In military parlance, "relatively harmless" means something different than what it does in the civilian world.
Civilian mostly harmless = Burning bag of dog poop on doorstep.
Military mostly harmless = 500 gallon burning drum of nitrates, greater than 75% chance of survival.
..... A constitutional amendment limiting donations ONLY to individual candidates, and limiting the amount annually is the only way people will have the power again.
I should elaborate: Limiting only individual donations to individual candidates, and furthermore limited in sum annually. These types of laws have been attempted before, but shot down as "limiting free speech" by the Supreme Court. That's why an amendment is needed.
There will never be any parties other than the R's and D's until the current system is over turned. Thanks to the last few decades of "campaign finance reform" and Supreme Court rulings, all the power is in the hand of the large donor special interest groups and corporations. These groups give the national party huge amounts of money. It isn't just Republicans..do you think the Democrats get the hundreds of millions of dollars to run campaigns each year from little old ladies coin purses and the dulled copper pennies of the downtrodden? Unelected people control the parties, and decide who runs in each election. Nobody turns out for primary elections but the true-believers, who vote exactly as they are told. A constitutional amendment limiting donations ONLY to individual candidates, and limiting the amount annually is the only way people will have the power again. Neither the Republican nor the Democrat party will ever allow this to happen. Stop voting Republican. Stop voting Democrat. Take back your power.
I would be upset at the bandwidth burned in the torrent for shitty cam rips. It's a horrible movie, and thanks to technology (and an extra fee for it on top of the admission) it sucks in 3 dimensions. He should have cut one of the gratuitous action and visual scenes that are so frequent they lose all their effect of awe, and hired a couple writers to write at least a mediocre story.
Timothy, this is reading comprehension calling, we need to talk. The name of the article is "Great and Disappointing" not "Best and Worse" nor is ugly mentioned. Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
NM sorry
Yes, except that the sea robot is entirely incapable of functioning outside of the parameters specifically set by it's operators. While the hype and glorification of past heroic events is surely interesting, the sea robot never at any time could say things like, "Fuck this I'm outta here" or, "JUST......ONE.......MORE........MILE/KILOMETER/HOGSHEAD/LEAGUE" nor could it ever contemplate it's place and others' perception of it should it fail or succeed. It at no time felt emotional pressure, real or perceived to impede or spur it to it's end. It just did. It was no more heroic(or less so for that matter) than your family car going 200,000 miles without an oil change instead of 20,000.
It's odd that everyone latched onto the "she" bit. The reason people are identified as hero's is not simply that they accomplish some feat, it's because they do so by persevering at great cost or difficulty. The robot had no choice, was completely incapable of making a selfish(or selfless) decision. It did exactly what it was supposed to do, within the parameters it was told to do so. It didn't care about the outcome either way. And of course, I for one welcome our sea traversing heroic female robot overlords.
If Avatar is the future of movies, then I guess I won't be seeing any more movies. It's in 3D OMFG! Who cares. I'll save the twenty bucks, tape a couple smurfs to my TV and watch Dances With Wolves. Or Pocahontas. Or Ferngully. Or any of twenty other movies that follow the exact same archetype. You'd think with more than a decade of development you could at least fool me through the trailer.
So..........industry bribes the politicians in power? Don't they understand their money would be better spent bribing the officials who weren't elected, and don't hold power?
And if that star has a planet that had a species that had a SETI fifty years ago, they would have to keep searching for another twenty to forty years to pick up evidence of Earth having an intelligent species. They'd be waiting until 2119 before they heard the first human voice.
And in 2200 the 2000kg tungsten slugs traveling at.9c begin crashing into the earth
"There's no idea so bizarre that it doesn't have its own constituency."
That's the nicest way I've ever heard Rule#34 stated. Also.... I'm old enough to have seen the special when it aired. I was 7 and understood then, as it was happening, that it was horrible.
Imagine the guy getting two hours of sleep before his watch beside his truck in the middle of Afghanistan because the weather makes it impossible to reach the main roads at the time. His two hours of sleep come rough due to massive amounts of adrenaline still coursing through his body as a physiological response to the hour small arms battle that saw the truck in front of him destroyed by an IED.
The truck was crewed by a couple of friends of his that he'd previously spent more than a year in training with, and they'd become pretty close. Their bodies are a on the other side of the camp, since the weather is so bad they couldn't get any air assets out tonight.
Poor weather combined with high altitude severely limit flight characteristics of helicopters, and red tape severely complicate fixed wing support. All that combined with the knowledge that the closest allied support by ground is three hours away, in the best conditions..and possible not even able to reach you at all due to weather created terrain problems, makes for a lot of fear when you wake up, because you are pretty much on your own, and this could be it.
..they have more stress than guys on the ground, 24/7 engaged.
What a hellish life full of stress......to without risk conduct your mission, and then go home to your family at the end of your shift. And all those fucking slackers actually under real fire and threat think they got it rough!
It's mostly because you have a gross misunderstanding of how the military works. When something gets fucked up, somebody is responsible for the fuck up. While that statement at first makes you say, "Well, duh!" you need to understand how it functions in the military. That statement is an absolute truth. There are no "whoops, nobody's fault" moments in the military. If something fucked up, SOMEBODY fucked up, and therefore, SOMEBODY will pay. Usually an officer is in charge, a relatively minor fuck up might be a slap on the wrist. A moderate fuck up, or a string of minor ones will result in a bad evaluation report which will prevent your promotion, and essentially make you a dead man walking. Major fuck ups are the end of your career. There isn't a chart somewhere delineating all the fuck-up degrees, but I'm sure as they watched iconic building collapsing in flames, they assumed it was pretty major. This results in many waves of ass-covering, as really major fuck ups tend to take out swaths of officers and NCO's. To a third party observer, the ass covering to save yourself from the "SOMEBODY will pay" maxim probably seems sinister..as if they were hiding something. But in reality, they are just trying to hide what they assume to be their vulnerable behinds.
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Hell, Lomborg fucked her!
That's why we'll genetically engineer cactars to eat the mirrorwing mosquitoes. What could possible go awry?
Came to read about commandos being the best employer. Left disappointed. Watched "Who Dares, Wins" to recover.
My space shuttle was equipped with the following:
In military parlance, "relatively harmless" means something different than what it does in the civilian world.
Civilian mostly harmless = Burning bag of dog poop on doorstep. Military mostly harmless = 500 gallon burning drum of nitrates, greater than 75% chance of survival.
I should elaborate: Limiting only individual donations to individual candidates, and furthermore limited in sum annually. These types of laws have been attempted before, but shot down as "limiting free speech" by the Supreme Court. That's why an amendment is needed.
There will never be any parties other than the R's and D's until the current system is over turned. Thanks to the last few decades of "campaign finance reform" and Supreme Court rulings, all the power is in the hand of the large donor special interest groups and corporations. These groups give the national party huge amounts of money. It isn't just Republicans..do you think the Democrats get the hundreds of millions of dollars to run campaigns each year from little old ladies coin purses and the dulled copper pennies of the downtrodden? Unelected people control the parties, and decide who runs in each election. Nobody turns out for primary elections but the true-believers, who vote exactly as they are told. A constitutional amendment limiting donations ONLY to individual candidates, and limiting the amount annually is the only way people will have the power again. Neither the Republican nor the Democrat party will ever allow this to happen. Stop voting Republican. Stop voting Democrat. Take back your power.
wokka wokka!
In order for the National Aeronautics(rockets) and Space(rockets) Administration to be successful, they have launch...............rockets?
I would be upset at the bandwidth burned in the torrent for shitty cam rips. It's a horrible movie, and thanks to technology (and an extra fee for it on top of the admission) it sucks in 3 dimensions. He should have cut one of the gratuitous action and visual scenes that are so frequent they lose all their effect of awe, and hired a couple writers to write at least a mediocre story.
Timothy, this is reading comprehension calling, we need to talk. The name of the article is "Great and Disappointing" not "Best and Worse" nor is ugly mentioned. Oh wait, this is Slashdot. NM sorry
Only after we develop the ginger bomb.
I disagree, TPM could have been fixed by ONE thing. Lawrence Kasdan.
Yes, except that the sea robot is entirely incapable of functioning outside of the parameters specifically set by it's operators. While the hype and glorification of past heroic events is surely interesting, the sea robot never at any time could say things like, "Fuck this I'm outta here" or, "JUST......ONE.......MORE........MILE/KILOMETER/HOGSHEAD/LEAGUE" nor could it ever contemplate it's place and others' perception of it should it fail or succeed. It at no time felt emotional pressure, real or perceived to impede or spur it to it's end. It just did. It was no more heroic(or less so for that matter) than your family car going 200,000 miles without an oil change instead of 20,000.
It's odd that everyone latched onto the "she" bit. The reason people are identified as hero's is not simply that they accomplish some feat, it's because they do so by persevering at great cost or difficulty. The robot had no choice, was completely incapable of making a selfish(or selfless) decision. It did exactly what it was supposed to do, within the parameters it was told to do so. It didn't care about the outcome either way. And of course, I for one welcome our sea traversing heroic female robot overlords.
If Avatar is the future of movies, then I guess I won't be seeing any more movies. It's in 3D OMFG! Who cares. I'll save the twenty bucks, tape a couple smurfs to my TV and watch Dances With Wolves. Or Pocahontas. Or Ferngully. Or any of twenty other movies that follow the exact same archetype. You'd think with more than a decade of development you could at least fool me through the trailer.
So..........industry bribes the politicians in power? Don't they understand their money would be better spent bribing the officials who weren't elected, and don't hold power?
at least until we find something in the .8 to 2.0 Earth masses range which would be quite the news.
Wake me up when you find a .8 to 1.2 Earth masses with oxygen and water.
And if that star has a planet that had a species that had a SETI fifty years ago, they would have to keep searching for another twenty to forty years to pick up evidence of Earth having an intelligent species. They'd be waiting until 2119 before they heard the first human voice.
And in 2200 the 2000kg tungsten slugs traveling at .9c begin crashing into the earth
"There's no idea so bizarre that it doesn't have its own constituency."
That's the nicest way I've ever heard Rule#34 stated. Also.... I'm old enough to have seen the special when it aired. I was 7 and understood then, as it was happening, that it was horrible.
Imagine the guy getting two hours of sleep before his watch beside his truck in the middle of Afghanistan because the weather makes it impossible to reach the main roads at the time. His two hours of sleep come rough due to massive amounts of adrenaline still coursing through his body as a physiological response to the hour small arms battle that saw the truck in front of him destroyed by an IED. The truck was crewed by a couple of friends of his that he'd previously spent more than a year in training with, and they'd become pretty close. Their bodies are a on the other side of the camp, since the weather is so bad they couldn't get any air assets out tonight. Poor weather combined with high altitude severely limit flight characteristics of helicopters, and red tape severely complicate fixed wing support. All that combined with the knowledge that the closest allied support by ground is three hours away, in the best conditions..and possible not even able to reach you at all due to weather created terrain problems, makes for a lot of fear when you wake up, because you are pretty much on your own, and this could be it.
The Larramans Organ and Sus-An Membrane are far behind.
..they have more stress than guys on the ground, 24/7 engaged.
What a hellish life full of stress......to without risk conduct your mission, and then go home to your family at the end of your shift. And all those fucking slackers actually under real fire and threat think they got it rough!
..sscccraattch...NOBODY expects the end of the Spanish Inquisition!
It's mostly because you have a gross misunderstanding of how the military works. When something gets fucked up, somebody is responsible for the fuck up. While that statement at first makes you say, "Well, duh!" you need to understand how it functions in the military. That statement is an absolute truth. There are no "whoops, nobody's fault" moments in the military. If something fucked up, SOMEBODY fucked up, and therefore, SOMEBODY will pay. Usually an officer is in charge, a relatively minor fuck up might be a slap on the wrist. A moderate fuck up, or a string of minor ones will result in a bad evaluation report which will prevent your promotion, and essentially make you a dead man walking. Major fuck ups are the end of your career. There isn't a chart somewhere delineating all the fuck-up degrees, but I'm sure as they watched iconic building collapsing in flames, they assumed it was pretty major. This results in many waves of ass-covering, as really major fuck ups tend to take out swaths of officers and NCO's. To a third party observer, the ass covering to save yourself from the "SOMEBODY will pay" maxim probably seems sinister..as if they were hiding something. But in reality, they are just trying to hide what they assume to be their vulnerable behinds.