I'm not sure a robot would evaluate a gun as a threat if it is in a dormant state. There are also situations where taking a weapon away from a human would be in direct violation of rule 1.
I have to disagree with you a bit on the ability for humans to defend themselves against robots of this type. Building a robot that could deal with stairs, leaps across large gaps, and still be able to maintain pursuit speeds would probably be weak against simple things like judo.
Airborne robots would probably run out of steam after they exhausted their disabling payloads.
Track using robots aren't very good at detaining a human, but they excel at recon.
The human form allows us to overcome these limitations by adapting and utilizing our other abilities to compensate, robots on the other hand are shit for improvisation. So we attempt to overcome that limitation at design time. The problem is, when humans design a way to deal with a shortcoming it comes with the creation of an inherent weakness.
Our greatest advantage over these sort of machines is that humans cannot develop anything that has no limitation.
A firearms greatest strength also becomes its greatest weakness, its binary - and dependent upon the skill of the user. Our attempts to overcome the limitations of the user only further reduce the situations where such a device can be used. Guns get specialized but less adaptable.
A tool developed for non-lethal crowd control would quickly become unusable in a non lethal manner once it could cope with all contingencies.
I fucking HATE gear grinds for end game content. I am notorious for soloing and not joining guilds because games shouldn't be scheduled work. I quit EQ early on because of it, I never saw endgame in WoW because of it, and well SWG just sucked. That having been said, I really enjoy the public quests, Scenario, and open RvR elements of WAR.
I always shied away from PvP because it was always seemed a gear and lvl based system trying to placate people who wanted large scale combat. I have to say that so far in WAR even a casual player can enjoy RvR.
The scenarios level balance when you enter them. Now, you don't get new abilities that you don't have - but you can at least compete. The higher levels of a tier do seem to have an easier time of it, but crappy tactics can't be made up for with l33t g34r.
The public quests sometimes suck when there aren't enough people to overcome the second and third stages, but they reset after a short time (read minutes) and you can play the low events over and over again for the point rewards.
The open RvR areas are really boss. Just running out to an area and fighting others is an awesome visceral experience. There is no corpse runs, so getting back into the game is simple. There is a brief "death debuff", but that is easily dealt with by paying a healer to remove when you respawn. BTW, you respawn right next to a healer.
Why would anyone expect Sony to allow their bandwidth to be re-used for free?
Because a direct competitor (XBOX 360) allows me to download multiple times for anything I purchased. In fact, I have bought things, deleted them, and then when surfing the XBOX Live area and looking at those games it asks me if I want to download them AGAIN.
We take potshots a JBTs, not cops. Law enforcement, not CRIME PREVENTION as so many think the police are tasked with, is the fulcrum which civil disobedience gains its leverage from. If a LAW is unjust, the people revolt against the LAW - and agents acting on ENFORCING that law. The entities ABIDING by that law are dealt with through other methods such as boycott.
The Revolution was started when a bunch of cops shot at tax protesters in Boston.
The revolution was started when BRITISH SOLDIERS, not cops, shot at tax protesters in Boston. If you knew anything about geopolitics during the time period, you would know that colonies had many special powers regarding laws and governorship. These powers, and their subsequent dissolving, were the main causes of the revolution.
God, I hear you mealy-mouthed equivocators whining and lawyering away your Liberty, the Liberty that my family has spent blood across generations protecting. You're undeserving of it.
This mentality is the EXACT reason we have a Constitution. You want to talk about your family's service as if it were a rite of passage that allows you to make decisions on the freedom of others - well it doesn't. There are a limited number of reasons one enters the Service:
DUTY - You entered the service to protect this Nation and its LAWS. The Constitution is the base of all of its laws. You fundamentally believe in the rule of law and this Nations laws. If the laws so dictate an action can be taken, you are protecting that action.
DRAFT - You have been compelled into service by your Nation to act as an agent of force. You may not believe in the actions being taken by your Government to the point where you choose to serve, but you do not avoid it. Reasons for not avoiding service vary.
SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT - You are either trying to utilize the G.I. Bill or feel this is the only path to personal success you have. You are willing to trade service to your Nation for financial backing regarding your extended education, the introduction to a trade craft, or as a means to support yourself outside of the free market.
CITIZENSHIP - You are willing to serve our Nation as PROOF that you want to be a Citizen, granting you all Rights PROTECTED by the Constitution.
LEGAL - You have been forced to make a social decision regarding Jail vs. Military Service. Personally I think this is a bullshit classification derived from the movies.
I'm willing to hear any other reasons why you, and your family, entered the service - but I'm pretty sure this covers it. That having been said, none of those reasons give you any weight when it comes to determining how anyone chooses to exercise their rights.
We speak our minds. We don't like censorship, not in any way, shape or form.
Actually, many people in this Nation DO want censorship. I guess we should just shut them up or shout them down, cause that's not censorship.
We're honorable. We don't torture prisoners. We don't outsource torture. We don't play word games about whether or not waterboarding is torture.
Actually we do all of this, so does every industrialized nation on Earth. IT ISN'T RIGHT, but it exists. Your whole opinion on this issue is anchored in an ideal WE ARE TRYING TO GET BACK TO.
We don't search your stuff until we've got damn good reason to think we're gonna find a dead body when we do.
Bullshit. There are many reasons the Police might search you that I don't agree with but that KEEP THEM ALIVE. Focus on the ABUSE, not the existence.
What the Hell is wrong with you simpering, spineless, Stockhom-Syndrome, cellmate bitches? It pisses me off to no end to think that the time I spent on base was spent to protect the likes of you.
Go fuck yourself. You signed on to protect ALL OF US. You're entitled to your opinion, but don't expect any of us to recognize it as enlightened. You got paid to do it.
The Bill of Rights only lays out what the Government can't do. Exercising powers granted through property rights isn't censorship. No speech was even squelched here. A specific term has been labeled by a filter. The service can be discussed, it can even be linked to through other means - you just can't use "bugmenot.com".
I'm sure you have no problem with this type of thing for your spam filter.
It isn't clicks on the little ads. It's looking at the content of pages and matching it to the weblogs. The models created from that data are very real and very effective.
You can call it hilarious, but there is a huge difference between sales and marketing.
it's right under the search bar on their main page
I understand that there is a difference between releasing an OS and having a browser set as default and adding a link on your main page to your browser, but at which point can we start discussing that this is in the same ballpark.
Google has a serious hold on the search market, just as Microsoft has a serious hold on the OS market (which its losing). Isn't putting a link to your browser on your main search page just a little bit in that gray "leveraging" area?
PhDs can be rented for 4 dollars an hour because the countries that those workers live in invested a ton of money to make inexpensive specialized education a reality.
There is a reason that Bangalore is getting a lot of cash now.
I don't hate the game - it does look kinda pretty and chainsawing aliens is cool for about 2 minutes, but it never really motivated me to keep playing. I could never get past the "tutorial" level.
My brother loves it, his friends love it - and I say good for them.
Yet, if I am being honest, GoW doesn't do shit for me. I can't exactly nail down what it is either. From a marketing perspective it has everything I like viscerally: Explosions, weapons, swearing, gristly death - but its just damn boring.
If I were to equate it to something old school I would compare it to Kangaroo. Technically all aspects are there, but it just lacks soul.
Actually, I work for my Father (my parents are divorced). He owns a Publishing company, who itself owns seven Newspapers.
Trust me when I say I do pretty well for myself.
However, I still do not WASTE money on garbage, as a lot of people who make a lot less do.
You can make fun of the fact that I live at home all you want, it doesn't change the fact that I pocket more cash than most people I know who make more than I do.
I simply didn't see the need to tie myself up with a house/apartment rent BILL when I didn't have too.
It has been my experience that the people who bitch most about bills are the ones who INCUR the most Bills.
You cut off luxuries (yes, they are luxuries, not necessities) of Cable/Satellite, DSL/Cable and then come talk to me about how much of a burden taxes are.
SO, your defense for being called out is to define yourself as a rich kid living at home.
Sorry man, you fail.
Maybe if you realized you were pushing your responsibilities off to your Dad you would get it. Yeah sure , YOU'RE not paying for the stuff you say other people waste their money on - your Daddy is.
Bragging that you're pocketing more cash than people who choose not to suck off their parents longer than they have to isn't really that impressive. You seem to have a lot to say about how well you are doing and how we should all follow your lead. The reality is your lead is actually copping out and pushing those responsibilities off to another person.
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This is why I have many guns.
I'm not sure a robot would evaluate a gun as a threat if it is in a dormant state. There are also situations where taking a weapon away from a human would be in direct violation of rule 1.
I have to disagree with you a bit on the ability for humans to defend themselves against robots of this type. Building a robot that could deal with stairs, leaps across large gaps, and still be able to maintain pursuit speeds would probably be weak against simple things like judo.
Airborne robots would probably run out of steam after they exhausted their disabling payloads.
Track using robots aren't very good at detaining a human, but they excel at recon.
The human form allows us to overcome these limitations by adapting and utilizing our other abilities to compensate, robots on the other hand are shit for improvisation. So we attempt to overcome that limitation at design time. The problem is, when humans design a way to deal with a shortcoming it comes with the creation of an inherent weakness.
Our greatest advantage over these sort of machines is that humans cannot develop anything that has no limitation.
A firearms greatest strength also becomes its greatest weakness, its binary - and dependent upon the skill of the user. Our attempts to overcome the limitations of the user only further reduce the situations where such a device can be used. Guns get specialized but less adaptable.
A tool developed for non-lethal crowd control would quickly become unusable in a non lethal manner once it could cope with all contingencies.
That thing is susceptible to the oldest traps on the planet, hole covered by leaves and counter weighted net covered by leaves.
Nifty yeah, but not very scary.
You never lived in Miami I take it.
Was Joshua a "terrorist" or a "Shock and Awe" guy?
I mean, any way you slice it he was scary.
I played EQ, WoW, and beta tested SWG.
I have to say, I am most pleased with this game.
I fucking HATE gear grinds for end game content. I am notorious for soloing and not joining guilds because games shouldn't be scheduled work. I quit EQ early on because of it, I never saw endgame in WoW because of it, and well SWG just sucked. That having been said, I really enjoy the public quests, Scenario, and open RvR elements of WAR.
I always shied away from PvP because it was always seemed a gear and lvl based system trying to placate people who wanted large scale combat. I have to say that so far in WAR even a casual player can enjoy RvR.
The scenarios level balance when you enter them. Now, you don't get new abilities that you don't have - but you can at least compete. The higher levels of a tier do seem to have an easier time of it, but crappy tactics can't be made up for with l33t g34r.
The public quests sometimes suck when there aren't enough people to overcome the second and third stages, but they reset after a short time (read minutes) and you can play the low events over and over again for the point rewards.
The open RvR areas are really boss. Just running out to an area and fighting others is an awesome visceral experience. There is no corpse runs, so getting back into the game is simple. There is a brief "death debuff", but that is easily dealt with by paying a healer to remove when you respawn. BTW, you respawn right next to a healer.
Why would anyone expect Sony to allow their bandwidth to be re-used for free?
Because a direct competitor (XBOX 360) allows me to download multiple times for anything I purchased. In fact, I have bought things, deleted them, and then when surfing the XBOX Live area and looking at those games it asks me if I want to download them AGAIN.
No, but he as much a symbol of Microsoft as their Windows name and logo are.
Nobody thinks "Bill Gates, hrrmmm, I want Pizza!"
Your ignorance astounds me.
We take potshots at the cops as they retreat.
We take potshots a JBTs, not cops. Law enforcement, not CRIME PREVENTION as so many think the police are tasked with, is the fulcrum which civil disobedience gains its leverage from. If a LAW is unjust, the people revolt against the LAW - and agents acting on ENFORCING that law. The entities ABIDING by that law are dealt with through other methods such as boycott.
The Revolution was started when a bunch of cops shot at tax protesters in Boston.
The revolution was started when BRITISH SOLDIERS, not cops, shot at tax protesters in Boston. If you knew anything about geopolitics during the time period, you would know that colonies had many special powers regarding laws and governorship. These powers, and their subsequent dissolving, were the main causes of the revolution.
God, I hear you mealy-mouthed equivocators whining and lawyering away your Liberty, the Liberty that my family has spent blood across generations protecting. You're undeserving of it.
This mentality is the EXACT reason we have a Constitution. You want to talk about your family's service as if it were a rite of passage that allows you to make decisions on the freedom of others - well it doesn't. There are a limited number of reasons one enters the Service:
I'm willing to hear any other reasons why you, and your family, entered the service - but I'm pretty sure this covers it. That having been said, none of those reasons give you any weight when it comes to determining how anyone chooses to exercise their rights.
We speak our minds. We don't like censorship, not in any way, shape or form.
Actually, many people in this Nation DO want censorship. I guess we should just shut them up or shout them down, cause that's not censorship.
We're honorable. We don't torture prisoners. We don't outsource torture. We don't play word games about whether or not waterboarding is torture.
Actually we do all of this, so does every industrialized nation on Earth. IT ISN'T RIGHT, but it exists. Your whole opinion on this issue is anchored in an ideal WE ARE TRYING TO GET BACK TO.
We don't search your stuff until we've got damn good reason to think we're gonna find a dead body when we do.
Bullshit. There are many reasons the Police might search you that I don't agree with but that KEEP THEM ALIVE. Focus on the ABUSE, not the existence.
What the Hell is wrong with you simpering, spineless, Stockhom-Syndrome, cellmate bitches? It pisses me off to no end to think that the time I spent on base was spent to protect the likes of you.
Go fuck yourself. You signed on to protect ALL OF US. You're entitled to your opinion, but don't expect any of us to recognize it as enlightened. You got paid to do it.
Wow, did you fail Civics or what?
The Bill of Rights only lays out what the Government can't do. Exercising powers granted through property rights isn't censorship. No speech was even squelched here. A specific term has been labeled by a filter. The service can be discussed, it can even be linked to through other means - you just can't use "bugmenot.com".
I'm sure you have no problem with this type of thing for your spam filter.
It isn't clicks on the little ads. It's looking at the content of pages and matching it to the weblogs. The models created from that data are very real and very effective.
You can call it hilarious, but there is a huge difference between sales and marketing.
If you think Facebook makes it's money by advertising you are out of your mind.
Consumer data models and trends anyone?
Uhhhh, the 1st only applies to what the US Government can't do, not to what a private company can do with it's free service.
With that, I hope you were being sarcastic.
Firefox, Opera and Safari use Google as default search engine and don't include MSN Search as an option.
it's right under the search bar on their main page
I understand that there is a difference between releasing an OS and having a browser set as default and adding a link on your main page to your browser, but at which point can we start discussing that this is in the same ballpark.
Google has a serious hold on the search market, just as Microsoft has a serious hold on the OS market (which its losing). Isn't putting a link to your browser on your main search page just a little bit in that gray "leveraging" area?
PhDs can be rented for 4 dollars an hour because the countries that those workers live in invested a ton of money to make inexpensive specialized education a reality.
There is a reason that Bangalore is getting a lot of cash now.
You're not the only one.
I don't hate the game - it does look kinda pretty and chainsawing aliens is cool for about 2 minutes, but it never really motivated me to keep playing. I could never get past the "tutorial" level.
My brother loves it, his friends love it - and I say good for them.
Yet, if I am being honest, GoW doesn't do shit for me. I can't exactly nail down what it is either. From a marketing perspective it has everything I like viscerally: Explosions, weapons, swearing, gristly death - but its just damn boring.
If I were to equate it to something old school I would compare it to Kangaroo. Technically all aspects are there, but it just lacks soul.
Willing != Enthusiastic
Wow, the old "I can do immoral things to people I think are immoral" trick.
LOGIC FAIL.
I think that's supposed to be Racing v2.0 or someshit.
They coulda called it eRacing.
All the dead ones.
Actually, I work for my Father (my parents are divorced). He owns a Publishing company, who itself owns seven Newspapers.
Trust me when I say I do pretty well for myself.
However, I still do not WASTE money on garbage, as a lot of people who make a lot less do.
You can make fun of the fact that I live at home all you want, it doesn't change the fact that I pocket more cash than most people I know who make more than I do.
I simply didn't see the need to tie myself up with a house/apartment rent BILL when I didn't have too.
It has been my experience that the people who bitch most about bills are the ones who INCUR the most Bills.
You cut off luxuries (yes, they are luxuries, not necessities) of Cable/Satellite, DSL/Cable and then come talk to me about how much of a burden taxes are.
SO, your defense for being called out is to define yourself as a rich kid living at home.
Sorry man, you fail.
Maybe if you realized you were pushing your responsibilities off to your Dad you would get it. Yeah sure , YOU'RE not paying for the stuff you say other people waste their money on - your Daddy is.
Bragging that you're pocketing more cash than people who choose not to suck off their parents longer than they have to isn't really that impressive. You seem to have a lot to say about how well you are doing and how we should all follow your lead. The reality is your lead is actually copping out and pushing those responsibilities off to another person.
Yeah, that's enlightened.
Yeah see - I'm taking personal responsibility now and saving now.