The Japanese are also at least a hundred years ahead of us in cartoon porn, particularly tentacle rape porn. This "tentacle gap", as I call it, cannot be allowed to continue.
I'm no expert, but as I recall the major problem with probes into the gas giants is that the immense pressure inside of them would crush anything we're capable of making, and electromagnetic interference from the constant storms would make it impossible to transmit any data out.
Plus, every time anyone mentions sending probes into Uranus over at NASA, nobody can stop giggling long enough to seriously work on the problem.
I heard all this talk about a war between Russia and Georgia and got kind of anxious, but itturns out it's just a cyberwar. The media really should stop sensationalizing these things like that.
So basically the solution is to live close to an urban center. Unfortunately, housing is generally prohibitively expensive close to most urban centers (except for the ones that are so far gone with blight that there are no real jobs there anyway).
The American city (especially in the west) is built around personal automobiles. The affordable houses are well outside of walking or biking distance to most of the jobs, and are too chaotically arranged to allow for efficient mass transit.
Individual choice is part of the equation, but sane urban planning is also a big part of it. Cities and counties need to start doing more to encourage high density housing near urban centers and discourage the building of yet more suburbs and exurbs. Unfortunately, most local governments are too far in the pockets of developers to ever enforce strict zoning of that nature. Most of the new development I've seen near urban centers has also tended to be of the million-dollar-condo variety as well, which doesn't do a whole lot to solve the problem either.
It would probably be a lot easier to do your internship locally and then apply for a job in the US after you graduate.
Hell, if your ultimate goal is to work in the US, your best bet is probably to do your internship in India or China and then market yourself to US employers as an "outsourcing specialist".
Through politely worded mass mailings and TV commercials with catchy jingles shown during reruns of "Will & Grace" of course...how else would you expect a totalitarian regime to enforce anything?
Why is it, when there are more important issues, this ONE, probably a lesser issue, gets all the "controversy" air-time?
I, for one, would like to hear a little more coverage of how the Chinese got all of their 16 year old female gymnasts to all look between the ages of 8 and 12. We know they're all 16, though, because, according to the broadcast, their passports confirm it. What's the point of the new "16 and over" rule if the only way they check ages is by looking at government issued passports? Surely the government would have no reason to lie! Sort of like the East German women that were all drug-free in the '70s and '80s, despite the adams apples and mustaches.
The gymnastics events have always been sort of a joke as far as fairness is concerned, but the new incomprehensible scoring system and the apparently barely enforced 16 and over rule seems to have made things worse, not better.
I am so sick of "talking points." It just reeks of brand advertising.
Modern politics is all about brand advertising. Nobody really wants a serious discussion of the issues, least of all the candidates. You tell your base what they want to hear, you demonize your opponent in hopes of demoralizing his base, and you get your people to drive your supporters to the polls while trying to disenfranchise your opponent's supporters. If all else fails, you throw some ballot boxes into a river.
The whole idea is doing whatever is necessary to get more people to vote for you than for the other guy. Glitzy advertising that paints you as a hero of the working man and your opponent as a clown (or demon) who will single-handedly destroy the country is a key part of the package. Serious discourse has no place in such an environment.
On top of that, now you have the Internet to deal with. In this case, the more parrots you have mindlessly regurgitating your talking points on blogs and various forums, the better. It's like the hot chicks at the bar that invite you to hang out with them and offer you some expensive name brand liquor. It's viral advertising, and if it can be used to sell booze, why can't it be used to sell candidates?
Sure, the whole thing is sleazy, but that's politics for you.
How about if he wheels up to it and says "Have some of my boom shakalakalakalaka boom shakalakalakalaka boom shakalakalakalaka boom" and then fries it?
I'm telling you, we have potential Oscar gold here!
For the same reason that all mainstream video game consoles after the NES copied the NES's directional pad to some extent rather than using a table-top joystick.
Because they hate children and wanted them all to suffer constant thumb pain?
Nintendo Thumb is a serious and debilitating disorder. Please, won't someone think of the children?
Only a completely wild guess I'd say more than a minute and less than an hour.I
So probably not enough time to find the nearest woman and convince her you're a virgin and don't want to die that way. Unless it's closer to an hour, in which case I could probably pull that trick on two or three women.
it would be destroyed almost immediately due to Hawking radiation.
Awesome. I always knew Stephen Hawking was a badass, but now I find out he's a superhero with the power to destroy black holes!
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
I must admit, his disguise is ingenious. I never suspected he was anything other than a mild-mannered physicist.
To me, darkness and the "fog of war" effect point to laziness more than anything else. Sure, it's probably supposed to produce "atmosphere", but to me it just looks like they were too lazy to draw out the entire scene in detail. I enjoy FPS games, but the really dark areas drive me crazy. I want to see an immersive detailed world, not something I have to get right up next to and point a flashlight at before I can see how detailed it is.
Like a previous poster, I tend to crank up the brightness and contrast when encountered with games that artificially darken things. Those that use heavy fog to produce the same effect just piss me off. Some of the earlier games did this probably because the engine just wasn't capable of rendering that much stuff at once, but these days it's just lazy.
Chevy Nova in South America, No va meaning No go, but that could be truth in advertising.
Although that one is a well-traveled urban legend, I can say from experience that referring to the Chevy Nova as "no go" would indeed be truth in advertising.
A News Radio reference on Slashdot...awesome. One of the most underrated shows in recent memory.
Anyone who has ever used Babelfish to translate any random phrase from their own language to any other language and back again should know better than to trust a web-based translator to give anything other than a very rough idea of what any given piece of text actually says. To use them in place of an actual human translator for tasks like the one in the article (or rather, the picture) is madness.
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The Japanese are also at least a hundred years ahead of us in cartoon porn, particularly tentacle rape porn. This "tentacle gap", as I call it, cannot be allowed to continue.
To be fair he did get the extended warranty protection, and that shit ain't cheap.
I'm no expert, but as I recall the major problem with probes into the gas giants is that the immense pressure inside of them would crush anything we're capable of making, and electromagnetic interference from the constant storms would make it impossible to transmit any data out.
Plus, every time anyone mentions sending probes into Uranus over at NASA, nobody can stop giggling long enough to seriously work on the problem.
The Electric Universe theory contradicts Time Cube theory, and thus cannot be valid, as Time Cube theory encompasses everything.
Sigh...I know all that. I was hoping the war was big enough news that the sarcasm in my post would be obvious, but apparently not.
There are plenty of people trying to convert others in Austin. From what my kids tell me, most of them hang out in the public schools.
I don't know, dude. This is the Caucasus [wikipedia.org] we're talking about. Lots of Caucasians there.
Yah, but they're mostly self-loathing caucasians, as opposed to white supremacists.
I heard all this talk about a war between Russia and Georgia and got kind of anxious, but itturns out it's just a cyberwar. The media really should stop sensationalizing these things like that.
So basically the solution is to live close to an urban center. Unfortunately, housing is generally prohibitively expensive close to most urban centers (except for the ones that are so far gone with blight that there are no real jobs there anyway).
The American city (especially in the west) is built around personal automobiles. The affordable houses are well outside of walking or biking distance to most of the jobs, and are too chaotically arranged to allow for efficient mass transit.
Individual choice is part of the equation, but sane urban planning is also a big part of it. Cities and counties need to start doing more to encourage high density housing near urban centers and discourage the building of yet more suburbs and exurbs. Unfortunately, most local governments are too far in the pockets of developers to ever enforce strict zoning of that nature. Most of the new development I've seen near urban centers has also tended to be of the million-dollar-condo variety as well, which doesn't do a whole lot to solve the problem either.
It would probably be a lot easier to do your internship locally and then apply for a job in the US after you graduate.
Hell, if your ultimate goal is to work in the US, your best bet is probably to do your internship in India or China and then market yourself to US employers as an "outsourcing specialist".
Through politely worded mass mailings and TV commercials with catchy jingles shown during reruns of "Will & Grace" of course...how else would you expect a totalitarian regime to enforce anything?
Why is it, when there are more important issues, this ONE, probably a lesser issue, gets all the "controversy" air-time?
I, for one, would like to hear a little more coverage of how the Chinese got all of their 16 year old female gymnasts to all look between the ages of 8 and 12. We know they're all 16, though, because, according to the broadcast, their passports confirm it. What's the point of the new "16 and over" rule if the only way they check ages is by looking at government issued passports? Surely the government would have no reason to lie! Sort of like the East German women that were all drug-free in the '70s and '80s, despite the adams apples and mustaches.
The gymnastics events have always been sort of a joke as far as fairness is concerned, but the new incomprehensible scoring system and the apparently barely enforced 16 and over rule seems to have made things worse, not better.
I would order my forces to shoot into the crowd indiscriminately on principle.
Oh come on, that's your solution to everything.
Old and tired photoshop.
Come on man, you can do better than that.
Republicans do tend to just want to be left alone
Explain "social conservatives" then (aka the Republican base). Or is it that they want to be left alone, but they still want to control everyone else?
I think most of the people that truly just want to be left alone call themselves Libertarians these days.
I am so sick of "talking points." It just reeks of brand advertising.
Modern politics is all about brand advertising. Nobody really wants a serious discussion of the issues, least of all the candidates. You tell your base what they want to hear, you demonize your opponent in hopes of demoralizing his base, and you get your people to drive your supporters to the polls while trying to disenfranchise your opponent's supporters. If all else fails, you throw some ballot boxes into a river.
The whole idea is doing whatever is necessary to get more people to vote for you than for the other guy. Glitzy advertising that paints you as a hero of the working man and your opponent as a clown (or demon) who will single-handedly destroy the country is a key part of the package. Serious discourse has no place in such an environment.
On top of that, now you have the Internet to deal with. In this case, the more parrots you have mindlessly regurgitating your talking points on blogs and various forums, the better. It's like the hot chicks at the bar that invite you to hang out with them and offer you some expensive name brand liquor. It's viral advertising, and if it can be used to sell booze, why can't it be used to sell candidates?
Sure, the whole thing is sleazy, but that's politics for you.
How about if he wheels up to it and says "Have some of my boom shakalakalakalaka boom shakalakalakalaka boom shakalakalakalaka boom" and then fries it?
I'm telling you, we have potential Oscar gold here!
For the same reason that all mainstream video game consoles after the NES copied the NES's directional pad to some extent rather than using a table-top joystick.
Because they hate children and wanted them all to suffer constant thumb pain?
Nintendo Thumb is a serious and debilitating disorder. Please, won't someone think of the children?
Only a completely wild guess I'd say more than a minute and less than an hour.I
So probably not enough time to find the nearest woman and convince her you're a virgin and don't want to die that way. Unless it's closer to an hour, in which case I could probably pull that trick on two or three women.
it would be destroyed almost immediately due to Hawking radiation.
Awesome. I always knew Stephen Hawking was a badass, but now I find out he's a superhero with the power to destroy black holes!
I can see it now: thousands of people panic through the streets, while Stephen Hawking slowly wheels himself into a phone booth, only to fly out a second later and fly to the black hole, destroying it instantly with his Hawking radiation eye-beams! That's going to be sooo cool!
I must admit, his disguise is ingenious. I never suspected he was anything other than a mild-mannered physicist.
To me, darkness and the "fog of war" effect point to laziness more than anything else. Sure, it's probably supposed to produce "atmosphere", but to me it just looks like they were too lazy to draw out the entire scene in detail. I enjoy FPS games, but the really dark areas drive me crazy. I want to see an immersive detailed world, not something I have to get right up next to and point a flashlight at before I can see how detailed it is.
Like a previous poster, I tend to crank up the brightness and contrast when encountered with games that artificially darken things. Those that use heavy fog to produce the same effect just piss me off. Some of the earlier games did this probably because the engine just wasn't capable of rendering that much stuff at once, but these days it's just lazy.
A moderation that doesn't add anything to my karma in exchange for causing a major international incident? Sold!
Chevy Nova in South America, No va meaning No go, but that could be truth in advertising.
Although that one is a well-traveled urban legend, I can say from experience that referring to the Chevy Nova as "no go" would indeed be truth in advertising.
A News Radio reference on Slashdot...awesome. One of the most underrated shows in recent memory.
Anyone who has ever used Babelfish to translate any random phrase from their own language to any other language and back again should know better than to trust a web-based translator to give anything other than a very rough idea of what any given piece of text actually says. To use them in place of an actual human translator for tasks like the one in the article (or rather, the picture) is madness.
No, AOL killed the Internet.