The only ones who would proudly proclaim that they don't participate in online gamers are the dumb.
Just a small contribution to the topic: I don't like to play online games, other than the occasional DikuMUD now and then, because my ISP isn't quite as trustworthy as I'd like. If i'm reading/. and my modem disconnects, well, I just have to dial back, maybe lose a minute or two. If i'm playing Brood Wars or Quake3 online, that lost minute can cause me to lose what was otherwise a fun and enjoyable game.
Besides, I've always liked LAN Parties more, because there's nothing like the look on your friend's face in the other side of the room as you annihilate his sorry ass with your secret squad of zerglings, or frag him to tiny bits with a rocket launcher. But then that's just me.
a 40-year-old virgin with taped-together hornrim glasses, who plays MUDs for 20+ hours a week. Hey! Who says you can't play MUDs for 20+ hours a week, and also get some? It is insulting to imply that you can't be a part of an online text-based role-playing community and also have a frecuent sex life. Hours and hours of pleasure and all.
Space exploration won't happen for real until miners, production engineers, manufacturing corporations, porn stars, hoteliers ands couriers are using space as an everyday part of their jobs.
Space Porn. Now THAT would really get people up (if you pardon my pun).
Face it guys, there's nothing on the moon. It's as barren and lifeless as it looks down here
Well, I may just be fantasizing here, but I can easily picture something in, say, 20 years or so...
A bunch of scientists find a weird combination of substances can be used to create ambient-temperature superconducting cables. The only problem is that it takes a mix of weird materials that can't be found on Earth. But guess what? You can find them (and mine them) in the Moon. So the U.S. Corporations say, "lets put a mining base in the Moon!".
Whoops, too late. The Chinese and/or Indians are already living there and they are taking all of the best mining and living spots in the Moon.
By the time the US is ready to set up operations there, the Chinese have started mining such materials and are making a killing in the markets. China becomes the first economical superpower in the Globe. The US gets relegated to second or third place. France surrendes.
We have elite teams of car thiefs that can take the threads and wheels off of a tank in less time than it takes to start the engine, and leave it standing on four cinder blocks. Even if the tank happens to be moving.
Heh. I've always wanted to see the "missing scenes" from Independence Day where a big mothership hovers over Mexico City, and goes down under millions of beggars, window-cleaners, juggler kids and fire-eaters. And gets robbed of everything that looks shiny or valuable enough, to be sold later in Tepito.
That is, if said mothership actually finds Mexico City under all that smog...
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Plus the team composed of experts from very different fields. Don't forget the team, that's classic Crichton.
I've got several of Crichton's books, and that's what always sticks in my mind. Giant dinosaurs? Killer virii from outer space? Alien extraterrestrial spheres crashing into Earth from outer space (as one friend described Sphere once)? More giant dinosaurs? Nope, it's a book about a TEAM! (And you can always bet on who is gonna survive and who is gonna die).
Of course, some books like Eaters of the dead and Disclosure dont fit into the Crichton stereotype, and that's A good thing (tm) in my opinion. Real writers don't write a gazillion books with the same idea over and over (well, some do, but probably shouldn't).
Anyway, I haven't read Prey, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. In paperback, of course.
My point is, I still want 4x8 foot panels until such time as I buy a house which is designed to a metric standard.
That's the thing with changing any such standard in a whole country (or community or whatever), it takes a lot of time to replace the old standards (and parts and measurements and road signs, etc).
I guess it should take a long time with both sets of standards co-existing simultaneously before the old one gets replaced. And that's not even counting the sentiments of the people: if they don't want to change the way they measure things in their head, then they're not going to accept the new way.
Interesting point. But maybe we're talking about a self-referencing situation here.
Why do lumber yards have square sheets of wood which measure exactly 4 by 8 feet? It's not as if trees grow them exactly at that size.
They're cut to be that size because they're measured in feet, not meters. You could work just as well with a smaller 1m by 2m sheet. And people would then say, Why should I order a "3 feet 2 inches and 24/129ths of an inch by 6 feet 4 inches 48/129ths of an inch" sheet instead of a 1 by 2 sheet? (Not the exact numbers, but I dont have a calculator handy at the time...).
Anyway, my point is: comparing measures of items that have been already measured in one system is redundant.
If one really could eat email spam, what color and taste would it have? Nutritional value?
Two words: Soylent Pink.
Re:Ahhh, the old screw you foreigner tax.
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After all, in Mexico policing is a for profit business. You should assume like I do that the police are massively crooked whenever you go to a foreign nation, and be surprised when they are not.
Dammit, i'm a Mexican and I really would like to deny what you're saying. Sadly enough, in many backwater parts of the country that's just too true. And it's not only for tourists either.
All I can do is to apologize in behalf of the honest, working people in the rest of the country, and hope that those idiots come to realize that scaring away tourists is not gonna help this country at all.
Apparently uses number 6 through 101 on the list were so covered with ants as to be unreadable. Or maybe after getting to the 5. Profit! part, everything else is just redundant.
Oh yeah... that's good -- until these little computer-controlled nano-probes fall victim to a software virus eh?
Piffle. We'll just simply create computer-controlled nano-nano-probes to remove any signs of virii in the computer-controlled nano-probes. Must I think of everything?
Off Topic Remark: I sincerely thought that the Smashing Pumpkins would go on to become the next Pink Floyd or U2, when their music matured a little bit more... but then they go and split up. Sigh.
Back on topic: any idea if these new Play-ably Challenged CDs will be used in Latin American markets soon? The music piracy here is a little bit worse than in the States, so I'd say they would love to give it a test try here, too.
I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
Scene: a small, paradisical Pacific island, several square miles of golden beaches, clear blue seas, a sky so blue it hurts your eyes to look at it, and local native girls even prettier than the skies.
ISP Owner one: (Lying on the beach, with a coconut in his hand) So, watcha been doing?
ISP Owner two: Oh, the usual. You know, surf, scuba diving, banging the pretty native girls.
ISP Owner one: How's the SQL download doing?
ISP Owner two: 22% so far. At this rate, we'll get it all downloaded by next March.
ISP Owner one: Too bad we can't leave this "prison" yet... heh heh heh.
Yup, what a horrible, awful punishment that would be.
Perhaps we could petition them to set up webcams. I'd pay to see it.
No! No no no no no! Don't give the Chinese spammers any more ideas!!!
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American General: "And as you can see, using Duct Tape, several Car Batteries, and a metal bed frame, you can quickly torture those nasty Zapatista Rebels into submission."
Pfft! Car Batteries indeed. Everybody knows that spraying mineral water up the subject's nose is cheaper and just as efficient; nothing beats a good, old fashioned tehuacanazo. And for those who like to add some pizzazz to their torturing sessions, just add some powdered pepper to the mineral water.
(Wish I was kidding, but less than 20 years ago the Mexican police commonly used this technique to interrogate "criminals". Sad times indeed)
>>Tobacco gets heavier taxes and smoking gets banned from more and more places while alcohol kills more people >I can't believe that alcohol kills more people. There are some spectacular deaths when a drunk driver causes a major auto accident, but consider how many people die of lung cancer, emphysema, strokes, and heart disease from smoking.
Here's the deal: smoking gets banned because you are damaging other people's health when you are enjoying your legally acceptable cigar. Right now there's nothing illegal about smoking tobacco per se, but the Guv'ment is trying to prevent other people getting sick because of your secondary smoke.
On the other hand, alcohol isn't illegal to consume, either (unless you're a minor, of course), but it is against the law to drive while under the influence of alcohol. I guess people don't care much if I get all liquored up, get in my car, and drive off a bridge... hey, it's evolution in action, right? But people DO care if I crash right into a minivan full of soccer moms and kids.
So what's the difference? People have _known_ forever that drinking gets you stupid, irrational, and causes you to see people of the other sex as being hotter than they actually are. But people didn't know that smoking could kill you, and not only you, but the people around you; meanwhile, the tobacco companies have done their utmost to hide that kind of information from the consumers.
Besides, I agree with fmaxwell: alcohol in small to normal quantities is not addictive. Tobacco is. There's the difference.
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The only ones who would proudly proclaim that they don't participate in online gamers are the dumb.
/. and my modem disconnects, well, I just have to dial back, maybe lose a minute or two. If i'm playing Brood Wars or Quake3 online, that lost minute can cause me to lose what was otherwise a fun and enjoyable game.
Just a small contribution to the topic: I don't like to play online games, other than the occasional DikuMUD now and then, because my ISP isn't quite as trustworthy as I'd like. If i'm reading
Besides, I've always liked LAN Parties more, because there's nothing like the look on your friend's face in the other side of the room as you annihilate his sorry ass with your secret squad of zerglings, or frag him to tiny bits with a rocket launcher. But then that's just me.
a 40-year-old virgin with taped-together hornrim glasses, who plays MUDs for 20+ hours a week.
Hey! Who says you can't play MUDs for 20+ hours a week, and also get some? It is insulting to imply that you can't be a part of an online text-based role-playing community and also have a frecuent sex life. Hours and hours of pleasure and all.
Oh, you meant real life sex? With another person?
Uh...
Move along, nothing to see here.
I heard you need special ceramic tiles for this memory reentry. Or something like that
I'm guessing this joke will also fly waaay over the moderator's heads before disintegrating into several hundred small pieces.
People don't mess around when there are army guys around, and what says army better than camoflage and assault rifles?
A M1 Abrahams Tank. When I see camo and assault rifles, I think "NRA supporter".
Just dress the soldiers in military uniforms, they'll look more organized that way.
definitly a problem seeing our current non-super space shuttles are getting rare.
Rare? More like "well done" to "overcooked".
these were heroes who risked their lives to advance science and the space program and the gene pool is poorer for their loss
5 of them had children. So the gene pool managed to secure their future, so to speak.
Space exploration won't happen for real until miners, production engineers, manufacturing corporations, porn stars, hoteliers ands couriers are using space as an everyday part of their jobs.
Space Porn. Now THAT would really get people up (if you pardon my pun).
Face it guys, there's nothing on the moon. It's as barren and lifeless as it looks down here
Well, I may just be fantasizing here, but I can easily picture something in, say, 20 years or so...
A bunch of scientists find a weird combination of substances can be used to create ambient-temperature superconducting cables. The only problem is that it takes a mix of weird materials that can't be found on Earth. But guess what? You can find them (and mine them) in the Moon. So the U.S. Corporations say, "lets put a mining base in the Moon!".
Whoops, too late. The Chinese and/or Indians are already living there and they are taking all of the best mining and living spots in the Moon.
By the time the US is ready to set up operations there, the Chinese have started mining such materials and are making a killing in the markets. China becomes the first economical superpower in the Globe. The US gets relegated to second or third place. France surrendes.
We have elite teams of car thiefs that can take the threads and wheels off of a tank in less time than it takes to start the engine, and leave it standing on four cinder blocks. Even if the tank happens to be moving.
Heh. I've always wanted to see the "missing scenes" from Independence Day where a big mothership hovers over Mexico City, and goes down under millions of beggars, window-cleaners, juggler kids and fire-eaters. And gets robbed of everything that looks shiny or valuable enough, to be sold later in Tepito.
That is, if said mothership actually finds Mexico City under all that smog...
Plus the team composed of experts from very different fields. Don't forget the team, that's classic Crichton.
I've got several of Crichton's books, and that's what always sticks in my mind. Giant dinosaurs? Killer virii from outer space? Alien extraterrestrial spheres crashing into Earth from outer space (as one friend described Sphere once)? More giant dinosaurs? Nope, it's a book about a TEAM! (And you can always bet on who is gonna survive and who is gonna die).
Of course, some books like Eaters of the dead and Disclosure dont fit into the Crichton stereotype, and that's A good thing (tm) in my opinion. Real writers don't write a gazillion books with the same idea over and over (well, some do, but probably shouldn't).
Anyway, I haven't read Prey, and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. In paperback, of course.
My point is, I still want 4x8 foot panels until such time as I buy a house which is designed to a metric standard.
That's the thing with changing any such standard in a whole country (or community or whatever), it takes a lot of time to replace the old standards (and parts and measurements and road signs, etc).
I guess it should take a long time with both sets of standards co-existing simultaneously before the old one gets replaced. And that's not even counting the sentiments of the people: if they don't want to change the way they measure things in their head, then they're not going to accept the new way.
Cheers!
Interesting point. But maybe we're talking about a self-referencing situation here.
Why do lumber yards have square sheets of wood which measure exactly 4 by 8 feet? It's not as if trees grow them exactly at that size.
They're cut to be that size because they're measured in feet, not meters. You could work just as well with a smaller 1m by 2m sheet. And people would then say, Why should I order a "3 feet 2 inches and 24/129ths of an inch by 6 feet 4 inches 48/129ths of an inch" sheet instead of a 1 by 2 sheet? (Not the exact numbers, but I dont have a calculator handy at the time...).
Anyway, my point is: comparing measures of items that have been already measured in one system is redundant.
...so 10^27 meters are a lotta-meters?
If one really could eat email spam, what color and taste would it have? Nutritional value?
Two words: Soylent Pink.
After all, in Mexico policing is a for profit business. You should assume like I do that the police are massively crooked whenever you go to a foreign nation, and be surprised when they are not.
Dammit, i'm a Mexican and I really would like to deny what you're saying. Sadly enough, in many backwater parts of the country that's just too true. And it's not only for tourists either.
All I can do is to apologize in behalf of the honest, working people in the rest of the country, and hope that those idiots come to realize that scaring away tourists is not gonna help this country at all.
Apparently uses number 6 through 101 on the list were so covered with ants as to be unreadable. Or maybe after getting to the 5. Profit! part, everything else is just redundant.
You mean "Only in the United States". Although I hear similar things happen in Canada, so maybe "Only in North America."
Well it hasn't happened so frecuently here in Mexico, so maybe it happens "Only in Central-and-North-North America".
Oh yeah... that's good -- until these little computer-controlled nano-probes fall victim to a software virus eh?
Piffle. We'll just simply create computer-controlled nano-nano-probes to remove any signs of virii in the computer-controlled nano-probes. Must I think of everything?
Yay for the Floyd!
Off Topic Remark: I sincerely thought that the Smashing Pumpkins would go on to become the next Pink Floyd or U2, when their music matured a little bit more... but then they go and split up. Sigh.
Back on topic: any idea if these new Play-ably Challenged CDs will be used in Latin American markets soon? The music piracy here is a little bit worse than in the States, so I'd say they would love to give it a test try here, too.
I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
Scene: a small, paradisical Pacific island, several square miles of golden beaches, clear blue seas, a sky so blue it hurts your eyes to look at it, and local native girls even prettier than the skies.
ISP Owner one: (Lying on the beach, with a coconut in his hand) So, watcha been doing?
ISP Owner two: Oh, the usual. You know, surf, scuba diving, banging the pretty native girls.
ISP Owner one: How's the SQL download doing?
ISP Owner two: 22% so far. At this rate, we'll get it all downloaded by next March.
ISP Owner one: Too bad we can't leave this "prison" yet... heh heh heh.
Yup, what a horrible, awful punishment that would be.
At least BS is requried, for some techonolgies, more is required for education/job experience.
Yeah, it's plain to see that the patent process is full of BS (drumroll).
Perhaps we could petition them to set up webcams. I'd pay to see it.
No! No no no no no! Don't give the Chinese spammers any more ideas!!!
Hello and Greetings! You like see evil spammer in gulag? Watch hot inmates get advantage of evil spammer in shower! Just click here for hot, gulag shower webcam!
American General: "And as you can see, using Duct Tape, several Car Batteries, and a metal bed frame, you can quickly torture those nasty Zapatista Rebels into submission."
Pfft! Car Batteries indeed. Everybody knows that spraying mineral water up the subject's nose is cheaper and just as efficient; nothing beats a good, old fashioned tehuacanazo. And for those who like to add some pizzazz to their torturing sessions, just add some powdered pepper to the mineral water.
(Wish I was kidding, but less than 20 years ago the Mexican police commonly used this technique to interrogate "criminals". Sad times indeed)
Sebastian Roche plays a great cocky geneticst with a penchant for sex.
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A great cocky geneticist who likes sex. Man, sometimes it's just too easy to make fun of other people's comments here at
>>Tobacco gets heavier taxes and smoking gets banned from more and more places while alcohol kills more people
>I can't believe that alcohol kills more people. There are some spectacular deaths when a drunk driver causes a major auto accident, but consider how many people die of lung cancer, emphysema, strokes, and heart disease from smoking.
Here's the deal: smoking gets banned because you are damaging other people's health when you are enjoying your legally acceptable cigar. Right now there's nothing illegal about smoking tobacco per se, but the Guv'ment is trying to prevent other people getting sick because of your secondary smoke.
On the other hand, alcohol isn't illegal to consume, either (unless you're a minor, of course), but it is against the law to drive while under the influence of alcohol. I guess people don't care much if I get all liquored up, get in my car, and drive off a bridge... hey, it's evolution in action, right? But people DO care if I crash right into a minivan full of soccer moms and kids.
So what's the difference? People have _known_ forever that drinking gets you stupid, irrational, and causes you to see people of the other sex as being hotter than they actually are. But people didn't know that smoking could kill you, and not only you, but the people around you; meanwhile, the tobacco companies have done their utmost to hide that kind of information from the consumers.
Besides, I agree with fmaxwell: alcohol in small to normal quantities is not addictive. Tobacco is. There's the difference.