for b: the cost of decommissioning and cleanup have never been counted for when building a coal plant. While those costs have always been considered for nuclear plants. That is one of the reasons coal is perceived as cheaper.
a: its not a miracle cure, buts more than just a few steps in the right direction. The US has one of the largest supplies of uranium, both mined and in the ground. With the more efficient feeder-breeder reactors, it can meet our needs for hundreds of years and that is if it was our only energy source.
A strong mix of feeder-breeder nuclear reactors and efficient solar thermal plants, we would be well on our way to complete energy independence with very low pollution for the forseeable future.
Did you know that water vapor is many times more effective as a greenhouse gas that CO2? You know what that endangers? Polar Bears, the other silent killer.
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If you don't want national defense and roads, then stop fucking using them. If you live in America, you are using the roads and national defense. Just like with corporations, you don't have to pay if really do not want to. You just have to stop using the services provided. So get out of the god damn country.
No one releases bug free closed source software either. And that was at least part of my point, that there is an MTTF advantage. I wouldn't say its the only advantage though. A closed source software provider could choose to ignore the flaw and you will never get a fix, while in an OS project, if the provider doesn't fix it quickly, you or someone else has the option to fork and correct it.
I actually didn't claim any individual could audit the entire distro.
One expert could, with a few years of effort, could do so for the smallest distro's (those that can fit on a single floppy).
Your second paragraph I do agree with. There are probably not enough people testing for issues and auditing code in linux to keep "every" long standing flaw like this from going undetected for years. So get out there and audit some code!;)
Like I said, rule one is that the DM can to change the rules. It all sounds OK to me, even your original interpretation is fine if that is what you want in your game.
I just find it irritating when someone insists their house rule is in the book, both from players and DMs. There are of course exceptions where rules in the book conflict with each other which results in a quantum superposition of rule eigenstates and changes the above rule from "can change the rules" to "should change the rules, or at least pick which one to ignore".
Um? what? the "bits" of an OS/CPU don't have much to do with "power". Most people still have less than 4 gigs of memory. And since the "bits" are the width of the memory address bus , they don't have a physical need for more than 32bit support in their OS.
The same thing "could" happen in the Linux kernel, true. But that does not mean it "isn't safer" to use linux over windows.
You will never be able to review the source code of your windows OS. You "can" do so in linux. For a sufficiently small linux distro, you could inspect the code yourself. There used to be linux distro's that fit on a single 1.44 mb floppy, I have had a hard time finding them now, smallest I can find recently is about 2mb. If you are an expert, thats small enough to review in a couple years. In a modern distro, it would be impossible for an individual to vet the entire code base, it would not be impossible for an organized, determined group of a few thousand experts to do so. I believe that the NSA does just this with selinux, or at least thats the claim.
The point I am making is that under the open development model, every change to the code is reviewed and inspected by several different people before it is included, this may not happen in a closed environment. Even after a change is approved, implemented and distributed, the availability of the source to everyone makes it more likely that such flaws are noted soon and then fixed quickly.
That is the basic rule for damage "TO" falling creatures/objects. There is a different rule for damage "FROM" falling objects (at least in 3.0 and 3.5, not sure about Pathfinder yet). The rule for damage "FROM" falling objects is 1d6 per 10ft fallen to a maximum of 20d6. And an additional 1d6 per 200 lbs of the falling object (definition of the 20 dice limit is in the sentence about distance falling. The following sentence defines the damage from weight and contains no such limit). Its about literal reading of the rules as written without imbuing your own interpretations based on things like logic or game balance. Rules lawyery at its finest.
Of course the first rule is that its ok for the DM to change the rules. I just happen to insist that the DM admit that it is in fact a change.
Bah. I'll just use shape change to turn into a 200ft ball of lead and deal falling object damage, dealing 1.6 million d6 in damage in a 100ft radius. The troll will die of old age before he manages to regenerate, and just in case someone decides to come along in the next few years, I'll strangle the goo that is left, causing asphyxiation in 3 rounds.
You don't like 4e? There are alternatives you know? D20 Open Gaming Licence forever. Pathfinder is an OGL D&D 3.5 extension by Paizo publishing. Its good stuff.
Janitors don't just mop the floors and clean the toilets. Janitors also serve as maintenance staff at most companies of reasonable size. Good luck being productive at work when there isn't a toilet in the building that flushes, half the doors are stuck and the "air conditioning" blows 102 degree air all summer long.
So if in game currency is now legal currency... Does that mean that a game company can generate billions of dollars of cash and exchange it for the real thing?
and yet, when you torrent, there is a limited bandwidth that you can share at any given point in time. If you "share" a 10 SizeUnit file to 10 people, all at once on a connection with bandwidth of 1 SizeUnit/Hour, it takes those 10 people 100 hours for each of them to get the file. If you shared it sequentially, one one person would have to wait 100 hours, in fact on average it only takes them 55 hours to get the file.
A library has one unit of bandwidth per item to share. Whereas internet file-sharing has a bandwidth limited to the size of your tube. The more you have to share, the smaller percentage of it can be shared at any one time unlike the growth rate of the library system.
Maths. You are doing them wrong. The point of light will not travel 1 light year in one second. It will travel Pi light years in one second as it traces out a half circle with a radius of one light year. If you meant to indicate the linear difference, that is also wrong, it would have been 2 light years.
and java isn't slow. It currently runs about 2-3 times slower than c++ for nearly all applications, 2-3 times faster than.net CLR and about 10-20 times faster than scripting languages. In some case, though admittedly rare, java exceeds the performance of c++.
I can answer that one for you. The 3rd. But only because the FBI are not considered soldiers. They have in fact occupied property without the consent of the owners.
You must have a crappy bike, or poor health. On a good bike, with a lot of practice you can average 30 or 35 mph over a long distance. For short bursts you can get in the 40s, sometimes even the high 40s.
Castle doctrine only applies inside your home and vehicle. Unless your bicycle is enclosed, it may be illegal to carry/wield a gun in your defense.
I lived in mississippi, and it is pretty much the same way. Fortunately drunk rednecks throwing bottles don't realize a bike can do nearly 50mph if you get pissed off enough. I managed to catch up with one of them and punch him in the face.
If it can throw enough power to support a decent sized LCD (You can run a 4 inch LCD or probably a medium sized OLED display on the 5v of a USB hub), it would be golden.
I quite like the idea of a monitor with a built in usb hub that has only one wire leading to the pc. No extra power cables to run, you can plug your mouse, keyboard, webcam and thumbdrive in to the monitor without all that wire clutter and having to bend over and move stuff out of the way to reach the box.
The thing is, until very recently, political violence was the only effective way to change an entrenched government. The only case I can think about off the top of my head was the teetotaler's who had alcohol banned. Not even the civil rights reform was completely without the threat and use of violence by the oppressed.
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That was the whole idea behind copyright back when it lasted 20 years or less.
You can. Go to your favorite bands next concert.
for b: the cost of decommissioning and cleanup have never been counted for when building a coal plant. While those costs have always been considered for nuclear plants. That is one of the reasons coal is perceived as cheaper.
a: its not a miracle cure, buts more than just a few steps in the right direction. The US has one of the largest supplies of uranium, both mined and in the ground. With the more efficient feeder-breeder reactors, it can meet our needs for hundreds of years and that is if it was our only energy source.
A strong mix of feeder-breeder nuclear reactors and efficient solar thermal plants, we would be well on our way to complete energy independence with very low pollution for the forseeable future.
Did you know that water vapor is many times more effective as a greenhouse gas that CO2? You know what that endangers? Polar Bears, the other silent killer.
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Hold on there, I for one do want to be next to a nuclear power plant.
If you don't want national defense and roads, then stop fucking using them. If you live in America, you are using the roads and national defense. Just like with corporations, you don't have to pay if really do not want to. You just have to stop using the services provided. So get out of the god damn country.
No one releases bug free closed source software either. And that was at least part of my point, that there is an MTTF advantage. I wouldn't say its the only advantage though. A closed source software provider could choose to ignore the flaw and you will never get a fix, while in an OS project, if the provider doesn't fix it quickly, you or someone else has the option to fork and correct it.
I actually didn't claim any individual could audit the entire distro.
One expert could, with a few years of effort, could do so for the smallest distro's (those that can fit on a single floppy).
Your second paragraph I do agree with. There are probably not enough people testing for issues and auditing code in linux to keep "every" long standing flaw like this from going undetected for years. So get out there and audit some code! ;)
Like I said, rule one is that the DM can to change the rules. It all sounds OK to me, even your original interpretation is fine if that is what you want in your game.
I just find it irritating when someone insists their house rule is in the book, both from players and DMs. There are of course exceptions where rules in the book conflict with each other which results in a quantum superposition of rule eigenstates and changes the above rule from "can change the rules" to "should change the rules, or at least pick which one to ignore".
Um? what? the "bits" of an OS/CPU don't have much to do with "power". Most people still have less than 4 gigs of memory. And since the "bits" are the width of the memory address bus , they don't have a physical need for more than 32bit support in their OS.
The same thing "could" happen in the Linux kernel, true. But that does not mean it "isn't safer" to use linux over windows.
You will never be able to review the source code of your windows OS. You "can" do so in linux. For a sufficiently small linux distro, you could inspect the code yourself. There used to be linux distro's that fit on a single 1.44 mb floppy, I have had a hard time finding them now, smallest I can find recently is about 2mb. If you are an expert, thats small enough to review in a couple years. In a modern distro, it would be impossible for an individual to vet the entire code base, it would not be impossible for an organized, determined group of a few thousand experts to do so. I believe that the NSA does just this with selinux, or at least thats the claim.
The point I am making is that under the open development model, every change to the code is reviewed and inspected by several different people before it is included, this may not happen in a closed environment. Even after a change is approved, implemented and distributed, the availability of the source to everyone makes it more likely that such flaws are noted soon and then fixed quickly.
That is the basic rule for damage "TO" falling creatures/objects. There is a different rule for damage "FROM" falling objects (at least in 3.0 and 3.5, not sure about Pathfinder yet). The rule for damage "FROM" falling objects is 1d6 per 10ft fallen to a maximum of 20d6. And an additional 1d6 per 200 lbs of the falling object (definition of the 20 dice limit is in the sentence about distance falling. The following sentence defines the damage from weight and contains no such limit). Its about literal reading of the rules as written without imbuing your own interpretations based on things like logic or game balance. Rules lawyery at its finest.
Of course the first rule is that its ok for the DM to change the rules. I just happen to insist that the DM admit that it is in fact a change.
Bah. I'll just use shape change to turn into a 200ft ball of lead and deal falling object damage, dealing 1.6 million d6 in damage in a 100ft radius. The troll will die of old age before he manages to regenerate, and just in case someone decides to come along in the next few years, I'll strangle the goo that is left, causing asphyxiation in 3 rounds.
You don't like 4e? There are alternatives you know? D20 Open Gaming Licence forever. Pathfinder is an OGL D&D 3.5 extension by Paizo publishing. Its good stuff.
Shortly thereafter it was demonstrated that right-doers could use some privacy as well.
Janitors don't just mop the floors and clean the toilets. Janitors also serve as maintenance staff at most companies of reasonable size. Good luck being productive at work when there isn't a toilet in the building that flushes, half the doors are stuck and the "air conditioning" blows 102 degree air all summer long.
So if in game currency is now legal currency... Does that mean that a game company can generate billions of dollars of cash and exchange it for the real thing?
and yet, when you torrent, there is a limited bandwidth that you can share at any given point in time. If you "share" a 10 SizeUnit file to 10 people, all at once on a connection with bandwidth of 1 SizeUnit/Hour, it takes those 10 people 100 hours for each of them to get the file. If you shared it sequentially, one one person would have to wait 100 hours, in fact on average it only takes them 55 hours to get the file.
A library has one unit of bandwidth per item to share. Whereas internet file-sharing has a bandwidth limited to the size of your tube. The more you have to share, the smaller percentage of it can be shared at any one time unlike the growth rate of the library system.
Maths. You are doing them wrong. The point of light will not travel 1 light year in one second. It will travel Pi light years in one second as it traces out a half circle with a radius of one light year. If you meant to indicate the linear difference, that is also wrong, it would have been 2 light years.
I know what you mean, I was trying to figure out what a Buytaert was and how you can dry one with CMS software.
and java isn't slow. It currently runs about 2-3 times slower than c++ for nearly all applications, 2-3 times faster than .net CLR and about 10-20 times faster than scripting languages. In some case, though admittedly rare, java exceeds the performance of c++.
I can answer that one for you. The 3rd. But only because the FBI are not considered soldiers. They have in fact occupied property without the consent of the owners.
You must have a crappy bike, or poor health. On a good bike, with a lot of practice you can average 30 or 35 mph over a long distance. For short bursts you can get in the 40s, sometimes even the high 40s.
Castle doctrine only applies inside your home and vehicle. Unless your bicycle is enclosed, it may be illegal to carry/wield a gun in your defense.
I lived in mississippi, and it is pretty much the same way. Fortunately drunk rednecks throwing bottles don't realize a bike can do nearly 50mph if you get pissed off enough. I managed to catch up with one of them and punch him in the face.
If it can throw enough power to support a decent sized LCD (You can run a 4 inch LCD or probably a medium sized OLED display on the 5v of a USB hub), it would be golden.
I quite like the idea of a monitor with a built in usb hub that has only one wire leading to the pc. No extra power cables to run, you can plug your mouse, keyboard, webcam and thumbdrive in to the monitor without all that wire clutter and having to bend over and move stuff out of the way to reach the box.
The thing is, until very recently, political violence was the only effective way to change an entrenched government. The only case I can think about off the top of my head was the teetotaler's who had alcohol banned. Not even the civil rights reform was completely without the threat and use of violence by the oppressed.