkey slaughterhouses, to ensure that everyone gets their fair share of turkey, and to make sure that utilization of the turkey resource is maximized. The Independants think we should just buy the turkey raw at the store and cook it at home, and let the market determine capacity. As a turkey, which would you rather see?
Look at it this way: This is just further proof that in a free and open capitalistic society, even "the truth" has economic value, and control over it can be purchased. Of course, that price can be prohibitively large, but once your economy starts going Pareto (and it inevitably will), you get things like this. The solution is either bloody revolution every 20 years, or fascism. At least in our current model, the upper and middle classes get to experience the metaphoric convenience of the trains arriving on time.
So what happens when the capacitors on the guns get hit? You know, the ones storing the 10^15 KeV (or whatever) necessary to launch these projectiles 250 miles out?
Even with no aging and no disease, you don't get 'forever', you just get 'an arbitrarily long time'. Eventually, somehow, SOMETHING will get to you. Entropy is, in fact, inevitable.
I don't know if it was a troll - it sounded to me like a precise description of the US's current "you're either with us or with the terrorists" strategy.
And the more fervent people get about finding and punishing the people who produce child porn, the more the government reacts by finding and punishing the people who receive child porn - willingly or not.
Interesting thoughts - If Britain did withdraw from the EU - which is entirely possible, considering it shares much more cultural common ground with the US and Canada than with the rest of Europe - the remaining EU would be much more accomodating to Russia. Is it possible within our lifetime that we'll actually see the world divided into Oceana, Eurasia and Eastasia factions, albiet with different names?
Umm, the people this would benefit are the ones who typically aren't at risk to AIDS anyways.
Porn actors and actresses won't be saved by this so much as put out of the industry altogether, except as motion-capture models or likeness models - the thing that makes porn a worthwhile career choice for these people is the pay and the availability, both of which dry up when we can replace them with a render farm.
Not that going into porn is a good thing, but for some people it's the best alternative they have, or they wouldn't be doing it. Porn's a bit safer than streetwalking, after all.
Yes and no. You'll note that far, FAR more indigenous populations acquire it than, say, Europeans. That's because there's two ways your metabolism can 'gear': you can either be geared to burn sugar quickly - in which case you wind up a lot more active when there's lots of food, but die of starvation during a famine, or you can be geared to burn it slowly - in which case, you can survive famine a lot better, but will tend to develop obesity and diabetes if exposed to too much sugary food. The introduction of modern agriculture and food processing to any culture means a large segment of its population dies from diabetes, and the rest are incapable of surviving famine.
First, if we take 'a shit' to be the amount of effort required for an average european male to evacuate his bowels, precisely 2.5 hours after eating 451 grams (one serving) of Kellog's shredded wheat (plus or minus 5% for generic store brands), then we have a rather precise handle on what the phrase "I don't give a shit" means. Now. We'll call this the "metric shit". Taking a sample of 217 average adult male rats, the volume of excrement produced, on average, equals one metric shit's worth every week and a half. Given the average rat's metabolism, we find that a rat's body undergoes complete cellular mitosis roughly every fourty five weeks. Thus, a rat's ass is not, in fact, the same ass it had 11 months ago, and the timespan of a rat's ass is roughly 10.4 months. Thus, through its lifespan, one rat's ass produces (45 / 1.5) = 30 shits. Thus, we now know exactly what is meant by "I could give a rat's ass". Extrapolating further, this same sample of 217 rats was used to determine exactly how many rat's asses are required before a flying fuck is achieved (details classified to protect the experimenters' privacy from the prying eyes of the SPCA). It was determined that one flying fuck is, in fact, achievable after only 3 rats are airborne, in optimal conditions. The actual number is closer to 3.27 So, one flying fuck is equal to 101 shits, with a margin of error of 5%. This moment of science brought to you by 217 dead rats and a whole fucking lot of rock cocaine.
Luckily, the communications protocol is adaptive, and will re-wire itself to use whatever wires happen to still work, as long as there are enough of them, regardless of what they do.
You'll never dance ballet again, of course, but you'll do reasonably well in day-to-day activities - and if you perform the surgery early enough (say, below age 6), there won't be a noticable difference in performance by the time they're an adult.
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These text mods are great, but I can't wait until id releases the game dll source - then the REAL fun starts.
The problem is, though, quantum entanglement can't really transmit information. You can use it to multiply the amount of information transmitted by an amazing amount, but the fundamental semantic structure of the information MUST be transferred causally - that is, at lightspeed.
Eh, give me a few days once the mod toolset comes out, I promise you'll get a good co-op.
I gave it a shot last week in my livejournal. Hope this helps.
Heh. So, between corporate fascism and socialist totalitarianism, what sounds better to you?
That depends. The Republicans want everyone to have the right to kill and cook as many turkeys as they can. The Democrats want a vast turkey-distribution network, warehoused at the turkey slaughterhouses, to ensure that everyone gets their fair share of turkey, and to make sure that utilization of the turkey resource is maximized. The Independants think we should just buy the turkey raw at the store and cook it at home, and let the market determine capacity. As a turkey, which would you rather see?
Look at it this way: This is just further proof that in a free and open capitalistic society, even "the truth" has economic value, and control over it can be purchased. Of course, that price can be prohibitively large, but once your economy starts going Pareto (and it inevitably will), you get things like this. The solution is either bloody revolution every 20 years, or fascism. At least in our current model, the upper and middle classes get to experience the metaphoric convenience of the trains arriving on time.
So what happens when the capacitors on the guns get hit? You know, the ones storing the 10^15 KeV (or whatever) necessary to launch these projectiles 250 miles out?
Even with no aging and no disease, you don't get 'forever', you just get 'an arbitrarily long time'. Eventually, somehow, SOMETHING will get to you. Entropy is, in fact, inevitable.
Not to nitpick, but the words "without exception" ALWAYS raises a red-flag. There are ALWAYS exceptions, even if they're only theoretical.
I don't know if it was a troll - it sounded to me like a precise description of the US's current "you're either with us or with the terrorists" strategy.
Yet that's exactly what's happening.
And the more fervent people get about finding and punishing the people who produce child porn, the more the government reacts by finding and punishing the people who receive child porn - willingly or not.
They need to bring back the death penalty for the people who rape children producing this stuff.
As a viewer of said filth, that would include YOU. Remember, in the eyes of the law, what you did was exactly as bad.
So be careful how thick that brush is before you dip it into the tar, unless you don't mind getting some on yourself.
I'm afraid you might have a leak.
But a sufficiently dominant China could just steamroll over all its opposition, funding communist states until it's all one unified hemisphere.
Interesting thoughts - If Britain did withdraw from the EU - which is entirely possible, considering it shares much more cultural common ground with the US and Canada than with the rest of Europe - the remaining EU would be much more accomodating to Russia. Is it possible within our lifetime that we'll actually see the world divided into Oceana, Eurasia and Eastasia factions, albiet with different names?
How... Aristotlean.
Yes, it's absolutely possible to simulate these. In most current cases, we just don't have sufficient processor power to do so in real-time yet.
Go read Douglas Hopfstaedter's writings sometime, it's fascinating stuff.
I'm sure once this thing is deployed, the boys at Okinawa will rest a little easier inside the range of North Korea's nuclear umbrella.
Umm, the people this would benefit are the ones who typically aren't at risk to AIDS anyways.
Porn actors and actresses won't be saved by this so much as put out of the industry altogether, except as motion-capture models or likeness models - the thing that makes porn a worthwhile career choice for these people is the pay and the availability, both of which dry up when we can replace them with a render farm.
Not that going into porn is a good thing, but for some people it's the best alternative they have, or they wouldn't be doing it. Porn's a bit safer than streetwalking, after all.
Yes and no. You'll note that far, FAR more indigenous populations acquire it than, say, Europeans. That's because there's two ways your metabolism can 'gear': you can either be geared to burn sugar quickly - in which case you wind up a lot more active when there's lots of food, but die of starvation during a famine, or you can be geared to burn it slowly - in which case, you can survive famine a lot better, but will tend to develop obesity and diabetes if exposed to too much sugary food. The introduction of modern agriculture and food processing to any culture means a large segment of its population dies from diabetes, and the rest are incapable of surviving famine.
Sickle-cell anemia and type II diabetes, for two.
From wherethesundontshine.net:
First, if we take 'a shit' to be the amount of effort required for an average european male to evacuate his bowels, precisely 2.5 hours after eating 451 grams (one serving) of Kellog's shredded wheat (plus or minus 5% for generic store brands), then we have a rather precise handle on what the phrase "I don't give a shit" means. Now. We'll call this the "metric shit". Taking a sample of 217 average adult male rats, the volume of excrement produced, on average, equals one metric shit's worth every week and a half. Given the average rat's metabolism, we find that a rat's body undergoes complete cellular mitosis roughly every fourty five weeks. Thus, a rat's ass is not, in fact, the same ass it had 11 months ago, and the timespan of a rat's ass is roughly 10.4 months. Thus, through its lifespan, one rat's ass produces (45 / 1.5) = 30 shits. Thus, we now know exactly what is meant by "I could give a rat's ass". Extrapolating further, this same sample of 217 rats was used to determine exactly how many rat's asses are required before a flying fuck is achieved (details classified to protect the experimenters' privacy from the prying eyes of the SPCA). It was determined that one flying fuck is, in fact, achievable after only 3 rats are airborne, in optimal conditions. The actual number is closer to 3.27 So, one flying fuck is equal to 101 shits, with a margin of error of 5%. This moment of science brought to you by 217 dead rats and a whole fucking lot of rock cocaine.
[M]ore than 70% of people would willingly give up their computer password in exchange for as little as a bar of chocolate
So, what would YOU do for a Klondike bar?
THat's not a "freedom" - that's luck.
Luckily, the communications protocol is adaptive, and will re-wire itself to use whatever wires happen to still work, as long as there are enough of them, regardless of what they do.
You'll never dance ballet again, of course, but you'll do reasonably well in day-to-day activities - and if you perform the surgery early enough (say, below age 6), there won't be a noticable difference in performance by the time they're an adult.