"Straightforward, to the point, a little challenging, and no farming involved. And frankly, not only it's something "earned" to be proud of, but also adds a certain flavour: it gives you a quest to do and some insight in what your class is about, instead of just a new icon sprouting on your toolbar after grinding enough boars."
Quoted for truth. I had more fun doing the warlock epic mount quest than nearly any other quest in the game precisely because it was so very warlocky. Gather a group together, clear out the guardians of a giant power node, enact a ritual while overcoming a demonic onslaught, and finally beat your mount into submission. Awesome!
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It's from memory so bear with me if I'm not 100% accurate. Seems to me the second amendment states you have a right to join the national guard. One weekend a month, two weeks a year. "
There seems to be a problem, IMO, with this interpretation. Namely, there exists no requirement, explicit or otherwise, that the right of gun ownership be tied to participation in a militia. The quoted amendment's wording about a milita is separated from the remainder of the text without a conjunction, thus rendering it void of meaning with respect to the rest of the amendment. In short, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," could just as easily read "My name being Brian," without altering the effect of the Second Amendment.
Granted, it would require an initial investment of KE but, if properly designed, then there need not be any extra sources of friction. True, placing the assembly in something like a vacuum chamber to eliminate air friction might be impractical, but I still think it might be possible.
I'm surprised that no one has offered the most obvious application of this product (if truly frictionless): perpetual motion. As I understand it, not having taken any thermodynamics courses, the only thing that stands in the way of perpetual motion is the loss of energy through frictional heat. Remove that energy loss, and something could go forever.
Given that a moving magnetic field generates an electric field, then this substance could theoretically be applied to large magnet assemblies such as those in power plants, causing them to move indefinately, thus generating vast amounts of cheap power. I wonder if this will pan out?
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"Straightforward, to the point, a little challenging, and no farming involved. And frankly, not only it's something "earned" to be proud of, but also adds a certain flavour: it gives you a quest to do and some insight in what your class is about, instead of just a new icon sprouting on your toolbar after grinding enough boars."
Quoted for truth. I had more fun doing the warlock epic mount quest than nearly any other quest in the game precisely because it was so very warlocky. Gather a group together, clear out the guardians of a giant power node, enact a ritual while overcoming a demonic onslaught, and finally beat your mount into submission. Awesome!
Unfortunately, that defeats the purpose of having PvP in the first place, unless you envision PvP to be for the purpose of ritual duels and the like.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
It's from memory so bear with me if I'm not 100% accurate. Seems to me the second amendment states you have a right to join the national guard. One weekend a month, two weeks a year. "
There seems to be a problem, IMO, with this interpretation. Namely, there exists no requirement, explicit or otherwise, that the right of gun ownership be tied to participation in a militia. The quoted amendment's wording about a milita is separated from the remainder of the text without a conjunction, thus rendering it void of meaning with respect to the rest of the amendment. In short, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," could just as easily read "My name being Brian," without altering the effect of the Second Amendment.
Granted, it would require an initial investment of KE but, if properly designed, then there need not be any extra sources of friction. True, placing the assembly in something like a vacuum chamber to eliminate air friction might be impractical, but I still think it might be possible.
I'm surprised that no one has offered the most obvious application of this product (if truly frictionless): perpetual motion. As I understand it, not having taken any thermodynamics courses, the only thing that stands in the way of perpetual motion is the loss of energy through frictional heat. Remove that energy loss, and something could go forever. Given that a moving magnetic field generates an electric field, then this substance could theoretically be applied to large magnet assemblies such as those in power plants, causing them to move indefinately, thus generating vast amounts of cheap power. I wonder if this will pan out?