Funny that you included the link to what I'm assuming is the official Corp. of the Seven Wardens site on the Iron Ring. So much for the "you won't find a listing of us, there is no web page for us - we're a private organization" part of the spew that they do during the Calling.
However, it's past my time to argue which school's Engineering is more world-ruling - after all, I'm gradumutated and all.
In that case, the victor has not strategized effectively. As I mentioned in an earlier post, "Intimidating the enemy into submission without fighting is the highest level of strategy." If you are unable to show them that it would be futile to try again, then you haven't really won, have you?
By the way, I found a page containing a translated version of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Enjoy.
When your mobile artillery piece relies on one technology to pick up the flashes of fire from your opponent's
gun, and GPS to say "I know I'm here. I know the enemy's gun is there. If I point my gun in this direction and
fire now, the enemy's gun goes bye-bye before he gets a second shot at me", you can win the war with a
fraction of the manpower (and firepower) you used to need.
This is a prime example of: If you know yourself,
And you know your enemy,
Then if you fight 100 battles,
You will win 100 battles.
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Actually, the point of war is to put your enemy in a position such that they say "uncle", yet causing the least amount of casualties.
I think it's in Sun Tzu's The Art of War - the best wars are the ones that are not fought. Intimidating the enemy into submission without fighting is the highest level of strategy. If there is to be fighting, a battle that is quickly and efficiently fought is better than one that is drawn out. The worst kind of war (according to TAW is one that is long and causes many deaths.
Even with a surface temperature of 870 degrees Fahrenheit and an atmospheric pressure of 90 atm, life might possibly have existed if there was water.
Who says that life has to use water and oxygen for metabolism? I wouldn't be surprised if there were lifeforms found that used other materials for existence, such as carbon dioxide, methane, sulphuric acid, etc.
Just because humans can't use it doesn't mean that there aren't other lifeforms that can.
This kinda technology has been in use for over a year in Moncton, New Brunswick
Piffle. Vancouver, BC (also in Canada) has had it available for more than 4 years now.
You know what I think would really kick ass is if we picked up signals, thinking that they were transmitted by aliens...when in fact, they were just our own signals transmitted by either space junk long decommissioned, or our our signals rebounded back to us by some dead space object.
Cable descramlers, for instance; if a cable signal is flowing from a wire into my home, where I own the wire, don't I own the signal coming into my home, and therefore should have the right to descrable it if I please?
Actually, isn't the signal owned by the cable company, and the fact that it comes into your house the result of you subscribing to it (and hence the contents are protected by copyright law)?
Nah, personally, I'd go for returning the envelope/reply card properly filled out, but with someone else's details. For example, if there was someone in my office that pissed me off regularly, they'd start getting junk mail as a result of my reply.
Makes for a pissed off fellow employee (revenge, sweet revenge), and one fewer customer for the offending company (two if you count me).
It's the same thing we always go through with environmentalists. There's no reason to be afraid of using natural resources. If we always hold off, afraid that we might damage something, we'll never get anything done.
That's actually one of my biggest beefs with environmentalists. The way they'd have us run the world would be to send us back into the Stone Ages. Forget fire, we'll eat raw lion meat - assuming the lions don't eat us for dinner first.
If the environmentalists were practicing what they preached, they wouldn't eat, since killing animals is wrong, and eating vegetation would affect CO2 levels; they wouldn't drink water, since it would cause them to urinate, polluting water sources all around; they wouldn't breathe, since they'd be spewing forth CO2; in fact, they couldn't die either, since decomposition releases all the baddies that have been stored in their bodies. They should just jettison their cold, dead bodies into space - oh wait, they can't because they'd have to burn fuel, and they'd be leaving junk in space.
Fools, the lot of them. Environmentalism is a contradiction within itself.
I believe that that defence was actually used in Canada as a defence against a murder charge. Sucessfully. There was some serious question as to whether or not it would apply to a drunk driving charge.
If I remember correctly, I believe it was attempted as a defense in a rape case, and the defendant was successfully acquitted - although the women's (or is that womyn's?) rights groups started a hissing fit, and it got legislated out.
You put all your eggs on natural gas which is now drying up and prices skyrocketing, you're freezing your asses off and whining about power shortages, high prices, and rolling bloackouts.
Funny, that...it used to be that whenever a new oil well was tapped, they'd burn off the natural gas.
Be careful that the switch on the charger is *below* the battery, because the frothy bubbling is lighter-than-air and extremely flammable hydrogen. Do not smoke near the battery.
"Hey, Joe, got a light?"
"Yeah, Bob, just a sec...I need to light up my smoke first..."
Ka-BOOOOOOOOOOOM
And I've seen an engineer lose a finger because the iron pinky ring that engineers wear got shorted across a car battery.
The outlets on the battery must have been pretty close together for the Iron Ring to short it out. The largest Iron Ring I ever saw belonged to a guy that had a pinky roughly the size of my thumb, and that's still not quite an inch across.
Hehehehe, I bet all votes will automatically change to Bill Gates for president.
Heh, I remember a mini-app that someone sent to a few friends of mine - if you ran it, it would bring up a error dialog box that said something to the effect of: Windows has detected that your penis size is too small. Is this true? [Yes] [No]
Every time the pointer came close to "No", the button would move to the other side of "Yes". Whoever ran the app would have to pick "Yes" to get it to quit.
If anyone knows the exact wording of that joke app's dialog, I'd appreciate it if you could post it.
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However, it's past my time to argue which school's Engineering is more world-ruling - after all, I'm gradumutated and all.
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ERTW, Baby!
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By the way, I found a page containing a translated version of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Enjoy.
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This is a prime example of:
If you know yourself,
And you know your enemy,
Then if you fight 100 battles,
You will win 100 battles.
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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I think it's in Sun Tzu's The Art of War - the best wars are the ones that are not fought. Intimidating the enemy into submission without fighting is the highest level of strategy. If there is to be fighting, a battle that is quickly and efficiently fought is better than one that is drawn out. The worst kind of war (according to TAW is one that is long and causes many deaths.
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Who says that life has to use water and oxygen for metabolism? I wouldn't be surprised if there were lifeforms found that used other materials for existence, such as carbon dioxide, methane, sulphuric acid, etc.
Just because humans can't use it doesn't mean that there aren't other lifeforms that can.
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I stand corrected.
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Take off, eh?
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This link to Novus Telecom can be used as evidence.
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You know what I think would really kick ass is if we picked up signals, thinking that they were transmitted by aliens...when in fact, they were just our own signals transmitted by either space junk long decommissioned, or our our signals rebounded back to us by some dead space object.
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Actually, isn't the signal owned by the cable company, and the fact that it comes into your house the result of you subscribing to it (and hence the contents are protected by copyright law)?
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Makes for a pissed off fellow employee (revenge, sweet revenge), and one fewer customer for the offending company (two if you count me).
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And I am ignorant how?
Educate yourself before spewing all over yourself.
Bite me.
Oh yeah, my original post was not meant as flamebait.
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That's actually one of my biggest beefs with environmentalists. The way they'd have us run the world would be to send us back into the Stone Ages. Forget fire, we'll eat raw lion meat - assuming the lions don't eat us for dinner first.
If the environmentalists were practicing what they preached, they wouldn't eat, since killing animals is wrong, and eating vegetation would affect CO2 levels; they wouldn't drink water, since it would cause them to urinate, polluting water sources all around; they wouldn't breathe, since they'd be spewing forth CO2; in fact, they couldn't die either, since decomposition releases all the baddies that have been stored in their bodies. They should just jettison their cold, dead bodies into space - oh wait, they can't because they'd have to burn fuel, and they'd be leaving junk in space.
Fools, the lot of them. Environmentalism is a contradiction within itself.
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It'll certainly give new meaning to "Watching the game, havin' a Bud..."
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If I remember correctly, I believe it was attempted as a defense in a rape case, and the defendant was successfully acquitted - although the women's (or is that womyn's?) rights groups started a hissing fit, and it got legislated out.
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Funny, that...it used to be that whenever a new oil well was tapped, they'd burn off the natural gas.
If they'd only known...
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"Hey, Joe, got a light?"
"Yeah, Bob, just a sec...I need to light up my smoke first..."
Ka-BOOOOOOOOOOOM
And I've seen an engineer lose a finger because the iron pinky ring that engineers wear got shorted across a car battery.
The outlets on the battery must have been pretty close together for the Iron Ring to short it out. The largest Iron Ring I ever saw belonged to a guy that had a pinky roughly the size of my thumb, and that's still not quite an inch across.
ERTW!
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Don't forget Schroedinger...
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Heh, I remember a mini-app that someone sent to a few friends of mine - if you ran it, it would bring up a error dialog box that said something to the effect of:
Windows has detected that your penis size is too small. Is this true? [Yes] [No]
Every time the pointer came close to "No", the button would move to the other side of "Yes". Whoever ran the app would have to pick "Yes" to get it to quit.
If anyone knows the exact wording of that joke app's dialog, I'd appreciate it if you could post it.
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