If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system.
Psssh. It looks childish because it is "Atomic Purple" I voided the warranties on all my game systems by taking them apart and giving them a decent wood-grainy paint job to match the rest of the furnature. But either way, the GC stood out from the other ones that were black. So it was being rebelious and hence more teenagery than the conformist adulty platforms. That and it would occasionally cut class and go smoke behind the gym too.
It's a lot more innovative than your average lame ass 3D shooter game. That kind of lack of innovation is why I barely play anymore. So much effort is spent on the look of the games today that little is actually put into thinking of ways to make the games fun or interesting.
Doom 3 is such a great example of this. They spent so much time making it all sorts of pretty [and left the game almost exactly the same gamewise], then they turned off all the lights. So we have a game that looks pretty (in the small area illuminated by your flashlight) unless you're trying to shoot something without using the duct tape mod.
And lets be serious, last time you were on mars being attacked by demons from hell, did you realy use both hands to hold your pistol or shotgun leaving yourself completely in the dark? I didn't think so
Where public safety is contracted out to the lowest bidder.
Perhaps when coastal population centers occur blow sea level, safety measures should be over-engineered?
I'd hope that Underwatertown, Florida with an average hight of 20 feet below sea-level and a population over 500,000 located on the beach with a large tourism industry, would look at the worst case scenario and then be prepared for something twice as bad
I'd want levees that could handle 50 feet of storm surge and 220 knot sustained winds without breaking a sweat. I'd want independantly powered (or at least secure underground lines) forced drainage. I'd want a magical pony that would drink all the water in the case that one of the levees broke. I'd also not put a prison in a place where the inmates would be evacuated and held on an on-ramp
I seem to recall a few years ago watching a program that mentioned how the brittish government decomissioned some of it's hard drives. With a low level format, then a blast furnace, and then holding on to the smelted chunk of crud for a while. [this may have been only for stuff that was "sensative" though] Of course my brain sucks for holding normal info, but it kinda stood out because we do similar stuff at work, machine dies, we take it out back with a sledge hammer and a cutting torch, someone asks us to strip the machine for parts half an hour after we're tired.
Our general manager has both horrible grammar and spelling. There are two of us at work who make it a point to correct every new sign and notice he puts up. He tends toward dropping words and using them incorrectly, but there is also the matter of horrible run on sentences that look like paragraphs, incorrect/incomplete punctuation (nothing quite like forgetting to close a parenthetical), misuse of phrases, incorrcet capitolization and the ever dreaded capslock. There's nothing like an important full page notice in 24 point all caps serif font to make you want to bust out the red (or green) pen to correct him.
I've been in the office while he writes these notices before and even though he uses MS word and his screen is covered in spelling/grammar squiggles he ignores them. I wish there was a word plug-in that could disable printing if there are error squiggles.
Note: Yes, I realize there may be grammar and spelling errors in this post, but it's not a notice to employees and this isn't a business. There also isn't something pointing out these errors, unless you count the grammar nazis that will show up later
Let's just replace all the congress critters with engineers. That'd be fun for all of 10 minutes, they'd fix all the legal problems, dismantle some evil trade organizations, get bored, and begin flaming each other over some petty difference.
All said, they'd actually get something accompished before the flaming unlike the guys we have.
And then they would do it anyway, and who would stop them? Authorities in developing countries have much more pressing issues than dealing with software piracy.
Well there is that one realy annoying aspect of Windows XP, activation. They can just track the S/N on that copy to make sure it's only registered where it's supposed to be.
Course since they've already manged to pirate it, they can fake the activation anyway
what would smaller government people do for us though? I mean, I can't see the point of replacing the current ones with midgets. what if the wrong midget won?
Curses, you're on to my nefarious plot to set up a puppet government consisting of... well... puppets, now I have to call Henson's Crature shop and stop my order of 9 dozen fraggles, 16 frogs and a Pilot. What do you propose I do with my loyal army of trained midget assassin puppeteers now?
Does anyone remember the movie Screamers? I think the robotic weapons in that were called SWORD or perhaps SWORDS... Then again a subterrainian chainsaw that moves at better than running speed, can jump high enough to take your head off and targets anything with a heartbeat is so much cooler than anything the military would use. Bunch of tree-hugging pansies.
Now....Look at a large jet, with lots of people.. Do you want blinded piltos who get blinded, or experiance vertigo.. and end up wtih a large jet crashing into a school? a neighborhood..exploding..Killing hundreds in the plane..hundreds on the ground..
Before putting out FBI alerts about someone using a laser pointer? That depends, is it a public school? It would sure convince me someone isn't blowing smoke out of wherever it is people blow smoke out of. The last thing I want is a pilot who can't tell which way his plane is pointed without having to consult instruments. Also why would you ever not know which position your gear are in, isn't it something at least as substantial as a toggle switch? What exactly is the co-pilot doing all this time anyway?
While I agree that not needing a court order is on shaky grounds you're 100% right.
The GPS will not incriminate you. The illegal activities it allows the police to monitor will, and yes it's no different than the cops using a plane or a car to follow you, just a lot cheaper.
or is it realy? I would certainly notice i'm being followed by someone, as I prefer to take the scenic route home after work (usually after midnight) and that tends to put me on some normal deserted bits of road. The way I see it is that this is no different than cops tailing you if using surveilance cameras was no different than having a cop sitting in the room watching you and a bug were no different than a cop listening at the proverbial keyhole. The two methods may have the same outcome but people do act differently when they know they are being watched/followed/listened to. There's a big difference in the man-hours/criminal devoted to tailing a car and wholesale monitoring of all traffic in the neighborhood.
After a while you will start to get suspicious when your subconscious starts to yell at you about the non-descipt van that was parked at Fry's and the one that pulled into the nail salon a few shops down when you hit the McDonalds drive-thru and the one that passed you when you stopped at the bank to deposit your freshly laundered money.
What if you get pulled over and your vehicle searched because someone opens a meth lab across the street from your church? Our records show your vehicle is across the street from a known drug supplier on a regular basis.
and now i think i'm suffering from rambling after 5 days without sleep. I need a nap in my GPS tracked bed (If this bed shows signs of movement, dont come to investigate?).
a) Appear to be doing SOMETHING to KEEP US SAFE when actually doing worse than nothing;
b) criminalize civilians whenever possible; c) check just how bloody gullible the public and media is.
The genetic manipulation that they refer to in this article is the idea of taking a gene(s) from a completely different species, and putting it into whatever they are manipulating.
It's the farmers, they never had the time to take the jellyfish around to stud for all the tomatoes. Not to mention the speakers and amps large enough to play Barry White at a volume that causes this to work have only recently been invented
They are not creating a derivative work, no matter how much you want to believe it. If I buy a fancy editing DVD player, and I buy a DVD to play in this DVD player, then I am creating a derivative work when I put the DVD in the DVD player- not Clearplay. And that is fully within my rights as long as I don't then copy and distribute that edited DVD.
But you aren't creating anything by putting the dvd in the player, all you're doing is adding the piece that is going to be modified. All the modification is being done, for profit, by RCA/Clearplay thru the machine. Especially since the edits would only fit as intended with one specific movie.(yes the edits might work on another movie but odds are they won't eliminate all/only the offensive content in the unintendedly edited movie).
It just makes you feel guilty about your pr0n habit when you read about people that choose to avoid content like that.
No, I think it is you who feel guilty about my enjoying well drawn girls in sailor outfits in various stages of being attacked by some very friendly vines/tentacles. I see nothing about that that I'd be bad about (there's a shortcut on my desktop to that folder.) That may be more of an artist envy thing, since I've never been able to draw the human body well though.
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Psssh.
It looks childish because it is "Atomic Purple"
I voided the warranties on all my game systems by taking them apart and giving them a decent wood-grainy paint job to match the rest of the furnature.
But either way, the GC stood out from the other ones that were black. So it was being rebelious and hence more teenagery than the conformist adulty platforms.
That and it would occasionally cut class and go smoke behind the gym too.
Doom 3 is such a great example of this. They spent so much time making it all sorts of pretty [and left the game almost exactly the same gamewise], then they turned off all the lights. So we have a game that looks pretty (in the small area illuminated by your flashlight) unless you're trying to shoot something without using the duct tape mod.
And lets be serious, last time you were on mars being attacked by demons from hell, did you realy use both hands to hold your pistol or shotgun leaving yourself completely in the dark? I didn't think so
Where public safety is contracted out to the lowest bidder.
Perhaps when coastal population centers occur blow sea level, safety measures should be over-engineered?
I'd hope that Underwatertown, Florida with an average hight of 20 feet below sea-level and a population over 500,000 located on the beach with a large tourism industry, would look at the worst case scenario and then be
prepared for something twice as bad
I'd want levees that could handle 50 feet of storm surge and 220 knot sustained winds without breaking a sweat.
I'd want independantly powered (or at least secure underground lines) forced drainage.
I'd want a magical pony that would drink all the water in the case that one of the levees broke.
I'd also not put a prison in a place where the inmates would be evacuated and held on an on-ramp
Cool, you live on the equator, 1000 miles west of the Galapagos islands too?
Can I borrow a cup of sugar?
Do you know what this means for science?
It means actual advances in the field of science.
Heh, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra...
I don't think France is a shade of blue
up until the network gets bogged down with porn and Halo and CS
I seem to recall a few years ago watching a program that mentioned how the brittish government decomissioned some of it's hard drives.
With a low level format, then a blast furnace, and then holding on to the smelted chunk of crud for a while. [this may have been only for stuff that was "sensative" though]
Of course my brain sucks for holding normal info, but it kinda stood out because we do similar stuff at work, machine dies, we take it out back with a sledge hammer and a cutting torch, someone asks us to strip the machine for parts half an hour after we're tired.
Our general manager has both horrible grammar and spelling. There are two of us at work who make it a point to correct every new sign and notice he puts up. He tends toward dropping words and using them incorrectly, but there is also the matter of horrible run on sentences that look like paragraphs, incorrect/incomplete punctuation (nothing quite like forgetting to close a parenthetical), misuse of phrases, incorrcet capitolization and the ever dreaded capslock.
There's nothing like an important full page notice in 24 point all caps serif font to make you want to bust out the red (or green) pen to correct him.
I've been in the office while he writes these notices before and even though he uses MS word and his screen is covered in spelling/grammar squiggles he ignores them. I wish there was a word plug-in that could disable printing if there are error squiggles.
Note: Yes, I realize there may be grammar and spelling errors in this post, but it's not a notice to employees and this isn't a business. There also isn't something pointing out these errors, unless you count the grammar nazis that will show up later
Let's just replace all the congress critters with engineers. That'd be fun for all of 10 minutes, they'd fix all the legal problems, dismantle some evil trade organizations, get bored, and begin flaming each other over some petty difference.
All said, they'd actually get something accompished before the flaming unlike the guys we have.
Well there is that one realy annoying aspect of Windows XP, activation. They can just track the S/N on that copy to make sure it's only registered where it's supposed to be.
Course since they've already manged to pirate it, they can fake the activation anyway
But When are they gonna get Linux running on a PSP?
I wanna turn mine on to some happy penguin action.
Portable tux racer?
Well, my grandfather did blow a wall out of the garage once... but I don't think that qualifies as a house
Curses, you're on to my nefarious plot to set up a puppet government consisting of... well... puppets, now I have to call Henson's Crature shop and stop my order of 9 dozen fraggles, 16 frogs and a Pilot. What do you propose I do with my loyal army of trained midget assassin puppeteers now?
Argh, MacGuyver....
Lady: Now you're gonna tell me you can make a bomb out of a stick of gum or something.
Mac: Why? Have you got one?
There's a reason I could never get through a whole episode, even when I was young.
Does anyone remember the movie Screamers?
I think the robotic weapons in that were called SWORD or perhaps SWORDS...
Then again a subterrainian chainsaw that moves at better than running speed, can jump high enough to take your head off and targets anything with a heartbeat is so much cooler than anything the military would use. Bunch of tree-hugging pansies.
Before putting out FBI alerts about someone using a laser pointer?
That depends, is it a public school?
It would sure convince me someone isn't blowing smoke out of wherever it is people blow smoke out of.
The last thing I want is a pilot who can't tell which way his plane is pointed without having to consult instruments. Also why would you ever not know which position your gear are in, isn't it something at least as substantial as a toggle switch? What exactly is the co-pilot doing all this time anyway?
IANAAP
I Am Not An Airline Pilot
or is it realy? I would certainly notice i'm being followed by someone, as I prefer to take the scenic route home after work (usually after midnight) and that tends to put me on some normal deserted bits of road.
The way I see it is that this is no different than cops tailing you if using surveilance cameras was no different than having a cop sitting in the room watching you and a bug were no different than a cop listening at the proverbial keyhole.
The two methods may have the same outcome but people do act differently when they know they are being watched/followed/listened to. There's a big difference in the man-hours/criminal devoted to tailing a car and wholesale monitoring of all traffic in the neighborhood.
After a while you will start to get suspicious when your subconscious starts to yell at you about the non-descipt van that was parked at Fry's and the one that pulled into the nail salon a few shops down when you hit the McDonalds drive-thru and the one that passed you when you stopped at the bank to deposit your freshly laundered money.
What if you get pulled over and your vehicle searched because someone opens a meth lab across the street from your church? Our records show your vehicle is across the street from a known drug supplier on a regular basis.
and now i think i'm suffering from rambling after 5 days without sleep. I need a nap in my GPS tracked bed (If this bed shows signs of movement, dont come to investigate?).
4) ???
V) profit
I think Goldfinger was expecting the laser to cauterize the wound as it went. Then again i don't have my Evil Master(mind)s degree in psychology.
This product is further proof that the drugs over there are much better
Heck, they try to draw your attention to it by making him hang around with a pantless mouse, but the elephant is only wearing a (undersized) hat
Q is for Quickie, that's good enough for me...
wait...
no...
now i'm going to suffer from an image of Cookie Monster getting... ARGH!!!!
It's the farmers, they never had the time to take the jellyfish around to stud for all the tomatoes. Not to mention the speakers and amps large enough to play Barry White at a volume that causes this to work have only recently been invented
But you aren't creating anything by putting the dvd in the player, all you're doing is adding the piece that is going to be modified. All the modification is being done, for profit, by RCA/Clearplay thru the machine. Especially since the edits would only fit as intended with one specific movie.(yes the edits might work on another movie but odds are they won't eliminate all/only the offensive content in the unintendedly edited movie).
No, I think it is you who feel guilty about my enjoying well drawn girls in sailor outfits in various stages of being attacked by some very friendly vines/tentacles. I see nothing about that that I'd be bad about (there's a shortcut on my desktop to that folder.) That may be more of an artist envy thing, since I've never been able to draw the human body well though.