I guess since we do not have a World Unified Government then the question is who will own Mars and its resources once we do get there? The nation who is capable to conquer it and provide 'security' for the colonists/mining companies will be the Owner of such colonies or at least charge a massive fee for providing that security. Kind of a racketeering business in space.
The way it seems we have done all the fighting we can do here on Earth now we are getting ready for Battlefield Mars.
Since Trump rhetoric has been to bring down the status quo of the whole establishment maybe they were discussing the full pardon of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
maybe Trump is planning to give back to the people what the estabishment took from them. Their privacy.
or maybe they were discussing how Trump can setup a private server for all his classified and 'special interest' emails and was asking the russians on how best to protect against russian attacks:):) I mean there is NOTHING WRONG with having highest level classified information on a apache server witha MySQL database run on a Pentium I processor:) and a router with WEP security (because its da strongest..the russians told me so:) )
Its not like anyone has ever gone to jail for leaking highly classified information on purpose or neglecting to protect that information. Right?:):)
That is a nice smile. She must have some special privileges to be able to smile on passport photo. Unlike us mere mortals that are forever grumpy looking on our photos.
few years back RIAA did a research to prove pirates are hurting their bottom lines. The research was finalised and it proved pirates spent more money on music and videos than the non pirate counterparts.
people dont realise that piracy in fact forces people who produce music and videos to give it their BEST to produce something worth while paying money for.
people pirate games, videos and music and when they discover the game is junk they dont buy it. same for movies and music. if somone made an awesome album or a game then shortly after the free 'preview' alot of 'pirates' end up buying the game or movies for their collection.
Pirates have improved the overall quality of productions across the board because they DO SPEND money on good stuff and avoid the junk outthere.
But that research never made it the mainstream media because its easier to manufacture junk and try and sell it that try and make quality stuff.:)
Welcome to Obamanist russ.sorry...America comarades. in my country we used to call them political prisoners but i like your pronounciation better. Terrorist. the sheer unknown of what or who they terrorise alows for more freedom of abuse of human right. Love it. Shuld be more of it. Stalin would be proud of what the USA has become. lol
For a country hell bent on individual rights protected under the constitution America is doing sweet fk all to protect itself from the terrorist within its government. Even the 2nd amendment doesnt seem to be working as intended since it seems most of recent troubles and anti people agendas can be leviated by a simple revolution but no one is willing to go to gitmo for standing up and being counted:):)
lucky we have avganistan to vent our anger on them 'real' terrorists ah?
of course not. once the proceed to human trials they can hook up people across the world like a movie called GAMER. you get to play WoW, EvE online, Sims, COD black ops WITH REAL HUMANS:)
plus you can have human drones alongside mechanical ones fighting your battles.
grab a wghole bunch of nobody prisoners, link them to some teenage nerds sitting in a room somewhere in the pentagon and let them go invade a country:):)
nope. this technology is all positive for the human race. nothing bad can ever come of it. i mean look at how much power we produce from nuclear reactors. we get to light up whole cities:):) (pun definitely intended)
we all know the best thorium veins are in the insect hives in Feralas and its a PITA to get them and compete with the other miners. I dont think the risk of making bombs is high because most people just bypass this zone and go for the endgame mats that sell better.
No one is ever in the caves mining thorium so there is no need to worry:):)
Degree in CS or SE makes a good paper to wipe your bum with unless you have the experience to back it up or were lucky enough to gain a graduate placement. No one will employ you without some experience so any graduate who graduated and never worked even part time in the industry they want to work in will find it hard to compete with all the other graduates who did part time work even if that was callcentre desktop support.
The name of the degree doesnt matter as all graduates would be lucky to be part of a development team straight after uni. Most end up in shitty jobs like desktop support callcentres to 'build up experience' for 2 years or so they can have the necessary experience to be part of a roper team. Others end up maintaining code and fixing bugs. After few years they might get on the development team and by then the stuff they learned at uni is only general knowledge considering how quicky technology moves so they would likely be specialist in the stuff their company does but if they lost that job they would be once again behind the tech curve and would need to keep up.
At the end its all about what uni does what and how they approach and name things. The CS ones are ones with stronger ARTS framework and you end up doing alot of general stuff like Philosophy and Logic, alot of Electronics and hardware and heavy Statistics classes coupled with some crazy math you will rarely use as a programmer and if you had to use it likely it was already automated in someone elses library of functions or yo9u just google the formula and copy paste.:) the SE unis are the ones with more industry contacts that do specific programming courses to get you ready for the job, they will likely have an internship with said 'sponsors' and you wont have to suffer through a 2 year help desk job to build up your experience.
if all else fails CS students should not be discouraged, they can come work with me in the warehouse as a labourer and load/unload containers all day. they 'good' computer skill will come handy with clerical paperwork and they will be a clerk for the rest of their carreer:) shit pay but at least you get undisturbed access to Slashdot:):)
i think if you can prove that you are class A nerd who lives on the internet and if that was taken away from you you would not be able to attend the 7pm WoW raid and this will slump you into deep depression and you are also prone to suicidal taughts because you are going to miss out on that purple dagger you have been working to hope to drop over the last 3 months then YES IT SHOULD BE SELF DEFENCE.
every anti stealth detector ship should have an aviary full of seaguls and release them for detection. just follow the seagulls and you will find the stealth ship. if you build it with chips they will come:):)
What happened to working hard for a living? People want to DELEGATE EVRYTGHING these days. Everyons i fat and lazy these days. We optimiseeverything to levels that allows us to have ample spare time. We then KILL that spare time with endless hours of LoL, WoW, SC2, COD etc etc (insert your game poisoin here). Then we spend some more money on gym to offset the obesity gained at work and gaming.
So if we spent more time working, less time at home we would be overall happier. Less time spent arguing with the wife and yelling after the kids. Less time gaming is less time strestting out about raid strats, bis gear, who is not pulling weight and needs replaceing, screaming and slamming the keyboard against the monitor when some noob sniper APWs your ass and constantly griefs you with "no skillz".
Mistake or clever move, thin line when you consder the years after the war. It basically chalenged Stalin who was likely going to backstab Hitler anyway. I mean this dude persecuted his OWN population and you would think he was going to play nice with a german? come one.
Maybe I played way too much C&C RA over the years but its not unthinkable that Russia unchecked would have likely rolled over everybody given how no one had any proper military left after the germans had their way with them.
only in the initial phases of this. dont be fooled this wont be used to further goals. like traffic flow management. once every car is jacked with these devices you can have a computerised traffic detection system that manages traffic lights or with the new Google self driven cars a automated way to go places. Now what happens when you remove a transponder from a vehicle and the traffic system detects a gap in traffic and sugests you speed up. now pair that with a faulty front detection sensor in the car or 'deliberately' altered sensor and you have the computer trying to speed up to fill the 'gap' in traffic.
I would hate to be the thief if the gap filler was a big semi trailer fully loaded:):) coming over me to optimise traffic flow:)
Shdowrun, The Grid, AR world. hmm good times good times coming to us. Hope the Magic Awakening is also on the cards. I want to be an magical elf shaman with a big A$$ dicoted katana and gyromounted minigun:) Yea good times
Actually given how powerfull the Greens are we have 3 major players here and in the last election a vote for the Labour Party whas a vote for the Greens because of how they gave away their preferences.
The best way to describe the lot is the Liberals a more swayed towards improving businesses oportunities and giving power to businesses with the hope they wont abuse their power and employ more people and hope once again this will keep a strong economy.
Labour on other hand is all about misapropriating whatever money is left in the coffers, Labour is heavily backed by the industrial Unions which is a fancy word for "do nothing get paid and if you dont get paid enough go on strike" secret handshake clubs only milking membership fees from members and providing fk all in return.
Greens are our pure socialist, they are also called Watermelons because they are green on the outside but commie red on the inside. Most of their high ranking members were high ranking members in the old Australian Communist Party, some of these (see senator Lee Rhianon in particular) have heavy links with the old USSR, KGB and the old communist block in russia. Our ASIO has files on their 'activism' days and meetings with old KGB agents in the past. Lee Rhianons mparents were all heavy into the old Australian Communist Party, in fact i would hazard a guess towards the end days of the ACP they decided to restructure it to a more modern appeal to attract young student 'activists' as the old communist party used to do with marxists ideals and such but now they went with the 'ENVIROMENTAL" and "ORGANIC" way to get supporters. So then the Greens Party was born, the hierarchy is much the same and unlikely the people have changed tehjir views but they are a strong presence in politics and with heavy balance of power in our Senate they can make any dirty deal with their Labour puppets and get it passed. They managed to give us the Carbon Tax didnit they.
At present the Labour Party is trying to distance itself in public while on the inside is supporting the Greens because communists and unions are usualy banded together its just now is not the time to tell people they are coming out of the woodwork because they havent managed to take away all the weapons in the hands of hunters and sporting shooters. The 1996 fiasco stealback was a start but they are now working on step 2 which is ratifying and implementing the junket UN Potocol on ammunition and small arms basically ruining the shooting sport and hunting in countries which implemets them. Once they can be assured the population is defenceless they might start implementing some of their more retarded ideas to brign us all back to serfdom
I bet the americans supplied the wrong bolts. It wobnt be the first time they mistook Metric with Imperial. This is the Mars lander incident all over again.
thin air on demand could be nice for high altitude training without going to the mountains and just make these simulated high altitude training centres in local urban areas. lowering the training costs for athletes both in travel and being away from family.
Maybe the Australian Carbon Tax which is suposed to offset climate change effects be passed on to the Chinese since if this program goes full scale day to day operation they will efectively be responsible for the weather in other countries:):) I mean i read a butterfly farting in Brazil causes thunderstorms in Jakarta some sort of chaos theory effect. So TAX THE CHINESE!!!
How annoying do you find cyclist couriers in the city dodging traffic and causing accidents all while risking their lives.
Now drone courier system would be super cool will reduce cyclist traffic and wont clutter the airways with nonsensical chatter between buddy couriers talking about what they had to lunch or what that busty receptionist at the legal aid office was wearing today.
If a drone can carry a missle payload then it can easily carry a bunch of documents and moreso will have direct line express route across the city.
Drone pizza takeaway service?
pay online by credit card and the drone will paradrop a pizza to your door. no it wont land so you can steal it nor give you change. i expect cash to die out and everything to be paid by plastic in my future world:):):)
for added protection the drone can carry a missile JUST IN CASE...
if you somehow made special landing/hookup mail boxes mandatory for all household your post office can deliver the letters via drones.:)
or the tried and tested method.
1. Enslave a race.
2. Bring the strong ones to your country.
3. Breed the strongest males with the toughest females.
4. Repeat the process for 500 years.
5. Abolish slavery and create the NBA and NFL.
6. DOMINATE!!!!!
nanny, disensetised sad state of world we live in when LOOKING is not enough and we need sonar pings, violent screecher noisemakers to tell us a car is on the road. WTF?? ROAD= Car's Domain. Sidewalk = Pedestrian domain. So if I have to make sure a driveway is clear and safe to drive on why cant pedestrians OPEN their eyes when entering MY CAR'S domain.
I mean my subwoofer can give a run for the money of any industrial airhorn mounted on trucks so I don need noisemakers but maybe thats the solution.
Equip all electro-pissant hybrids with awesome amps and subs and quality sound system and you wont need noisemaker devices.
But if you die because you crossed the road in front of an electric car that you DIDINT HEAR. Well thats just natures way of culling the gene pool.:)
Never mind the 2nd shot. The force of the 1st shot will be coming to you body if you held out the clipboard to protect you in a typical fashiion pushing forward the 2 thumbs are behind the clipboard and the force of the shot is coming to you. So BULLET------->|clipboard| -------thumb...i doubt the thumbs can sustain the kinetic energy of the bullet. i think something is gonna give and it will mot likely be bone, tissue or ligament or a combination.
so the pain will likely render you more helpless than if you just dropped to kneeling while pulled your own gun and shoot back.
oh and once the clipboard is disloged from your grip it will most likely try to follow the direction of the bullet and come kiss you as well.
my cousin does bodyguard work and he reckons by dropping to your knee while pulling your gun increases your odds of survival by a huge amount especially if you manage to get your shot off while transitioning/shooting from the hip and not waiting to get sight picture. relying on a clipboard to protect you is like fortfeiting your life to the perp.
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I guess since we do not have a World Unified Government then the question is who will own Mars and its resources once we do get there?
The nation who is capable to conquer it and provide 'security' for the colonists/mining companies will be the Owner of such colonies or at least charge a massive fee for providing that security. Kind of a racketeering business in space.
The way it seems we have done all the fighting we can do here on Earth now we are getting ready for Battlefield Mars.
The mineral wealth on Mars better be worth it.
Since Trump rhetoric has been to bring down the status quo of the whole establishment maybe they were discussing the full pardon of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
maybe Trump is planning to give back to the people what the estabishment took from them. Their privacy.
or maybe they were discussing how Trump can setup a private server for all his classified and 'special interest' emails and was asking the russians on how best to protect against russian attacks :) :) I mean there is NOTHING WRONG with having highest level classified information on a apache server witha MySQL database run on a Pentium I processor :) and a router with WEP security (because its da strongest..the russians told me so :) )
Its not like anyone has ever gone to jail for leaking highly classified information on purpose or neglecting to protect that information. Right? :) :)
Dr. Mengele would be proud of what we have managed to achive.
That is a nice smile. She must have some special privileges to be able to smile on passport photo. Unlike us mere mortals that are forever grumpy looking on our photos.
few years back RIAA did a research to prove pirates are hurting their bottom lines. The research was finalised and it proved pirates spent more money on music and videos than the non pirate counterparts.
people dont realise that piracy in fact forces people who produce music and videos to give it their BEST to produce something worth while paying money for.
people pirate games, videos and music and when they discover the game is junk they dont buy it. same for movies and music.
if somone made an awesome album or a game then shortly after the free 'preview' alot of 'pirates' end up buying the game or movies for their collection.
Pirates have improved the overall quality of productions across the board because they DO SPEND money on good stuff and avoid the junk outthere.
But that research never made it the mainstream media because its easier to manufacture junk and try and sell it that try and make quality stuff. :)
Welcome to Obamanist russ.sorry...America comarades. in my country we used to call them political prisoners but i like your pronounciation better. Terrorist. the sheer unknown of what or who they terrorise alows for more freedom of abuse of human right. Love it. Shuld be more of it. Stalin would be proud of what the USA has become. lol
For a country hell bent on individual rights protected under the constitution America is doing sweet fk all to protect itself from the terrorist within its government. Even the 2nd amendment doesnt seem to be working as intended since it seems most of recent troubles and anti people agendas can be leviated by a simple revolution but no one is willing to go to gitmo for standing up and being counted :) :)
lucky we have avganistan to vent our anger on them 'real' terrorists ah?
probably they also did the vote count in Florida back when George Bush got elected :)
of course not. once the proceed to human trials they can hook up people across the world like a movie called GAMER. you get to play WoW, EvE online, Sims, COD black ops WITH REAL HUMANS :)
plus you can have human drones alongside mechanical ones fighting your battles.
grab a wghole bunch of nobody prisoners, link them to some teenage nerds sitting in a room somewhere in the pentagon and let them go invade a country :) :)
nope. this technology is all positive for the human race. nothing bad can ever come of it. i mean look at how much power we produce from nuclear reactors. we get to light up whole cities :) :) (pun definitely intended)
we all know the best thorium veins are in the insect hives in Feralas and its a PITA to get them and compete with the other miners. I dont think the risk of making bombs is high because most people just bypass this zone and go for the endgame mats that sell better.
No one is ever in the caves mining thorium so there is no need to worry :) :)
Degree in CS or SE makes a good paper to wipe your bum with unless you have the experience to back it up or were lucky enough to gain a graduate placement.
No one will employ you without some experience so any graduate who graduated and never worked even part time in the industry they want to work in will find it hard to compete with all the other graduates who did part time work even if that was callcentre desktop support.
The name of the degree doesnt matter as all graduates would be lucky to be part of a development team straight after uni. Most end up in shitty jobs like desktop support callcentres to 'build up experience' for 2 years or so they can have the necessary experience to be part of a roper team.
Others end up maintaining code and fixing bugs. After few years they might get on the development team and by then the stuff they learned at uni is only general knowledge considering how quicky technology moves so they would likely be specialist in the stuff their company does but if they lost that job they would be once again behind the tech curve and would need to keep up.
At the end its all about what uni does what and how they approach and name things. The CS ones are ones with stronger ARTS framework and you end up doing alot of general stuff like Philosophy and Logic, alot of Electronics and hardware and heavy Statistics classes coupled with some crazy math you will rarely use as a programmer and if you had to use it likely it was already automated in someone elses library of functions or yo9u just google the formula and copy paste. :)
the SE unis are the ones with more industry contacts that do specific programming courses to get you ready for the job, they will likely have an internship with said 'sponsors' and you wont have to suffer through a 2 year help desk job to build up your experience.
if all else fails CS students should not be discouraged, they can come work with me in the warehouse as a labourer and load/unload containers all day. they 'good' computer skill will come handy with clerical paperwork and they will be a clerk for the rest of their carreer :) shit pay but at least you get undisturbed access to Slashdot :) :)
i think if you can prove that you are class A nerd who lives on the internet and if that was taken away from you you would not be able to attend the 7pm WoW raid and this will slump you into deep depression and you are also prone to suicidal taughts because you are going to miss out on that purple dagger you have been working to hope to drop over the last 3 months then YES IT SHOULD BE SELF DEFENCE.
every anti stealth detector ship should have an aviary full of seaguls and release them for detection. :) :)
just follow the seagulls and you will find the stealth ship. if you build it with chips they will come
we have done enough here. now its time to fk up Mars. irst we need to terraform it so we can ruin its atmosphere all over again.
What happened to working hard for a living? People want to DELEGATE EVRYTGHING these days.
Everyons i fat and lazy these days. We optimiseeverything to levels that allows us to have ample spare time.
We then KILL that spare time with endless hours of LoL, WoW, SC2, COD etc etc (insert your game poisoin here).
Then we spend some more money on gym to offset the obesity gained at work and gaming.
So if we spent more time working, less time at home we would be overall happier. Less time spent arguing with the wife and yelling after the kids.
Less time gaming is less time strestting out about raid strats, bis gear, who is not pulling weight and needs replaceing, screaming and slamming the keyboard against the monitor when some noob sniper APWs your ass and constantly griefs you with "no skillz".
so BE HAPPY = WORK HARDER :)
Mistake or clever move, thin line when you consder the years after the war. It basically chalenged Stalin who was likely going to backstab Hitler anyway. I mean this dude persecuted his OWN population and you would think he was going to play nice with a german? come one.
Maybe I played way too much C&C RA over the years but its not unthinkable that Russia unchecked would have likely rolled over everybody given how no one had any proper military left after the germans had their way with them.
only in the initial phases of this. dont be fooled this wont be used to further goals. like traffic flow management.
once every car is jacked with these devices you can have a computerised traffic detection system that manages traffic lights or with the new Google self driven cars a automated way to go places.
Now what happens when you remove a transponder from a vehicle and the traffic system detects a gap in traffic and sugests you speed up. now pair that with a faulty front detection sensor in the car or 'deliberately' altered sensor and you have the computer trying to speed up to fill the 'gap' in traffic.
I would hate to be the thief if the gap filler was a big semi trailer fully loaded :) :) coming over me to optimise traffic flow :)
Shdowrun, The Grid, AR world. hmm good times good times coming to us. Hope the Magic Awakening is also on the cards. I want to be an magical elf shaman with a big A$$ dicoted katana and gyromounted minigun :) Yea good times
Actually given how powerfull the Greens are we have 3 major players here and in the last election a vote for the Labour Party whas a vote for the Greens because of how they gave away their preferences.
The best way to describe the lot is the Liberals a more swayed towards improving businesses oportunities and giving power to businesses with the hope they wont abuse their power and employ more people and hope once again this will keep a strong economy.
Labour on other hand is all about misapropriating whatever money is left in the coffers, Labour is heavily backed by the industrial Unions which is a fancy word for "do nothing get paid and if you dont get paid enough go on strike" secret handshake clubs only milking membership fees from members and providing fk all in return.
Greens are our pure socialist, they are also called Watermelons because they are green on the outside but commie red on the inside. Most of their high ranking members were high ranking members in the old Australian Communist Party, some of these (see senator Lee Rhianon in particular) have heavy links with the old USSR, KGB and the old communist block in russia. Our ASIO has files on their 'activism' days and meetings with old KGB agents in the past. Lee Rhianons mparents were all heavy into the old Australian Communist Party, in fact i would hazard a guess towards the end days of the ACP they decided to restructure it to a more modern appeal to attract young student 'activists' as the old communist party used to do with marxists ideals and such but now they went with the 'ENVIROMENTAL" and "ORGANIC" way to get supporters. So then the Greens Party was born, the hierarchy is much the same and unlikely the people have changed tehjir views but they are a strong presence in politics and with heavy balance of power in our Senate they can make any dirty deal with their Labour puppets and get it passed. They managed to give us the Carbon Tax didnit they.
At present the Labour Party is trying to distance itself in public while on the inside is supporting the Greens because communists and unions are usualy banded together its just now is not the time to tell people they are coming out of the woodwork because they havent managed to take away all the weapons in the hands of hunters and sporting shooters. The 1996 fiasco stealback was a start but they are now working on step 2 which is ratifying and implementing the junket UN Potocol on ammunition and small arms basically ruining the shooting sport and hunting in countries which implemets them. Once they can be assured the population is defenceless they might start implementing some of their more retarded ideas to brign us all back to serfdom
I bet the americans supplied the wrong bolts. It wobnt be the first time they mistook Metric with Imperial. This is the Mars lander incident all over again.
thin air on demand could be nice for high altitude training without going to the mountains and just make these simulated high altitude training centres in local urban areas. lowering the training costs for athletes both in travel and being away from family.
Maybe the Australian Carbon Tax which is suposed to offset climate change effects be passed on to the Chinese since if this program goes full scale day to day operation they will efectively be responsible for the weather in other countries :) :) I mean i read a butterfly farting in Brazil causes thunderstorms in Jakarta some sort of chaos theory effect. So TAX THE CHINESE!!!
How annoying do you find cyclist couriers in the city dodging traffic and causing accidents all while risking their lives. Now drone courier system would be super cool will reduce cyclist traffic and wont clutter the airways with nonsensical chatter between buddy couriers talking about what they had to lunch or what that busty receptionist at the legal aid office was wearing today. If a drone can carry a missle payload then it can easily carry a bunch of documents and moreso will have direct line express route across the city. Drone pizza takeaway service? pay online by credit card and the drone will paradrop a pizza to your door. no it wont land so you can steal it nor give you change. i expect cash to die out and everything to be paid by plastic in my future world :) :) :)
for added protection the drone can carry a missile JUST IN CASE...
if you somehow made special landing/hookup mail boxes mandatory for all household your post office can deliver the letters via drones. :)
or the tried and tested method. 1. Enslave a race. 2. Bring the strong ones to your country. 3. Breed the strongest males with the toughest females. 4. Repeat the process for 500 years. 5. Abolish slavery and create the NBA and NFL. 6. DOMINATE!!!!!
nanny, disensetised sad state of world we live in when LOOKING is not enough and we need sonar pings, violent screecher noisemakers to tell us a car is on the road. WTF?? ROAD= Car's Domain. Sidewalk = Pedestrian domain. So if I have to make sure a driveway is clear and safe to drive on why cant pedestrians OPEN their eyes when entering MY CAR'S domain. I mean my subwoofer can give a run for the money of any industrial airhorn mounted on trucks so I don need noisemakers but maybe thats the solution. Equip all electro-pissant hybrids with awesome amps and subs and quality sound system and you wont need noisemaker devices. But if you die because you crossed the road in front of an electric car that you DIDINT HEAR. Well thats just natures way of culling the gene pool. :)
Never mind the 2nd shot. The force of the 1st shot will be coming to you body if you held out the clipboard to protect you in a typical fashiion pushing forward the 2 thumbs are behind the clipboard and the force of the shot is coming to you. So BULLET------->|clipboard| -------thumb...i doubt the thumbs can sustain the kinetic energy of the bullet. i think something is gonna give and it will mot likely be bone, tissue or ligament or a combination. so the pain will likely render you more helpless than if you just dropped to kneeling while pulled your own gun and shoot back. oh and once the clipboard is disloged from your grip it will most likely try to follow the direction of the bullet and come kiss you as well. my cousin does bodyguard work and he reckons by dropping to your knee while pulling your gun increases your odds of survival by a huge amount especially if you manage to get your shot off while transitioning/shooting from the hip and not waiting to get sight picture. relying on a clipboard to protect you is like fortfeiting your life to the perp.