...is that they're experimenting with growing crystals that will produce a beam of light approximately 1 metre long that will cut through just about anything*, with good enough energy efficiency that together with the battery it'll be the size of a long torch.
Although there will be different colours, bad people will only get to have one colour: red.
* The beams cannot cut through each other, nor a black material that Thrawn used. Can't remember it's called.
Starflight (released in the 80s) did something similar. The DRM key was a coloured A3 sized star map (paper poster) of the stars in the game. No colour photocopiers in those days, so photocopying didn't work so well. (I tried.)
Each time you took off, you had to consult the star map, and if you got it wrong, then as you traveled through space you'd eventually be stopped by alien spaceships that looked remarkably like police cars. If you failed their test, then they'd blast you to smithereens, as they were unbeatable.
Actually, Starflight and Starflight 2 are games that I'd really like to see modern remakes of.
Yes: In organised religions the aim is to maintain a membership base and fear is a good way to prevent people from leaving.
No: In non-organised religions there is no such aim. Instead the aim is to find purpose in life. One is expected and encouraged to challenge the religion by questioning everything about it.
Examples of non-organised religions (actually more like spiritual beliefs) are Buddhism, Shamanism, Gnosticism...
The guy with the tire iron might crack me over the head before making his getaway.
The guy with the gun might shoot you in the head before making his getaway...for the same reasons.
I would rather face off against a guy with a melee weapon than a guy with a gun, because then at least I stand a chance to retaliate (successful or not), simply because it's somewhat harder to dodge/parry a bullet than a melee weapon.
Also, robberies generally rely on surprise, and no robber will allow you to pull your own weapon, so carrying any kind of weapon for self defence is pointless once the robbery is taking place.
That said, I understand what another poster wrote about him showcasing the futility in gun control (or control in general).
Even older adages are: "Ignorance is bliss." and "Knowledge is power."
If only we had that choice. Unfortunately we don't get actual knowledge in the news. Which, as you say, leaves only the 1st option as a viable alternative.
But maybe (tinfoil hat here) that is intentional. Less knowledge to the plebs, means less power to the plebs.
Also, the longer we wait, the more powerful weapons they have time to accumulate. If the war had been fought fifteen years ago, then they wouldn't have been a nuclear threat. Now they are. Perhaps NK now feels that it has accumumlated enough that it might actually be ready to fight the war that it has been preparing for for so long, and it's once again testing and taunting its "enemies".
If you're worried about accidents, then you're worried about deaths and and sickness. But fossil fuels are worse.
If you're worried about weaponisation, then you're worried about deaths. The cat's out of the bag, and not using nuclear power stations won't stop people from making bombs.
Perhaps it's a shill post. Perhaps it's an honest personal opinion.
Anecdotal experience, no facts even supporting the opinion.
Let's assume for a moment that it's not a shill...
Being a personal opinion it would be, by definition, anecdotal.
Being a personal opinion it would be based on feelings, not facts.
Either way, it won't make any difference to someone who has simply decided to feel anti, come hell or high water.
What I'm saying is, being a vehement anti-shill doesn't make you more objective. It makes you just as closed minded as a paid shill. (Actually, possibly more so, because a shill may not privately agree to to the claims.)
(Personally I don't don't have an opinion about Win8 as I don't use it. But that not the point of my post.)
crazy performance artist replaces his/her skull with a transparent one. I guess they would have to wear a hat whenever they went out into the sun though.
mouse forced to RUN when a blue light is shone onto it's motor cortex
So, said artist would need to wear a hat to not run around uncontrollably. Trying to work out if wearing a transparent skull would be a bright idea. !-)
Where I live there are no gun shops at all (clearly not in the US) but we do have several supermarkets nearby.
I'm boggled by such a high density of gun shops, while clearly they're all doing good business. The closest we come to buying weapons here are martial arts shops (few real weapons though), kitchen shops (knives) and hardware shops (axes, hammers, etc.). All of them are at a density of one for every few suburbs. Not even close to the density of gun shops you describe. Truly mind boggling.
It's one thing for you to look at me, it's a whole other thing when your machine does it.
Good point (though not the point you were making). I wonder how people would react when they review footage from their eyes and realise that the original viewing was interpreted differently to later reviews.
...if only they could try to not break the extended universe. If they would maintain the extended universe then, aside from being respectful to fans and authors (who have painstakingly ensured continuity), some of those stories would make good movies.
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...is that they're experimenting with growing crystals that will produce a beam of light approximately 1 metre long that will cut through just about anything*, with good enough energy efficiency that together with the battery it'll be the size of a long torch.
Although there will be different colours, bad people will only get to have one colour: red.
* The beams cannot cut through each other, nor a black material that Thrawn used. Can't remember it's called.
Where I live I must have a firearms licence to be allowed to retain my air rifle that I've had since I was a kid.
(Different country, different times -> different laws.)
Starflight (released in the 80s) did something similar. The DRM key was a coloured A3 sized star map (paper poster) of the stars in the game. No colour photocopiers in those days, so photocopying didn't work so well. (I tried.)
Each time you took off, you had to consult the star map, and if you got it wrong, then as you traveled through space you'd eventually be stopped by alien spaceships that looked remarkably like police cars. If you failed their test, then they'd blast you to smithereens, as they were unbeatable.
Actually, Starflight and Starflight 2 are games that I'd really like to see modern remakes of.
You mean triffids that are easier to spot at night time?
You might be right. What search words should I use?
;)
Yes: In organised religions the aim is to maintain a membership base and fear is a good way to prevent people from leaving.
No: In non-organised religions there is no such aim. Instead the aim is to find purpose in life. One is expected and encouraged to challenge the religion by questioning everything about it.
Examples of non-organised religions (actually more like spiritual beliefs) are Buddhism, Shamanism, Gnosticism...
The guy with the tire iron might crack me over the head before making his getaway.
The guy with the gun might shoot you in the head before making his getaway ...for the same reasons.
I would rather face off against a guy with a melee weapon than a guy with a gun, because then at least I stand a chance to retaliate (successful or not), simply because it's somewhat harder to dodge/parry a bullet than a melee weapon.
Also, robberies generally rely on surprise, and no robber will allow you to pull your own weapon, so carrying any kind of weapon for self defence is pointless once the robbery is taking place.
That said, I understand what another poster wrote about him showcasing the futility in gun control (or control in general).
http://www.neurosky.com/
But perhaps another 5000+ places for gifted kids wouldn't be a bad idea. (Though it might be somewhat expensive.)
Or... it may be an instinct, that evolved to reduce inbreeding, that causes one to feel disgust at the thought of breeding with a close relative.
One can override ones instinctual behaviour, but instinctual feelings aren't based on intelligence and so are not affected by logic.
Even older adages are: "Ignorance is bliss." and "Knowledge is power."
If only we had that choice. Unfortunately we don't get actual knowledge in the news. Which, as you say, leaves only the 1st option as a viable alternative.
But maybe (tinfoil hat here) that is intentional. Less knowledge to the plebs, means less power to the plebs.
Don't americans understand english TV series without american subtitles or amercian speech?
Also, the longer we wait, the more powerful weapons they have time to accumulate. If the war had been fought fifteen years ago, then they wouldn't have been a nuclear threat. Now they are. Perhaps NK now feels that it has accumumlated enough that it might actually be ready to fight the war that it has been preparing for for so long, and it's once again testing and taunting its "enemies".
Because economics will pick what's more profitable, and that's not necessarily what's safer and cleaner.
The electric grid disperses energy, but it doesn't store it until the night time.
...that would actually meet our current demands over the course of a typical day night cycle.
What waste?
Here are a few hits from the 1st page of a Google search...
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Introduction/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle-Overview/#.UVsb1FeOCF8
http://www.nei.org/keyissues/nuclearwastedisposal/recyclingusednuclearfuel/
http://inhabitat.com/china-finds-way-to-reuse-nuclear-fuel-60-times-longer/
http://larouchepac.com/node/14720
If you're worried about accidents, then you're worried about deaths and and sickness. But fossil fuels are worse.
If you're worried about weaponisation, then you're worried about deaths. The cat's out of the bag, and not using nuclear power stations won't stop people from making bombs.
If you're worried about waste, then you need not worry.
So what are you more worried about than deaths?
Bara för det, kommer jag göra mitt allra bästa att generalisera skiten ur ert lilla "varumärke", din jävel.
That's because BSOD will be more of a standard feature in Windows Blue. ;)
Perhaps it's a shill post. Perhaps it's an honest personal opinion.
Anecdotal experience, no facts even supporting the opinion.
Let's assume for a moment that it's not a shill...
Being a personal opinion it would be, by definition, anecdotal.
Being a personal opinion it would be based on feelings, not facts.
Either way, it won't make any difference to someone who has simply decided to feel anti, come hell or high water.
What I'm saying is, being a vehement anti-shill doesn't make you more objective. It makes you just as closed minded as a paid shill. (Actually, possibly more so, because a shill may not privately agree to to the claims.)
(Personally I don't don't have an opinion about Win8 as I don't use it. But that not the point of my post.)
crazy performance artist replaces his/her skull with a transparent one. I guess they would have to wear a hat whenever they went out into the sun though.
mouse forced to RUN when a blue light is shone onto it's motor cortex
So, said artist would need to wear a hat to not run around uncontrollably. Trying to work out if wearing a transparent skull would be a bright idea. !-)
Where I live there are no gun shops at all (clearly not in the US) but we do have several supermarkets nearby.
I'm boggled by such a high density of gun shops, while clearly they're all doing good business. The closest we come to buying weapons here are martial arts shops (few real weapons though), kitchen shops (knives) and hardware shops (axes, hammers, etc.). All of them are at a density of one for every few suburbs. Not even close to the density of gun shops you describe. Truly mind boggling.
It's one thing for you to look at me, it's a whole other thing when your machine does it.
Good point (though not the point you were making). I wonder how people would react when they review footage from their eyes and realise that the original viewing was interpreted differently to later reviews.
...if only they could try to not break the extended universe. If they would maintain the extended universe then, aside from being respectful to fans and authors (who have painstakingly ensured continuity), some of those stories would make good movies.
But, alas, no. And that irritates me.