Doing public performances of pirated music lowers the cost of creating events by not having to pay for the music... as long as you don't get fined. By making events smaller and more personal, you allow increased social interaction and can increase the frequency of social gatherings.
The internet is just decentralizing culture. English speaking countries have created an enormous contribution to the creation of English culture and language through the Internet. It might not necessarily be "quality" or appeal to everyone, but who cares - you have the freedom to go find what interests you, and if you've reached a point that all art you see today is terrible, maybe you should be creating what you do find appealing. The Internet has also allowed me to be exposed to music from other countries and allows me to appreciate art from countries that don't speak English that I would have otherwise never have been exposed to.
Elton John, you're not the only artist on this planet.
I'm sure his work wasn't created in a vacuum, and he has probably been influenced by other artists. Increasing one's exposure to the works of your peers allows one to learn and be inspired to create. I see it as self-empowerment through enabling technologies.
You can get mirrors that are manufactured for a specific wavelength that are 99.98% reflective. They use them in lasers, especially Helium Neon lasers, since the gain in the tube is low, without precision mirrors the laser would never work to begin with. And I'm looking at a catalogue here by Edmund Optics, and their gold mirrors are 94-97% reflective for wavelengths 650 nm and above. The 1" gold mirror is $1,239... so yes, I'd like to see a brilliant military planner demand that all missiles and mortars be precision coated with gold.:-) Since any of the laser systems used to shoot down projectiles will likely be operating at infrared wavelengths, probably 1064 nm, since that's typical for a Nd:YAG laser (or for a COIL laser at 1.315 m), making a reflective coating for that wavelength, even if reflects only 80%, could be enough to render a system like this useless if they can't increase the beam power.
But since most projectiles aren't coated with anything, the cost of trying to counter a laser defense system would be very prohibitive and would only be worthwhile on the most expensive weapons, like ICBMs and cruise missiles.
I never thought I'd be seeing Prism Tanks so early though, I was expecting these things to come out 10 years from now, not now.
... and was convincing myself that the cigarette companies are actually trying to kill as many of us as possible. My largest argument for this was "if they weren't trying to kill us, they surely would have come up with a reasonably good delivery method by now...". After struggling with the initial few days of withdrawal, dreaming of various methods to destroy those who wish to destroy me, letting the hatred build up, Slashdot posts this article up. Fuck - I hate having my understanding of the world challenged like this,... at least I won't stick my head in the sand and pretend that I didn't read this article.
hey. we sent out a satellite a long time ago, and it's probably drifting about still...
maybe these aliens just drifted here after some horrible error - like not recalculating their old measurement system into a more common newer system - and they had possibly an explosive reactor failure on their mothership. there could be hundreds to thousands of them on a single large vessel, and when they bailed out, some died soon after to intense radiation exposure, or a design flaw that the vacuum of space allowed, but kept somewhat preserved inside their protective egg.
inside their escape pod could be alien bacteria or cellular forms....
Do you believe the affidavit? Does his family and friends believe it's a joke?
I imagine it's just the encryption laws that are the main restriction. Fork da projekt and den like remove teh crypto. They'll get a crypto-less OS, and I guess they'll have a reason to employ mathematicians.
It's all about the electric field strength bitches.
This can be derived from the power density of the transmitting source.
But in the end, when the electric field gets large enough, funky shit starts to happen.
I think 2.4 GHz arcing/flashover happens at field strengths between 20 kV/cm^2 and 40 kV/cm^2, depending on the air pressure. There's a d00d from Texas Tech that wrote some long evil thesis on this very topic.
In regards to that paper by Lai and Singh, I kind of dismissed the ideas they had a few years ago, including others claiming biological effects of microwaves, but have began to change my mind. Especially after the whole article on killing bacteria in dish clothes by putting them in the microwave oven for a minute or so.
... don't exist today. The reality of this is rather obvious, because if they did exist, the change required to stunt the progression of global warming would have already happened. The scientists are still trying to convince everyone, and they're just being ignored. I didn't know telling people THE TRUTH or at least - perceived truth - is totalitarian. It's our politicians, who are backed by giant industries that create this pollution, and consistently stop any project that would help individuals alleviate this problem (the electric car), that are the totalitarians. The scientific community has been telling them this over and over and over again, and yet nothing is fucking done about it. They just sit on their hands, and keep making excuses because there are some problems in the current hypothesis, yet the marked increase in global temperature is quite evident from the beginning of the industrial revolution.
When an business dumps toxic chemicals into a river, where people get their water supply, but also work at this same business, and are making lots of money, no one cares until someone gets awfully sick or dies. They just don't see the problem until it personally effects them. By that point it's too late, the damage has been done, the community is poisoned, cancer rates increase, etc etc
Do we really want to let the same thing happen to the whole planet? People need to take a fucking chance that the people who specialize in this field are correct, and let them do their job, instead of wanting to nail them to a fucking cross. These scientists have been sticking their necks out for a long time trying to get their point across. Maybe these scientists should be looking into the weapons industry for future employment, people with guns and bombs are not ignored. Then the totalitarian labels would be fair at least.
I love how Michael Crichton holds all sorts of credibility, just cause he wrote a FICTIONAL novel that challenges global warming. If he wanted to be held as a bastion of truth and justice, he would have wrote a book about global warming. Too bad most people don't have the patience to learn years of climatology and physics, just so they can understand a book. They might as well just flip to the last chapter, and read the conclusion - because they'll be all proud anyway they read a book that told them what to think. The same goes for Al Gore's movie.
Just stop supporting artists and productions that insist on using DRM. Support the people that are sharing their work in the way you'd like to see things done.
I'm all about the Creative Commons art, and frankly have stopped giving a shit about hollywood and major label record production a long time ago.
North Korea should join China. I imagine the Chinese government would stop this stupid never ending standoff between the north and south Koreas.
The North Korean people would probably be confused as to whether the Chinese communists are friends or enemies then and would hopefully avoid doing anything too crazy.
That wouldn't be a surprise either, I just stopped caring about wild conspiracies. It's just a conspiracy in terms of sponsoring Jack Thompson seems really self-defeating. There are real people spending real money to put bans or restrictions on video games, I think Microsoft would benefit in terms of marketing their products to people who actually care to buy their games. Plus I never really gave a shit about Halo....
Supporting a new OS!?!? They're not supporting the OS. They're supporting the hardware. This is just more bullshit from the Dell corp to say "See - no one wants Linux on our computers.". Why else are they not lowering the price? Plus I honestly don't think the software manufacturers pay Dell to put the software on - this is really backwards - it's Dell who pays them for the licenses. If anything, the only reason I can see for keeping the prices the same, is due to the added cost of implementing Linux into their product line and training their staff. Which involves making a new installation CD at the factory, and showing a few people in tech support how to troubleshoot hardware problems under Ubuntu.
Dell is just sabotaging sales of Linux based machines, simple as that.
... because really, they're just distributing a video game. This attack on gaming is stupid, just like many other laws trying to prevent social activities. It's a futuristic combat game, there is nothing REAL about any of it. The supposedly realistic world the game takes place in is a complete fictional fabrication. Unless Jack thinks Microsoft has a fucking time machine and knows that this is the true future.:-)
Why doesn't he focus his effort on banning violence from news reports... cause that's like real. Or how about violence in film? That is a depiction of real people, handling pseudo-weapons that are designed to look like real weapons, and through the use of special effects, depict the actual killing of people in as much graphic detail as possible (cause it looks cooler). He really needs to stop acting like a fucking crusader for the war on video games. I am under the impression that there is no "moral majority" backing any of his actions, and the generation of adults who grew up playing video games will just want Mr. Thompson to shut up.
And if he brings up the recent VT shootings, from what I understand of Cho's background, that he didn't play video games.
Can someone please throw a cream pie at Thompson, like ASAP? Someone already nailed BillyG with a pie, someone needs to get Jack.
Dude, they enabled Web Search logging on my now deleted Gmail account without asking me. I had an account before they offered the Web Search logging, and found myself having every search term logged, and every link I clicked on logged as well. The only way I found out was by making a new account for a friend, when it asked me if I wanted to enable this "feature". That was such a weird weird day, as I had written an angry email to Google about this "feature" and even mentioned that maybe I missed the press release of this "feature". I was busy studying for exams that week and found later that day there was a news article about the web search logging only two days before my angry email, basically defending their decisions. The odd part though, was that no other website seemed to have indexed the article until the same day I wrote my angry email.
Eitherway, it just pisses me off knowing that they specifically tried to tie my search terms and results to my account. I basically gave up my online privacy a long time ago. Google could scan my emails, they had my day calendar, they had several articles I've written in the documents editor, they logged my chats between friends and family, they had my full name, phone number, and indexed/cached every single piece of crap I've written online, but that wasn't enough? But did they really need to log my search terms, clicked links with time stamps?!? It would have been nice if I at least had been made aware of this "feature".
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'Zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'Zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
"Map randomization helps reduce multiplayer FPS from a legitimate competitive sport to just another amusement."
Uuuuhh I don't see how this makes it any less competitive. There are still teams and they are still fighting each other for some type of points. This just reduces the game to generalized skills, and would probably lead to increased player communication during a match. In a randomized map, I imagine it would be beneficial to tell your teammates where some weapon spawn is, or where a good sniper position is, and in regards to sniper positions, this would probably help a lot -- as the enemy doesn't know where all the default hiding locations are, they'll need things like cover fire and support , hence increasing team work...
The competitive teams that will probably be most successful will have good communication, generalized strategies, and a willing to depend on their teammates, not just trying to be a one-man show.
Go whine in some random CS server that plays de_dust 24/7.
I've been waiting for this day for a long time. I think I emailed Valve back when they first announced TF2, asking them to implement something like this.... now it's here!!
I hope I never have to play de_dust again!!! (well I actually can't play anything right now, cause I'm too lazy to configure the 3d drivers under ubuntu and then play around with Cedega to get Steam working...)
See, ever since Trent Reznor went on about some Open Source Resistance and setup websites about being the Hammer (no, not MC Hammer), any kid that makes a Doom/Quake/fps map, owns a hammer, or uses linux is OBVIOUSLY a terrorist.
This is seriously stupid. The kid should be given a fucking award for learning how to make a realistic map in some shitty map editor, not expelled and transferred to a reeducation center. Instead, they sell weapons to the mentally ill, and arrest the more talented youth of tomorrow. Who the fuck let's these knee jerk assholes into having power!? Yeah - let's keep arresting kids for doing nothing wrong, and owning a hammer!?!?, they'll discover 10 years from now what kind of consequences this continued behavior will spawn. Just goes to show us what happens when dull minds hold power in our society. Every fucking kid who likes video games wants to make a map of their school... the kids at this guy's school should show support for him and give the school board a real issue to worry about.
The FPS community can help here in a big way - start making accurate maps of every public building you can, and start putting them onto server rotation. The excuse can be: "We as citizens hold the right to practice and simulate a terrorist situation. At any point a terrorist can come into a shopping mall and start firing indiscriminately at shoppers. We, as citizens, need to learn how to respond in a situation like this, where we are unarmed and trying to survive. By understanding the shooting behaviour of a lone gunman, we can begin to understand what types of structures can be used as cover, or how to at least hide."
Don't let these neo-liberal conservative commie fascists win.
"Thank you Mario! But our Princess is in another castle."
But I would think the simplest approach would be to provide a room that can be easily lined with plastic. It wouldn't be a large room, but by lining it with plastic that can be torn down after "use", most fluids could be contained. There would obviously be a hole in the plastic where astronauts would enter the room, and a ventilation hole for air. There could be a zipper on both the entrance hole and the vent hole that can later be sealed. Think along the lines of a tent.
Plus, in addition to a "sex room" there could be a very very large database on-board of each astronaut's choice of Internet porn. I'm sure the cost of buying an account so someone can leech all the porn off would be marginal in comparison to the sex room.:-) Flesh lights, socks, and various phallic shaped toys,etc could also be supplied to each astronaut on-board. I also imagine condoms could be useful in preventing airborne fluids.
I think the astronauts would need to lack interest in activities like golden showers for any of this to be really practical.:-) That could be left for the shower if there was a really, really deep desire to urinate on a fellow astronaut. So yes - big shower rooms with benches and handle bars, where all the excess fluids can be jettisoned into space, sounds like a good idea.
Beige offices are annoying and are what lead people to extremes in their off hours. If you have just a normal comfortable place to work, you can be serious and goofy all throughout the day, then when you leave it's like you left a friends place or something.
Coincidently... my home office walls are painted a dark beige, but at least it has some tasteful artwork - like a big poster of Che Guevara, a Grand Theft Auto poster and some Escher-like posters, complete with a PC branded with various punk and anti-**AA stickers.
Besides, we know all the tight-ass execs who want the neutral beige offices are doing blow off a hookers ass during lunch anyways...:-)
It's good to know that some/.ers know the truth about corporate executives.:-) I've watched an auto exec roll a joint mixed with weed and hash in front of me, and an oil exec smoke hash oil. I think if they knew how much I posted on the Internet, they'd really not have done that. So far I haven't incriminated any of them... So I imagine the 'blow off the hookers ass' is probably left for the office. I'm sure a bump of coke and some head midday makes for a productive afternoon, or at least help relieve stress after you just laid off a few thousand employees.
Otherwise, I'm seriously considering a life of work from home. I'm sick of being stalked by my employers, or having to deal with their inflated egos. Everyone of them seem to find it necessary to belittle their employees as a means of flexing the only power they have in life. Oddly enough, the most modest bosses I've had all owned/managed a blue-collar shop and basically allowed us the greatest freedom over any office environment. Plus talking back towards someone more senior usually led to other co-workers joining in the heckling and the more senior employee lightening up a bit. If I did this in any office environment, I'd pretty much be fired within the following days. It seems so backwards, but it is a reasonably accurate reflection of my work experience -- It's all very confusing.
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Doing public performances of pirated music lowers the cost of creating events by not having to pay for the music ... as long as you don't get fined. By making events smaller and more personal, you allow increased social interaction and can increase the frequency of social gatherings.
The internet is just decentralizing culture. English speaking countries have created an enormous contribution to the creation of English culture and language through the Internet. It might not necessarily be "quality" or appeal to everyone, but who cares - you have the freedom to go find what interests you, and if you've reached a point that all art you see today is terrible, maybe you should be creating what you do find appealing. The Internet has also allowed me to be exposed to music from other countries and allows me to appreciate art from countries that don't speak English that I would have otherwise never have been exposed to.
Elton John, you're not the only artist on this planet.
I'm sure his work wasn't created in a vacuum, and he has probably been influenced by other artists. Increasing one's exposure to the works of your peers allows one to learn and be inspired to create. I see it as self-empowerment through enabling technologies.
You can get mirrors that are manufactured for a specific wavelength that are 99.98% reflective. They use them in lasers, especially Helium Neon lasers, since the gain in the tube is low, without precision mirrors the laser would never work to begin with. And I'm looking at a catalogue here by Edmund Optics, and their gold mirrors are 94-97% reflective for wavelengths 650 nm and above. The 1" gold mirror is $1,239... so yes, I'd like to see a brilliant military planner demand that all missiles and mortars be precision coated with gold. :-) Since any of the laser systems used to shoot down projectiles will likely be operating at infrared wavelengths, probably 1064 nm, since that's typical for a Nd:YAG laser (or for a COIL laser at 1.315 m), making a reflective coating for that wavelength, even if reflects only 80%, could be enough to render a system like this useless if they can't increase the beam power.
But since most projectiles aren't coated with anything, the cost of trying to counter a laser defense system would be very prohibitive and would only be worthwhile on the most expensive weapons, like ICBMs and cruise missiles.
I never thought I'd be seeing Prism Tanks so early though, I was expecting these things to come out 10 years from now, not now.
... and was convincing myself that the cigarette companies are actually trying to kill as many of us as possible. My largest argument for this was "if they weren't trying to kill us, they surely would have come up with a reasonably good delivery method by now...". ... at least I won't stick my head in the sand and pretend that I didn't read this article.
After struggling with the initial few days of withdrawal, dreaming of various methods to destroy those who wish to destroy me, letting the hatred build up, Slashdot posts this article up. Fuck - I hate having my understanding of the world challenged like this,
The light is a comin'....
hey. we sent out a satellite a long time ago, and it's probably drifting about still...
maybe these aliens just drifted here after some horrible error - like not recalculating their old measurement system into a more common newer system - and they had possibly an explosive reactor failure on their mothership. there could be hundreds to thousands of them on a single large vessel, and when they bailed out, some died soon after to intense radiation exposure, or a design flaw that the vacuum of space allowed, but kept somewhat preserved inside their protective egg.
inside their escape pod could be alien bacteria or cellular forms....
Do you believe the affidavit? Does his family and friends believe it's a joke?
...usually a fork will do.
I imagine it's just the encryption laws that are the main restriction. Fork da projekt and den like remove teh crypto. They'll get a crypto-less OS, and I guess they'll have a reason to employ mathematicians.
It's all about the electric field strength bitches.
This can be derived from the power density of the transmitting source.
But in the end, when the electric field gets large enough, funky shit starts to happen.
I think 2.4 GHz arcing/flashover happens at field strengths between 20 kV/cm^2 and 40 kV/cm^2, depending on the air pressure. There's a d00d from Texas Tech that wrote some long evil thesis on this very topic.
In regards to that paper by Lai and Singh, I kind of dismissed the ideas they had a few years ago, including others claiming biological effects of microwaves, but have began to change my mind. Especially after the whole article on killing bacteria in dish clothes by putting them in the microwave oven for a minute or so.
... don't exist today. The reality of this is rather obvious, because if they did exist, the change required to stunt the progression of global warming would have already happened. The scientists are still trying to convince everyone, and they're just being ignored. I didn't know telling people THE TRUTH or at least - perceived truth - is totalitarian. It's our politicians, who are backed by giant industries that create this pollution, and consistently stop any project that would help individuals alleviate this problem (the electric car), that are the totalitarians. The scientific community has been telling them this over and over and over again, and yet nothing is fucking done about it. They just sit on their hands, and keep making excuses because there are some problems in the current hypothesis, yet the marked increase in global temperature is quite evident from the beginning of the industrial revolution.
When an business dumps toxic chemicals into a river, where people get their water supply, but also work at this same business, and are making lots of money, no one cares until someone gets awfully sick or dies. They just don't see the problem until it personally effects them. By that point it's too late, the damage has been done, the community is poisoned, cancer rates increase, etc etc
Do we really want to let the same thing happen to the whole planet? People need to take a fucking chance that the people who specialize in this field are correct, and let them do their job, instead of wanting to nail them to a fucking cross. These scientists have been sticking their necks out for a long time trying to get their point across. Maybe these scientists should be looking into the weapons industry for future employment, people with guns and bombs are not ignored. Then the totalitarian labels would be fair at least.
I love how Michael Crichton holds all sorts of credibility, just cause he wrote a FICTIONAL novel that challenges global warming. If he wanted to be held as a bastion of truth and justice, he would have wrote a book about global warming. Too bad most people don't have the patience to learn years of climatology and physics, just so they can understand a book. They might as well just flip to the last chapter, and read the conclusion - because they'll be all proud anyway they read a book that told them what to think. The same goes for Al Gore's movie.
Just stop supporting artists and productions that insist on using DRM. Support the people that are sharing their work in the way you'd like to see things done.
I'm all about the Creative Commons art, and frankly have stopped giving a shit about hollywood and major label record production a long time ago.
North Korea should join China. I imagine the Chinese government would stop this stupid never ending standoff between the north and south Koreas.
The North Korean people would probably be confused as to whether the Chinese communists are friends or enemies then and would hopefully avoid doing anything too crazy.
That wouldn't be a surprise either, I just stopped caring about wild conspiracies. It's just a conspiracy in terms of sponsoring Jack Thompson seems really self-defeating. There are real people spending real money to put bans or restrictions on video games, I think Microsoft would benefit in terms of marketing their products to people who actually care to buy their games. Plus I never really gave a shit about Halo....
:-)
What we need is GTA online gang warfare.
Oh come on that's not fair.
But I do think in this picture, he looks like he belongs in Kung Pow.
The government can't help you. They're too busy helping themselves.
Supporting a new OS!?!? They're not supporting the OS. They're supporting the hardware. This is just more bullshit from the Dell corp to say "See - no one wants Linux on our computers.". Why else are they not lowering the price? Plus I honestly don't think the software manufacturers pay Dell to put the software on - this is really backwards - it's Dell who pays them for the licenses. If anything, the only reason I can see for keeping the prices the same, is due to the added cost of implementing Linux into their product line and training their staff. Which involves making a new installation CD at the factory, and showing a few people in tech support how to troubleshoot hardware problems under Ubuntu.
Dell is just sabotaging sales of Linux based machines, simple as that.
... because really, they're just distributing a video game. This attack on gaming is stupid, just like many other laws trying to prevent social activities. It's a futuristic combat game, there is nothing REAL about any of it. The supposedly realistic world the game takes place in is a complete fictional fabrication. Unless Jack thinks Microsoft has a fucking time machine and knows that this is the true future. :-)
... cause that's like real. Or how about violence in film? That is a depiction of real people, handling pseudo-weapons that are designed to look like real weapons, and through the use of special effects, depict the actual killing of people in as much graphic detail as possible (cause it looks cooler). He really needs to stop acting like a fucking crusader for the war on video games. I am under the impression that there is no "moral majority" backing any of his actions, and the generation of adults who grew up playing video games will just want Mr. Thompson to shut up.
Why doesn't he focus his effort on banning violence from news reports
And if he brings up the recent VT shootings, from what I understand of Cho's background, that he didn't play video games.
Can someone please throw a cream pie at Thompson, like ASAP? Someone already nailed BillyG with a pie, someone needs to get Jack.
Dude, they enabled Web Search logging on my now deleted Gmail account without asking me. I had an account before they offered the Web Search logging, and found myself having every search term logged, and every link I clicked on logged as well. The only way I found out was by making a new account for a friend, when it asked me if I wanted to enable this "feature". That was such a weird weird day, as I had written an angry email to Google about this "feature" and even mentioned that maybe I missed the press release of this "feature". I was busy studying for exams that week and found later that day there was a news article about the web search logging only two days before my angry email, basically defending their decisions. The odd part though, was that no other website seemed to have indexed the article until the same day I wrote my angry email.
Eitherway, it just pisses me off knowing that they specifically tried to tie my search terms and results to my account. I basically gave up my online privacy a long time ago. Google could scan my emails, they had my day calendar, they had several articles I've written in the documents editor, they logged my chats between friends and family, they had my full name, phone number, and indexed/cached every single piece of crap I've written online, but that wasn't enough? But did they really need to log my search terms, clicked links with time stamps?!? It would have been nice if I at least had been made aware of this "feature".
Maybe it's time to learn a lesson from Zero Wing.
....
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'Zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'Zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
... the power of determined nerds and bulk supplies of assorted stimulants.
"Map randomization helps reduce multiplayer FPS from a legitimate competitive sport to just another amusement."
Uuuuhh I don't see how this makes it any less competitive. There are still teams and they are still fighting each other for some type of points. This just reduces the game to generalized skills, and would probably lead to increased player communication during a match. In a randomized map, I imagine it would be beneficial to tell your teammates where some weapon spawn is, or where a good sniper position is, and in regards to sniper positions, this would probably help a lot -- as the enemy doesn't know where all the default hiding locations are, they'll need things like cover fire and support , hence increasing team work...
The competitive teams that will probably be most successful will have good communication, generalized strategies, and a willing to depend on their teammates, not just trying to be a one-man show.
Go whine in some random CS server that plays de_dust 24/7.
I've been waiting for this day for a long time. I think I emailed Valve back when they first announced TF2, asking them to implement something like this .... now it's here!!
I hope I never have to play de_dust again!!! (well I actually can't play anything right now, cause I'm too lazy to configure the 3d drivers under ubuntu and then play around with Cedega to get Steam working...)
Either way, thank you Valve.
You guys need to mint a few million quarters that have the "All Seeing Eye" on it. The eye needs to be holographic for added effect.
That's awesome. Thank you for writing that.
See, ever since Trent Reznor went on about some Open Source Resistance and setup websites about being the Hammer (no, not MC Hammer), any kid that makes a Doom/Quake/fps map, owns a hammer, or uses linux is OBVIOUSLY a terrorist.
... the kids at this guy's school should show support for him and give the school board a real issue to worry about.
This is seriously stupid. The kid should be given a fucking award for learning how to make a realistic map in some shitty map editor, not expelled and transferred to a reeducation center. Instead, they sell weapons to the mentally ill, and arrest the more talented youth of tomorrow. Who the fuck let's these knee jerk assholes into having power!? Yeah - let's keep arresting kids for doing nothing wrong, and owning a hammer!?!?, they'll discover 10 years from now what kind of consequences this continued behavior will spawn. Just goes to show us what happens when dull minds hold power in our society. Every fucking kid who likes video games wants to make a map of their school
The FPS community can help here in a big way - start making accurate maps of every public building you can, and start putting them onto server rotation. The excuse can be: "We as citizens hold the right to practice and simulate a terrorist situation. At any point a terrorist can come into a shopping mall and start firing indiscriminately at shoppers. We, as citizens, need to learn how to respond in a situation like this, where we are unarmed and trying to survive. By understanding the shooting behaviour of a lone gunman, we can begin to understand what types of structures can be used as cover, or how to at least hide."
Don't let these neo-liberal conservative commie fascists win.
"Thank you Mario! But our Princess is in another castle."
They need some sort of airborne jizz scrubber. :-)
:-) Flesh lights, socks, and various phallic shaped toys,etc could also be supplied to each astronaut on-board. I also imagine condoms could be useful in preventing airborne fluids.
:-) That could be left for the shower if there was a really, really deep desire to urinate on a fellow astronaut. So yes - big shower rooms with benches and handle bars, where all the excess fluids can be jettisoned into space, sounds like a good idea.
But I would think the simplest approach would be to provide a room that can be easily lined with plastic. It wouldn't be a large room, but by lining it with plastic that can be torn down after "use", most fluids could be contained. There would obviously be a hole in the plastic where astronauts would enter the room, and a ventilation hole for air. There could be a zipper on both the entrance hole and the vent hole that can later be sealed. Think along the lines of a tent.
Plus, in addition to a "sex room" there could be a very very large database on-board of each astronaut's choice of Internet porn. I'm sure the cost of buying an account so someone can leech all the porn off would be marginal in comparison to the sex room.
I think the astronauts would need to lack interest in activities like golden showers for any of this to be really practical.
Beige offices are annoying and are what lead people to extremes in their off hours. If you have just a normal comfortable place to work, you can be serious and goofy all throughout the day, then when you leave it's like you left a friends place or something.
... my home office walls are painted a dark beige, but at least it has some tasteful artwork - like a big poster of Che Guevara, a Grand Theft Auto poster and some Escher-like posters, complete with a PC branded with various punk and anti-**AA stickers.
:-)
/.ers know the truth about corporate executives. :-) I've watched an auto exec roll a joint mixed with weed and hash in front of me, and an oil exec smoke hash oil. I think if they knew how much I posted on the Internet, they'd really not have done that. So far I haven't incriminated any of them... So I imagine the 'blow off the hookers ass' is probably left for the office. I'm sure a bump of coke and some head midday makes for a productive afternoon, or at least help relieve stress after you just laid off a few thousand employees.
Coincidently
Besides, we know all the tight-ass execs who want the neutral beige offices are doing blow off a hookers ass during lunch anyways...
It's good to know that some
Otherwise, I'm seriously considering a life of work from home. I'm sick of being stalked by my employers, or having to deal with their inflated egos. Everyone of them seem to find it necessary to belittle their employees as a means of flexing the only power they have in life. Oddly enough, the most modest bosses I've had all owned/managed a blue-collar shop and basically allowed us the greatest freedom over any office environment. Plus talking back towards someone more senior usually led to other co-workers joining in the heckling and the more senior employee lightening up a bit. If I did this in any office environment, I'd pretty much be fired within the following days. It seems so backwards, but it is a reasonably accurate reflection of my work experience -- It's all very confusing.