I say "buy" in quotes because the concept of buying half of a building attached to someone else's half does not sound like anything I would want to buy.
No. Really... I'm not trying to troll or even make fun of, but your post above is truly funny to someone who has lived most of his life in a flat (or apartment as Americans call it). Particularly considering the housing market crisis and its influence on the global financial crisis. I mean... understanding that you can buy/own one set of rooms for your stuff but not the other...
I'm also a bit stumped with such a logical barrier. Perfectly understanding owning a building and living in it, renting a part of a building and living in it - but not owning a part of a building and living in it? I'm trying to come up with a way to compare such housing to some other set of living quarters such as a hotel, dorm, retirement home or even a prison but I fear I will only bump into "something you rent" logic barrier.
Later explanation to the midichlorians is crappy quick quasi-science. Midichlorians themselves are just a plot device Lucas pulled out of his unimaginative ass. Lets face it already - the guy is a hack who got lucky with 3 things: Star Wars, being friends with an actual "genius director-producer" like Spielberg and stumbling onto Harrison Ford.
Naming used for the technology is a good hint that someone during the writing process actually said "Hey, hold on for a second. How exactly would this thing work?". That is why Star Wars ships have "reactors" which is about as descriptive as "engine", and Star Trek ships has a "warp core", which... ok... let me quote this:
On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (M/ARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix which produces a maximum output of 4,000 teradynes per second. (VOY: "Drone") Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals.
Also... "Blasters" and "phasers" - can you guess just from their names which one has multiple modes of firing and which one just shoots?
If a thousand "hackers" (and if you can set a digital clock - you are a hacker) "torrent" a single episode of Simpsons each - they would be stealing so much money to effectively ruin FOX Broadcasting Company financially, thereby destroying the only reliable news source in America (possibly the only one in the world) and disrupting the communication across the entire planet.
so you don't like Abrams and it sounds like you went in wanting it to suck
For a Trekkie, ANY Star Trek is better than no Star Trek. Still... Any Trekkie knows that there are Final Frontiers and Nemesis' out there.
If a writer has a scene in mind, they will invent the science that makes that scene possible no matter how far fetched.
That is Star WARS, not Star TREK. Midichlorians and that shit. Trek HAS rules. Some even resemble actual science.
I'm curious where you got YOUR familiarity with the command structure of a STARSHIP. Starfleet was always a quasi-military organization from the beginning, so a strict adherence to military custom and chain of command should not be expected.
Try this new thing - it's called "The Internets". I hear that there is a shitload of information compiled by the fans and creators alike.
"Only hardcore fans will even notice those changes, so it's like a secret little 'Up yours' to the fans. The fans that he claims he doesn't need. The same fans that kept Star Trek going for the last 40 years." taking this a little personally here. The sad truth is that a reboot is required after 40 years because the original cast and those who came after have so mangled the entire concept. The other sad truth is if Star Trek had never come back after the cancellation of TOS (no movies, no spinoffs) and Abrams had wanted to make a big movie loosely based on some cool old TV show, the movie would be just as big a hit without the hardcore fans...
OK. This one is pure bullshit.
Reboots are a tool for lazy writers who can't be bothered with doing some actual writing and/or imagining. So, instead of doing something new and creative they take something old and just slap a coat of brand new actors and special effects on it.
As for Star Trek never coming back and JJ remaking something else that no one watched or liked (no fans) but it was still cool - that is a nice big claim with big manly pair of balls on it. I'd like to see you prove his magical powers - but that is kinda like claiming that an elephant could kill a man by cumming into his mouth. Kinda not really provable, isn't it now?
Preferably of the colder variety, but those warmer ones work just as well too.
Wernher von Braun was building rockets for Hitler long before the USA-USSR space race. Both sides went to space with the help on the back of his research - which was originally done in order to bomb London.
Hell... We might still be shaving ourselves with straight razors had not Gillette made that contract to supply US Army with safety razors during the WWI. And we might still be using soap and a shaving brush to lather - had not the aerosol can been invented for army use during the WWII.
I can't believe this, do you take wrappers off chocolate bars before you eat them ?
Hmmm... Interesting leap of logic. From penises and condoms to eating chocolate bars. I wonder what uncle Freud might say to that?
Having a barrier between your sense organs and the thing you are trying to experience is sub-optimal.
Really?
So you are one of those individuals that strip off their skin all the way to their nerve endings so that they can "feel more". I presume you also stick your nose into your food to taste it better (you do most tasting with your nose, look it up). And how is that Braille terminal working out for you after all that staring at the Sun you do?
Please, inform us. Inquiring minds would like to know.
The "less pleasurable" - that part is in your head. The big one. That is also (besides the "they are too tight for me") the most used line I heard from my friends and acquaintances over the years. Most of them were either those guys who couldn't hold on to a relationship longer than a month if their life depended on it, or utter and complete jerks. And it's always those two - tightness and pleasure. Intriguingly, none ever said that they were embarrassed buying them, but then again they had a reason I guess. Can't be embarrassed for buying something you don't buy or use. XD
As the happily married guy above attests, condoms are messy, inconvenient, less pleasurable, and embarrassing to purchase.
As a happily single, sexually educated and "attested" in the '90s guy (as in AIDS was already a "household name"), with a healthy level of paranoia (if it has a mouth, it probably lies) and rudimentary knowledge of statistics - I find the messy and inconvenient part to be far less then what I expect a single case of clap or AIDS might be. I can't be sure though. Don't know. Cause I use a condom.
As for the "embarrassing" - what are we? 14?
And the "less pleasurable" - that part is in your head. The big one. That is also (besides the "they are too tight for me") the most used line I heard from my friends and acquaintances over the years. Most of them were either those guys who couldn't hold on to a relationship longer than a month if their life depended on it, or utter and complete jerks. And it's always those two - tightness and pleasure. Intriguingly, none ever said that they were embarrassed buying them, but then again they had a reason I guess. Can't be embarrassed for buying something you don't buy or use. XD
The article describes a potential contraceptive that provides all the benefit of a vasectomy without any of the downsides of a vasectomy
The article comes from a study done in the country that has a law about how many kids you can have. Somehow... I don't know... I'm a bit paranoid... but I have this feeling that there MIGHT be some side-effect to those HORMONE SHOTS that they are not mentioning to us. I don't know... it's just me and my paranoia.
Take a deep breath before the mods dig you a deeper hole.
Mods-Schmods. I ain't flamin, I ain't trollin (IMHO) - if they don't like my posts they are probably trolls themselves projecting their own insecurities onto my words. So, while IANAST (I Am Not A Sexual Therapist) my advice to them would be to go fuck themselves. It might ease their accumulated tension.
So, instead of wearing a condom (which also protects wearer from STDs) guys will start taking monthly medical appointments so he can be pricked with a needle?
The building's dark interior was littered with beer cans and broken bottles. Flashlights revealed no trace of the original equipment, except for a surprise on the second floor. There in the darkness loomed four enormous tanks, each the size of a small car. Their sides were made of thick metal and their seams heavily riveted, like those of an old destroyer or battleship. The Agfa consultant leading the tour called them giant batteries.
"Look up there," said the consultant, Ralph Passantino, signaling with his flashlight. "There's a hatch up there. It was used to get into the tanks to service them."
Tesla authorities appear to know little of the big tanks, making them potential clues to the inventor's original plans.
Boy are they going to be surprised when they open them and find hundreds of hats, dead cats and human corpses with huge bone claws on their hands crammed in there.
It's not realistic, just like a video game it focuses on only the interesting parts of warfare. If you watch a cop show you'd think the average police officer is chasing a serial killer or shooting drug runners daily.
And by that FMJ concentrates on a non-interesting part of warfare?
As for cop shows... NYPD Blue is far more realistic than CSI:NY. And in that same vein - FMJ is more realistic than Apocalypse Now and FAR more realistic than The Green Berets.
Just as Saving Private Ryan or Letters from Iwo Jima is more realistic than Battle of the Bulge, Dirty Dozen and again FAR more realistic than Pearl Harbor.
Chances of soldiers dying in Iraq are about 2.5 those of being in the US (age 18-39), and there are much more dangerous neighborhoods in the US than Baghdad
You can move out of the neighborhood. Doing the same in the army constitutes being Absent Without (Official) Leave.
It is very similar to drug related turf battles seen elsewhere in the world - infact there are far riskier cities to live that aren't considered "war zones"
Correction. PARTS of the cities. And Iraq is a COUNTRY. At war. It is not just Baghdad or just parts of it. I am willing to bet that you have far better chances of being shot anywhere in Iraq than standing on a sidewalk in Bel Air eating an ice cream. Or at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Or walking down the street in Moscow.
Okay. Films like FMJ, that (rightfully or not) demonize military culture, are okay. But a video game depicting a limited facet of the military experience is horrible evil propaganda?
FMJ does not "demonize" - it is simply realistic. It doesn't glorify either, though... "A" video game may or may not be propaganda but "THE" game (America's Army) sure is. But is it "evil" and "demonizing"? Well...
I guess it is exactly the case as with you and FMJ. Depending on which side of the fence you are - both are either "depicting a limited facet of the military experience" or "being evil propaganda tools".
Personally, I find that game to be simply boring. Its work vs fun ratio is really bad, plus you only get to play one side, and there are no tanks, transporters or aircraft. I'd rather play Battle Field 2 any day.
Yes he is. His "brand recognition" has nothing to do with talent or skill. Just pure luck. Do you remember the time when Arnold, Van Damme, Seagal, Stalone and Lundgren were all grade A+ action stars. If it was skill and talent then Dolph Lundgren should have been the surviving mega-star. The guy has a genius level IQ, speaks 7 languages, has a master's degree in chemical engineering, a 3rd Dan black belt in karate and he was (some might say he still is) better looking. Plus he can break 5 blocks of ice with his bare hands.
When Michael Jackson was playing basketball, people would pay $50 or more to watch Michael Jackson play basketball. They weren't paying to watch just any group of skilled people play basketball. They would buy shoes because Michael Jackson wore those shoes. As a result Michael Jackson could charge serious money for playing basketball and for his presence in ads.
Are we talking about this Michael Jackson or should that Michael be Jordan?
Still... In sport as in action movies - stars and could-have-beens are determined by luck. Talent and skill are good - luck is better. Cause while you can learn the skill and hone the talent - nobody fixed their luck yet. There are thousands of talented and skilled but luckless people serving burgers.
It's Palin who has more and a more varied political experience. (Up until the presidency.)
She served 2 terms on the Wasilla city council before running for mayor. Then she served 2 terms as the mayor. Ran for the nomination for lieutenant governor, lost. 4 years later ran for the governor and won. Lost together with McCain to Obama-Biden.
Reagan's career went like this. Actor - 2 terms as governor - lost presidential nomination to the guy who inherited presidency from Nixon - president.
If you are looking for someone with more political experience in various levels of government - then Palin is your girl. She may even yet get to be the president or vice-president. If you are looking for a cuckoo who might tip the world into a WWIII - then you are about 50-50 with both.
Read up a bit on Reagan. The guy was gone mentally far before they diagnosed him with Alzheimer's. Anyone who can joke about killing off the poor while in the office doesn't even have common sense, let alone political acumen. And lets not even go into how he thought that he could actually win a nuclear war.
On a side note... Based on all those insults and harsh language you used I have a feeling that I mean far more to you then you will ever mean to me. I hope that thought will keep you warm tonight. Ta-tah...
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I say "buy" in quotes because the concept of buying half of a building attached to someone else's half does not sound like anything I would want to buy.
No. Really...
I'm not trying to troll or even make fun of, but your post above is truly funny to someone who has lived most of his life in a flat (or apartment as Americans call it).
Particularly considering the housing market crisis and its influence on the global financial crisis.
I mean... understanding that you can buy/own one set of rooms for your stuff but not the other...
I'm also a bit stumped with such a logical barrier.
Perfectly understanding owning a building and living in it, renting a part of a building and living in it - but not owning a part of a building and living in it?
I'm trying to come up with a way to compare such housing to some other set of living quarters such as a hotel, dorm, retirement home or even a prison but I fear I will only bump into "something you rent" logic barrier.
Not Braxton. Also, not captain at all.
As for the red matter ball and zombie city...
And who was it that invented all that?
Later explanation to the midichlorians is crappy quick quasi-science. Midichlorians themselves are just a plot device Lucas pulled out of his unimaginative ass.
Lets face it already - the guy is a hack who got lucky with 3 things: Star Wars, being friends with an actual "genius director-producer" like Spielberg and stumbling onto Harrison Ford.
Naming used for the technology is a good hint that someone during the writing process actually said "Hey, hold on for a second. How exactly would this thing work?".
That is why Star Wars ships have "reactors" which is about as descriptive as "engine", and Star Trek ships has a "warp core", which... ok... let me quote this:
On Federation starships, the warp core usually consists of a matter/antimatter reaction assembly (M/ARA) utilizing deuterium and antideuterium reacting in a crystal matrix which produces a maximum output of 4,000 teradynes per second. (VOY: "Drone") Lithium crystals were used until sometime between 2265 and 2266 when they were replaced with dilithium crystals.
Also... "Blasters" and "phasers" - can you guess just from their names which one has multiple modes of firing and which one just shoots?
If a thousand "hackers" (and if you can set a digital clock - you are a hacker) "torrent" a single episode of Simpsons each - they would be stealing so much money to effectively ruin FOX Broadcasting Company financially, thereby destroying the only reliable news source in America (possibly the only one in the world) and disrupting the communication across the entire planet.
so you don't like Abrams and it sounds like you went in wanting it to suck
For a Trekkie, ANY Star Trek is better than no Star Trek.
Still... Any Trekkie knows that there are Final Frontiers and Nemesis' out there.
If a writer has a scene in mind, they will invent the science that makes that scene possible no matter how far fetched.
That is Star WARS, not Star TREK. Midichlorians and that shit. Trek HAS rules. Some even resemble actual science.
I'm curious where you got YOUR familiarity with the command structure of a STARSHIP. Starfleet was always a quasi-military organization from the beginning, so a strict adherence to military custom and chain of command should not be expected.
Try this new thing - it's called "The Internets".
I hear that there is a shitload of information compiled by the fans and creators alike.
"Only hardcore fans will even notice those changes, so it's like a secret little 'Up yours' to the fans. The fans that he claims he doesn't need. The same fans that kept Star Trek going for the last 40 years."
taking this a little personally here. The sad truth is that a reboot is required after 40 years because the original cast and those who came after have so mangled the entire concept. The other sad truth is if Star Trek had never come back after the cancellation of TOS (no movies, no spinoffs) and Abrams had wanted to make a big movie loosely based on some cool old TV show, the movie would be just as big a hit without the hardcore fans...
OK. This one is pure bullshit.
Reboots are a tool for lazy writers who can't be bothered with doing some actual writing and/or imagining.
So, instead of doing something new and creative they take something old and just slap a coat of brand new actors and special effects on it.
As for Star Trek never coming back and JJ remaking something else that no one watched or liked (no fans) but it was still cool - that is a nice big claim with big manly pair of balls on it.
I'd like to see you prove his magical powers - but that is kinda like claiming that an elephant could kill a man by cumming into his mouth.
Kinda not really provable, isn't it now?
Preferably of the colder variety, but those warmer ones work just as well too.
Wernher von Braun was building rockets for Hitler long before the USA-USSR space race.
Both sides went to space with the help on the back of his research - which was originally done in order to bomb London.
Hell... We might still be shaving ourselves with straight razors had not Gillette made that contract to supply US Army with safety razors during the WWI.
And we might still be using soap and a shaving brush to lather - had not the aerosol can been invented for army use during the WWII.
Tony Stark could probably build it in a cave. With a box of scraps!
He probably has a dilithium crystal or two and some antimatter lying around.
He was the man who fell to Earth.
I think he was actually trying to make a joke... just like I was.
Only his joke was cruder and easily confused with racism.
I can't believe this, do you take wrappers off chocolate bars before you eat them ?
Hmmm... Interesting leap of logic. From penises and condoms to eating chocolate bars.
I wonder what uncle Freud might say to that?
Having a barrier between your sense organs and the thing you are trying to experience is sub-optimal.
Really?
So you are one of those individuals that strip off their skin all the way to their nerve endings so that they can "feel more".
I presume you also stick your nose into your food to taste it better (you do most tasting with your nose, look it up).
And how is that Braille terminal working out for you after all that staring at the Sun you do?
Please, inform us. Inquiring minds would like to know.
I'll just copy/paste this, cause I'm kinda lazy.
The "less pleasurable" - that part is in your head. The big one.
That is also (besides the "they are too tight for me") the most used line I heard from my friends and acquaintances over the years.
Most of them were either those guys who couldn't hold on to a relationship longer than a month if their life depended on it, or utter and complete jerks.
And it's always those two - tightness and pleasure.
Intriguingly, none ever said that they were embarrassed buying them, but then again they had a reason I guess.
Can't be embarrassed for buying something you don't buy or use. XD
As the happily married guy above attests, condoms are messy, inconvenient, less pleasurable, and embarrassing to purchase.
As a happily single, sexually educated and "attested" in the '90s guy (as in AIDS was already a "household name"), with a healthy level of paranoia (if it has a mouth, it probably lies) and rudimentary knowledge of statistics - I find the messy and inconvenient part to be far less then what I expect a single case of clap or AIDS might be.
I can't be sure though. Don't know. Cause I use a condom.
As for the "embarrassing" - what are we? 14?
And the "less pleasurable" - that part is in your head. The big one.
That is also (besides the "they are too tight for me") the most used line I heard from my friends and acquaintances over the years.
Most of them were either those guys who couldn't hold on to a relationship longer than a month if their life depended on it, or utter and complete jerks.
And it's always those two - tightness and pleasure.
Intriguingly, none ever said that they were embarrassed buying them, but then again they had a reason I guess. Can't be embarrassed for buying something you don't buy or use. XD
The article describes a potential contraceptive that provides all the benefit of a vasectomy without any of the downsides of a vasectomy
The article comes from a study done in the country that has a law about how many kids you can have.
Somehow... I don't know... I'm a bit paranoid... but I have this feeling that there MIGHT be some side-effect to those HORMONE SHOTS that they are not mentioning to us.
I don't know... it's just me and my paranoia.
Take a deep breath before the mods dig you a deeper hole.
Mods-Schmods.
I ain't flamin, I ain't trollin (IMHO) - if they don't like my posts they are probably trolls themselves projecting their own insecurities onto my words.
So, while IANAST (I Am Not A Sexual Therapist) my advice to them would be to go fuck themselves.
It might ease their accumulated tension.
And I guess, you Mr. Anonymous, will pay the child support.
Contraceptive-Ninja might use Shuriken-condoms - Shrondoms or Condrikens.
There is a weird Japanese commercial in here somewhere... Maybe something with Jackie Chan.
Somehow, I have a feeling that accidental pregnancy is not one of your main concerns.
Spoken like someone who has never worn a condom.
Oh... So you are one of those guys who goes around claiming that he doesn't wear condoms because they are all way too tight?
Hint... While you can't change your dick factor you CAN change the size and/or brand factor.
Less Chinese being born, less tech jobs can be outsourced to China.
It's not the medical relevance - it's economy.
So, instead of wearing a condom (which also protects wearer from STDs) guys will start taking monthly medical appointments so he can be pricked with a needle?
Riiiight... I can so see that happening.
The building's dark interior was littered with beer cans and broken bottles. Flashlights revealed no trace of the original equipment, except for a surprise on the second floor. There in the darkness loomed four enormous tanks, each the size of a small car. Their sides were made of thick metal and their seams heavily riveted, like those of an old destroyer or battleship. The Agfa consultant leading the tour called them giant batteries.
"Look up there," said the consultant, Ralph Passantino, signaling with his flashlight. "There's a hatch up there. It was used to get into the tanks to service them."
Tesla authorities appear to know little of the big tanks, making them potential clues to the inventor's original plans.
Boy are they going to be surprised when they open them and find hundreds of hats, dead cats and human corpses with huge bone claws on their hands crammed in there.
It's not realistic, just like a video game it focuses on only the interesting parts of warfare.
If you watch a cop show you'd think the average police officer is chasing a serial killer or shooting drug runners daily.
And by that FMJ concentrates on a non-interesting part of warfare?
As for cop shows... NYPD Blue is far more realistic than CSI:NY.
And in that same vein - FMJ is more realistic than Apocalypse Now and FAR more realistic than The Green Berets.
Just as Saving Private Ryan or Letters from Iwo Jima is more realistic than Battle of the Bulge, Dirty Dozen and again FAR more realistic than Pearl Harbor.
Chances of soldiers dying in Iraq are about 2.5 those of being in the US (age 18-39), and there are much more dangerous neighborhoods in the US than Baghdad
You can move out of the neighborhood.
Doing the same in the army constitutes being Absent Without (Official) Leave.
It is very similar to drug related turf battles seen elsewhere in the world - infact there are far riskier cities to live that aren't considered "war zones"
Correction. PARTS of the cities. And Iraq is a COUNTRY. At war. It is not just Baghdad or just parts of it.
I am willing to bet that you have far better chances of being shot anywhere in Iraq than standing on a sidewalk in Bel Air eating an ice cream.
Or at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Or walking down the street in Moscow.
Okay. Films like FMJ, that (rightfully or not) demonize military culture, are okay. But a video game depicting a limited facet of the military experience is horrible evil propaganda?
FMJ does not "demonize" - it is simply realistic. It doesn't glorify either, though...
"A" video game may or may not be propaganda but "THE" game (America's Army) sure is. But is it "evil" and "demonizing"? Well...
I guess it is exactly the case as with you and FMJ.
Depending on which side of the fence you are - both are either "depicting a limited facet of the military experience" or "being evil propaganda tools".
Personally, I find that game to be simply boring.
Its work vs fun ratio is really bad, plus you only get to play one side, and there are no tanks, transporters or aircraft.
I'd rather play Battle Field 2 any day.
I don't have to pay them to know that they are overpaid.
Same as I don't have to go and dig ditches to know that it is a physically strenuous but mentally unengaging work.
Yes he is.
His "brand recognition" has nothing to do with talent or skill. Just pure luck.
Do you remember the time when Arnold, Van Damme, Seagal, Stalone and Lundgren were all grade A+ action stars.
If it was skill and talent then Dolph Lundgren should have been the surviving mega-star.
The guy has a genius level IQ, speaks 7 languages, has a master's degree in chemical engineering, a 3rd Dan black belt in karate and he was (some might say he still is) better looking.
Plus he can break 5 blocks of ice with his bare hands.
When Michael Jackson was playing basketball, people would pay $50 or more to watch Michael Jackson play basketball. They weren't paying to watch just any group of skilled people play basketball. They would buy shoes because Michael Jackson wore those shoes. As a result Michael Jackson could charge serious money for playing basketball and for his presence in ads.
Are we talking about this Michael Jackson or should that Michael be Jordan?
Still... In sport as in action movies - stars and could-have-beens are determined by luck.
Talent and skill are good - luck is better.
Cause while you can learn the skill and hone the talent - nobody fixed their luck yet.
There are thousands of talented and skilled but luckless people serving burgers.
And luck is not a basis for higher pay.
It's Palin who has more and a more varied political experience. (Up until the presidency.)
She served 2 terms on the Wasilla city council before running for mayor.
Then she served 2 terms as the mayor.
Ran for the nomination for lieutenant governor, lost. 4 years later ran for the governor and won. Lost together with McCain to Obama-Biden.
Reagan's career went like this.
Actor - 2 terms as governor - lost presidential nomination to the guy who inherited presidency from Nixon - president.
If you are looking for someone with more political experience in various levels of government - then Palin is your girl. She may even yet get to be the president or vice-president.
If you are looking for a cuckoo who might tip the world into a WWIII - then you are about 50-50 with both.
Read up a bit on Reagan. The guy was gone mentally far before they diagnosed him with Alzheimer's.
Anyone who can joke about killing off the poor while in the office doesn't even have common sense, let alone political acumen.
And lets not even go into how he thought that he could actually win a nuclear war.
On a side note...
Based on all those insults and harsh language you used I have a feeling that I mean far more to you then you will ever mean to me.
I hope that thought will keep you warm tonight.
Ta-tah...