Dear ERSB: A modder adding nudity to the game? This is the software equivalent of a kid picking up a pen and comic book and drawing breasts and a mustache on Wonder Woman.
The Teen rating was appropriate. The Mature rating based off of third party modifications is not.
One of the dangers of duck hunting with dogs in alberta is that some of the stagnant ponds become so botulism-infected that ducks land, feed, and die, and the water is so toxic with botulism toxin that if your bird dog jumps into the water, he/she can die from the exposure, particularly if they drink from it.
Leads to the interesting possibility of xenophilic bacteria and algae impacting Jupiter and having their entry slowed greatly by the thick atmosphere. The deeper it goes, the warmer it gets, and there are bands in Jupiter's atmosphere that are comparable to Earth's atmosphere, past and present.
Might be interesting to one day discover man was far from the first Earth-borne species to begin colonizing other planets in the solar system.
I assure you, there will never come a time in human history where we will be able to "beat" bacteria. Look at pennicillin; we've had it for less than a century and already resistant organisms are reducing the effectiveness of pennicillins dramatically. Most medical sources are predicting that, functionally speaking, pennicillins will within the next century become relatively obsolete.
Not because we have anything better, or will develop it. But because bacteria get so, so many more rolls at the dice than we do. Give a bacterium species a one in a million chance at surviving the best technology you have. That still leaves you, in a single kilogram of dirt alone, millions of survivors.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Ultimately, intelligence will never get the chance to overcome bacteria, because bacteria will overcome us first.
One of my favorite mods was the Realistic Gold Mod for morrowind, where every merchant would have 10x their usual base gold, meaning that they'd actually have enough money to buy things from you. You still couldn't get full value for the rediculously valuable items, but boo-freakin'-hoo.
My personal favorite CE set was/everything/ maxed with constant enchant Enhance Luck. Nothing like having a luck of 224 to boost the game in your favor.
Noooooo! That was my favorite HAX!!!1 in Morrowind; spend an hour gathering all your ingredients for some massive intelligence-boosting potions, snowball them by drinking and making a new one, repeating, etc.
Hilarious to get all your stats up into the multiple thousands, and then killing Vivec in one empty-handed punch.
If I had any mod points, I would mod you up to 5 and beyond.
Just read that Bruce Sterling article you've linked to; and it spells out, in a clear, measured way, just why we are presently so badly f*cked against bacteria.
Importing them back into Canada is where the issue comes into play. They can and do assess the levy on imported discs, and if you're caught with a stack of blank CD's, the customs official WILL assess the levy and apply it.
I'd strongly recommend a Piersporter Riesling, ideally green label, for a white. For a red wine, Hardy's Stamp of Australia Shiraz (or really, anything by Hardy's that's pure shiraz, not a blend of Shiraz Cabernet-Sauvignon). These two are the ones I've had the most success with when it comes to "You don't like wine? Give this a quick taste!" and converting another person over into grudgingly admitting they've found a wine they like.;)
Put sand in space, in orbit both east-west and west-east (and possibly both directions north-south for polar orbits), thus denying competing countries anything more than low earth orbit for years to come. Actually, you'd probably be denying everybody orbit. But then a space elevator becomes a much more valuable concept, at least until it is abraded into dust by the passing sand.
Heh. I'm a professional in the Loss Control industry. It's scary how many people want to say "Well, we don't know if it is a hazard yet, so let's not let that slow us down! If it's a hazard we'll fix it after!"
As far as nanoscale materials go, many of them are rather horrific. Turns out that gold, one of the least reactive metals, at nano-scale particles start to bind and do all sorts of nasty things within the body. Nothing like heavy metal salts to make your day, mm-mm!
And yes, many proposed nano-scale materials present threats to the health of the respiratory system equivalent to or beyond asbestos. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson has some great views of health complications.
"I have been patient. I didn't jump in the dark. I have grown through the research all these years. It was in 1985 I discovered the cells. It has taken 20 years before I felt we had the technology to apply this to people. After spending this amount of time developing it, I'm not in a hurry.""If it is proved, I think there will be so much publicity we will be lucky to stay in the field. It will be like a tidal wave. But the only race I'm in is the human race."At the beginning of the year, when he and his team moved from the national institute for medical research in the US to set up the UCL spinal repair unit, he predicted the first attempts in humans would not take place for two to three years.
"I was wrong. Isn't that nice?" he said.
Alright, I like this guy!
Don't ignore there's more components in the "fuel" than diesel. Oxygen is the other part of the equation.
It's not a perpetual motion machine if it is still consuming fuel. It might produce more energy than the diesel alone can generate, but it still requires free oxygen.
The movie costs are in fact like this. (With a strong "depending on the distribution cost of the film" which can be as low as 2-3$ for a low-budget film, and upwards of 14$ for an extremely high-budget film, summer blockbusters, etc.)
So, on average, a movie theatre is making a profit on most tickets, since most movies don't cost them more than the ticket price. But some do.
Other means of revenue involve advertisements, promotions of other upcoming films, concession prices, etc.
As an interesting side note, the prohibition of outside food and drink is for two reasons: Revenue protection, and insurance. The screen up at the front costs a movie theatre about 20 thousand dollars.
Insurance covers food and drink being thrown at the screen... but only if the food was bought at the concession!
A movie that only cost 3 million to make. The distributors and studios put a FAR smaller per-ticket-royalty cost on the movie theatres than they would for a movie that cost 100 million to make.
Pretty much any science fiction movie you've seen in the past five years, and the movie theatre you sat in was losing money by the ticket. They have to make that back. Volume only works when you can handle the volume required (hence the recent growth of mega-theatres; they're equipped to handle that volume of people, and are cheaper-per-customer to run than smaller theatres).
No, not the price of labor, although the payscale for some high talent actors is amazing. But let's face it; most of those actors aren't just selling their talent, they're selling their name and history of past successes in roles.
But here's an ugly truth: The next time you go to a movie theatre to see the next big summer blockbuster sci-fi blam-kapow film, you'll probably pay, say, $10.00 for the film ticket.
It costs the theatre $14.00 for the rights to show you that movie, per person. So right off the bat, they've lost $4.00. Hence the insane prices at the concession: They *have* to make that money back at the concession, or else they have to raise the ticket prices by %40 or so.
The cost for special effects and high budgets is passed on in this way. The rights for a theatre to screen a movie made on a budget of 20 million dollars is much cheaper. The rights for a theatre to screen a movie that cost 200 million dollars is much more expensive.
Theatres frequently lose money per ticket sold, on the more expensive films.
The ultimate orbital denial system. Get enough propellant together to get the sand in orbit, burst, and spend the next few decades orbiting the earth. If you want to get really fancy, load it with, say, pennies instead. A cargo hold on a military shuttle filled with pennies would cost a mere percentage of a military satellite, and would deny orbit to everybody for years to come.
In all seriousness, this is something for countries to look at in the next century. Orbital denial will be a powerful threat, because it really will be easy to do.
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Dear ERSB: A modder adding nudity to the game? This is the software equivalent of a kid picking up a pen and comic book and drawing breasts and a mustache on Wonder Woman.
The Teen rating was appropriate. The Mature rating based off of third party modifications is not.
Say watt?
Botulism, however, would work just fine.
One of the dangers of duck hunting with dogs in alberta is that some of the stagnant ponds become so botulism-infected that ducks land, feed, and die, and the water is so toxic with botulism toxin that if your bird dog jumps into the water, he/she can die from the exposure, particularly if they drink from it.
Leads to the interesting possibility of xenophilic bacteria and algae impacting Jupiter and having their entry slowed greatly by the thick atmosphere. The deeper it goes, the warmer it gets, and there are bands in Jupiter's atmosphere that are comparable to Earth's atmosphere, past and present.
Might be interesting to one day discover man was far from the first Earth-borne species to begin colonizing other planets in the solar system.
I assure you, there will never come a time in human history where we will be able to "beat" bacteria. Look at pennicillin; we've had it for less than a century and already resistant organisms are reducing the effectiveness of pennicillins dramatically. Most medical sources are predicting that, functionally speaking, pennicillins will within the next century become relatively obsolete.
Not because we have anything better, or will develop it. But because bacteria get so, so many more rolls at the dice than we do. Give a bacterium species a one in a million chance at surviving the best technology you have. That still leaves you, in a single kilogram of dirt alone, millions of survivors.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Ultimately, intelligence will never get the chance to overcome bacteria, because bacteria will overcome us first.
One of my favorite mods was the Realistic Gold Mod for morrowind, where every merchant would have 10x their usual base gold, meaning that they'd actually have enough money to buy things from you. You still couldn't get full value for the rediculously valuable items, but boo-freakin'-hoo.
/everything/ maxed with constant enchant Enhance Luck. Nothing like having a luck of 224 to boost the game in your favor.
My personal favorite CE set was
Noooooo! That was my favorite HAX!!!1 in Morrowind; spend an hour gathering all your ingredients for some massive intelligence-boosting potions, snowball them by drinking and making a new one, repeating, etc.
Hilarious to get all your stats up into the multiple thousands, and then killing Vivec in one empty-handed punch.
If I had any mod points, I would mod you up to 5 and beyond.
Just read that Bruce Sterling article you've linked to; and it spells out, in a clear, measured way, just why we are presently so badly f*cked against bacteria.
Importing them back into Canada is where the issue comes into play. They can and do assess the levy on imported discs, and if you're caught with a stack of blank CD's, the customs official WILL assess the levy and apply it.
Seconded. System Shock 2 is one of my all-time favorite games.
:D
And the first time I played it I actually shrieked like a little girl, much to the amusement of my LAN-gaming buddies.
That being said, cooperative singleplayer REALLY helps take the horror out of it.
I'd strongly recommend a Piersporter Riesling, ideally green label, for a white. For a red wine, Hardy's Stamp of Australia Shiraz (or really, anything by Hardy's that's pure shiraz, not a blend of Shiraz Cabernet-Sauvignon). These two are the ones I've had the most success with when it comes to "You don't like wine? Give this a quick taste!" and converting another person over into grudgingly admitting they've found a wine they like. ;)
/obligatory
Cancermon! I choose you!
Put sand in space, in orbit both east-west and west-east (and possibly both directions north-south for polar orbits), thus denying competing countries anything more than low earth orbit for years to come. Actually, you'd probably be denying everybody orbit. But then a space elevator becomes a much more valuable concept, at least until it is abraded into dust by the passing sand.
Heh. I'm a professional in the Loss Control industry. It's scary how many people want to say "Well, we don't know if it is a hazard yet, so let's not let that slow us down! If it's a hazard we'll fix it after!"
As far as nanoscale materials go, many of them are rather horrific. Turns out that gold, one of the least reactive metals, at nano-scale particles start to bind and do all sorts of nasty things within the body. Nothing like heavy metal salts to make your day, mm-mm!
And yes, many proposed nano-scale materials present threats to the health of the respiratory system equivalent to or beyond asbestos. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson has some great views of health complications.
"I have been patient. I didn't jump in the dark. I have grown through the research all these years. It was in 1985 I discovered the cells. It has taken 20 years before I felt we had the technology to apply this to people. After spending this amount of time developing it, I'm not in a hurry." "If it is proved, I think there will be so much publicity we will be lucky to stay in the field. It will be like a tidal wave. But the only race I'm in is the human race." At the beginning of the year, when he and his team moved from the national institute for medical research in the US to set up the UCL spinal repair unit, he predicted the first attempts in humans would not take place for two to three years. "I was wrong. Isn't that nice?" he said. Alright, I like this guy!
Bah. 127.0.0.1 has MUCH better bandwidth. So much, in fact, that I've already downloaded everything the site has to offer! Awesome!
Don't ignore there's more components in the "fuel" than diesel. Oxygen is the other part of the equation. It's not a perpetual motion machine if it is still consuming fuel. It might produce more energy than the diesel alone can generate, but it still requires free oxygen.
Quick, someone code an ASCII mod for it!
The movie costs are in fact like this. (With a strong "depending on the distribution cost of the film" which can be as low as 2-3$ for a low-budget film, and upwards of 14$ for an extremely high-budget film, summer blockbusters, etc.)
So, on average, a movie theatre is making a profit on most tickets, since most movies don't cost them more than the ticket price. But some do.
Other means of revenue involve advertisements, promotions of other upcoming films, concession prices, etc.
As an interesting side note, the prohibition of outside food and drink is for two reasons: Revenue protection, and insurance. The screen up at the front costs a movie theatre about 20 thousand dollars.
Insurance covers food and drink being thrown at the screen... but only if the food was bought at the concession!
Incorrect. Their prices are far from fixed.
A movie that only cost 3 million to make. The distributors and studios put a FAR smaller per-ticket-royalty cost on the movie theatres than they would for a movie that cost 100 million to make.
Pretty much any science fiction movie you've seen in the past five years, and the movie theatre you sat in was losing money by the ticket. They have to make that back. Volume only works when you can handle the volume required (hence the recent growth of mega-theatres; they're equipped to handle that volume of people, and are cheaper-per-customer to run than smaller theatres).
The bigger concern is NOT contaminating Mars, it is contaminating Earth.
I can live with accidentally wiping out all less-developed life on a neighbouring planet accidentally.
I cannot live (literally) with something accidentally wiping out all life on my home planet!
Separating water into component hydrogen and oxygen takes more energy than you get out of burning the hydrogen. Electrolysis is VERY energy expensive.
Liberating hydrogen from an ammonia mixture is probably much cheaper, energy-wise, than trying to break stable molecular bonds.
No, not the price of labor, although the payscale for some high talent actors is amazing. But let's face it; most of those actors aren't just selling their talent, they're selling their name and history of past successes in roles.
But here's an ugly truth: The next time you go to a movie theatre to see the next big summer blockbuster sci-fi blam-kapow film, you'll probably pay, say, $10.00 for the film ticket.
It costs the theatre $14.00 for the rights to show you that movie, per person. So right off the bat, they've lost $4.00. Hence the insane prices at the concession: They *have* to make that money back at the concession, or else they have to raise the ticket prices by %40 or so.
The cost for special effects and high budgets is passed on in this way. The rights for a theatre to screen a movie made on a budget of 20 million dollars is much cheaper. The rights for a theatre to screen a movie that cost 200 million dollars is much more expensive.
Theatres frequently lose money per ticket sold, on the more expensive films.
Sand.
In space.
The ultimate orbital denial system. Get enough propellant together to get the sand in orbit, burst, and spend the next few decades orbiting the earth. If you want to get really fancy, load it with, say, pennies instead. A cargo hold on a military shuttle filled with pennies would cost a mere percentage of a military satellite, and would deny orbit to everybody for years to come.
In all seriousness, this is something for countries to look at in the next century. Orbital denial will be a powerful threat, because it really will be easy to do.
Fine, he was a spammer.
Somewhere he probably has a mother, still alive, who is sobbing over his grave. To her, he was her boy, her son, a part of her flesh and blood.
What would you tell her? "Tough shit, grandma. Your boy got offed over some spam."
Shame.