He mentions that the story of the origin of the date says that it's from the time man first walked on the moon, but that if you really spent the time digging deep enough you would find it's a while later... 1970
You realize that games are generally made to use as little bandwidth as possible? If I had to guess I'd say you'd get more bandwidth saved by banning porn...
I'm not a satellite expert or anything but one of the things that keeps costs down on these satellites is that they can't fly around. It's not practical for cost to build a satellite that can zip around all of space...
It is apparently a huge social taboo in the deaf culture to do anything to try and cure your deafness. An example is this woman who got fired for getting a cochlear implant. This is just fucking dumb. Can you imagine if all the people with amputated legs would hate you if you lost your leg and got a prosthesis?
Another thing along the same lines, that I can't find with a quick Google, is babies. Apparently this genetically deaf couple decided to get a sperm and egg donation so that their baby would be able to hear. They got ostracized.
"The ACLU actively supports affirmative action as a remedy for discrimination in employment and education."
By the Fourteenth Amendment they were getting into more legal bullshitting than the earlier Amendments but that's the one that's supposed to make the races equal. "Equal protection under law" and all that. I don't see how you can look at the 14th amendment as part of a Constitution of principles and pull "active support" for AA from it. Neutrality, maybe, but not active support.
I will take the second amendment, as that is the big one.
The amendments in the constitution generally follow the form of protecting the individual's rights through denying power to the government.
For example, the first amendment protects the individual's right to free speech by denying the government the power to infringe upon that right.
The only part of the bill of rights that gives any powers to the states is the Tenth Amendment, which is the second of the two mostly-ignored "catch-all" amendments intended to limit federal power, and it says that any powers not given to the federal government or forbidden to the states belong to the states or the people.
The ACLU claims that the Second Amendment also is intended to give rights to the states rather than to the individuals:
"We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government."
This is very much out of character with the Constitution, which recognizes that only individuals have rights. The various governments of the country are given powers, but never seen as having rights, and only the one amendment of the bill of rights even gives the states any powers.
The amendment really doesn't make sense when you look at the fact that the running of the militia (in the "National Guard" sense) is described in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, and especially considering that "No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay."
There's also semantics arguments that I won't really get into as I don't know much about them, except to say that back then "militia" might have meant "able-bodied citizens" and "well-regulated" might have meant "familiar with guns."
I just don't like interpretations of the Constitution that view government as having rights or that have rights descending from the government.
Nothing would go "wrong like Chernobyl." They won't be flying a working reactor through space. The worst-case disaster is that the rocket carrying the uranium fuel explodes during takeoff, leading to the possibility of uranium being spread throughout the atmosphere.
Why not send the astronauts there with no plans of getting them back? I don't mean abandon them to die...
I think it would be easier to have a one-way manned flight with resupplies and maybe additional astronauts following, all with the understanding that it will probably be decades and perhaps after their death from old age before there will be two-way travel.
You'd just have to set them up with an internet connection so they didn't get bored. Unfortunately, pings to Mars will measure in minutes, so they won't be able to play Half-Life 4 online. We could give them an obscene amount of bandwidth and upload the whole internet to them every night, though, so they could have lag free connections to static material...
Because once you tell me I am going to do some research and you better be damn sure that your country has had uninterrupted power since the turn of the century.
I am going to suggest that the U.S. alert the U.N. to put in place an emergency mission to provide you with a clue.
It definitely is a failure of the system put in place after the last failure like this. However, part of the safeguards did work: last time, many generating plants were damaged during the failure, but this time they shut down before they took damage.
When I was about 14 I knew this kid who sold CDs with pictures/movies of 14/15 year olds, to others the same age... (No, I didn't buy one, even then I knew not to pay for porn...)
And the British one actually has images with a high enough resolution that you can read it. (That is, if your Latin isn't at the level of a three year old Roman.)
The guy who runs it was tired of putting up with the DoS shit and also leaving on a vacation... Go to torrentlinks.com they have a link to a forum post explaining.
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He mentions that the story of the origin of the date says that it's from the time man first walked on the moon, but that if you really spent the time digging deep enough you would find it's a while later... 1970
Tim
And a minor spoiler but a great thing to notice...
Twirlip of the Mists was RIGHT the whole time... Take a close look at the description of the Skroderiders and Twirlip's posts...
Tim
You realize that games are generally made to use as little bandwidth as possible? If I had to guess I'd say you'd get more bandwidth saved by banning porn...
Tim
I don't think anyone I know in our dorms has even bothered getting phone service hooked up - cellular is the way of the future...
Tim
I'm not a satellite expert or anything but one of the things that keeps costs down on these satellites is that they can't fly around. It's not practical for cost to build a satellite that can zip around all of space...
Tim
Yeah, because all that vacuum is going to hold the radiation around forever and ever...
Tim
It is apparently a huge social taboo in the deaf culture to do anything to try and cure your deafness. An example is this woman who got fired for getting a cochlear implant. This is just fucking dumb. Can you imagine if all the people with amputated legs would hate you if you lost your leg and got a prosthesis?
Another thing along the same lines, that I can't find with a quick Google, is babies. Apparently this genetically deaf couple decided to get a sperm and egg donation so that their baby would be able to hear. They got ostracized.
Tim
I would say that even with that viewpoint it at least means that the people have the right to musketry and cannon.
Tim
"The ACLU actively supports affirmative action as a remedy for discrimination in employment and education."
By the Fourteenth Amendment they were getting into more legal bullshitting than the earlier Amendments but that's the one that's supposed to make the races equal. "Equal protection under law" and all that. I don't see how you can look at the 14th amendment as part of a Constitution of principles and pull "active support" for AA from it. Neutrality, maybe, but not active support.
Tim
I will take the second amendment, as that is the big one.
The amendments in the constitution generally follow the form of protecting the individual's rights through denying power to the government.
For example, the first amendment protects the individual's right to free speech by denying the government the power to infringe upon that right.
The only part of the bill of rights that gives any powers to the states is the Tenth Amendment, which is the second of the two mostly-ignored "catch-all" amendments intended to limit federal power, and it says that any powers not given to the federal government or forbidden to the states belong to the states or the people.
The ACLU claims that the Second Amendment also is intended to give rights to the states rather than to the individuals:
"We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias to assure their own freedom and security against the central government."
This is very much out of character with the Constitution, which recognizes that only individuals have rights. The various governments of the country are given powers, but never seen as having rights, and only the one amendment of the bill of rights even gives the states any powers.
The amendment really doesn't make sense when you look at the fact that the running of the militia (in the "National Guard" sense) is described in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, and especially considering that "No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay."
There's also semantics arguments that I won't really get into as I don't know much about them, except to say that back then "militia" might have meant "able-bodied citizens" and "well-regulated" might have meant "familiar with guns."
I just don't like interpretations of the Constitution that view government as having rights or that have rights descending from the government.
Tim
Nothing would go "wrong like Chernobyl." They won't be flying a working reactor through space. The worst-case disaster is that the rocket carrying the uranium fuel explodes during takeoff, leading to the possibility of uranium being spread throughout the atmosphere.
Tim
Why not send the astronauts there with no plans of getting them back? I don't mean abandon them to die...
I think it would be easier to have a one-way manned flight with resupplies and maybe additional astronauts following, all with the understanding that it will probably be decades and perhaps after their death from old age before there will be two-way travel.
You'd just have to set them up with an internet connection so they didn't get bored. Unfortunately, pings to Mars will measure in minutes, so they won't be able to play Half-Life 4 online. We could give them an obscene amount of bandwidth and upload the whole internet to them every night, though, so they could have lag free connections to static material...
Tim
You mean the station that was a great success and outlasted its design lifetime?
Tim
Certain parts of the Constitution, yes. The First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment...
However, they are great about perverting the meanings of other parts, like the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
Tim
Because once you tell me I am going to do some research and you better be damn sure that your country has had uninterrupted power since the turn of the century.
I am going to suggest that the U.S. alert the U.N. to put in place an emergency mission to provide you with a clue.
Tim
It definitely is a failure of the system put in place after the last failure like this. However, part of the safeguards did work: last time, many generating plants were damaged during the failure, but this time they shut down before they took damage.
Tim
Play Natural Selection for Half-Life - the basic alien has the ability to crawl on walls and ceilings.
Tim
When I was about 14 I knew this kid who sold CDs with pictures/movies of 14/15 year olds, to others the same age... (No, I didn't buy one, even then I knew not to pay for porn...)
Tim
Wal-Mart, at least around me, is one of the better paying "I have no skills and don't want to do physical labor either" jobs available...
Tim
I sent them an e-mail reporting a minor problem and it took them months to get back to me.
Tim
And the British one actually has images with a high enough resolution that you can read it. (That is, if your Latin isn't at the level of a three year old Roman.)
Tim
But some sites did go down or get very slow for various lengths of time as Slashdot linked to BitTorrent sites again and again.
Tim
The guy who runs it was tired of putting up with the DoS shit and also leaving on a vacation... Go to torrentlinks.com they have a link to a forum post explaining.
Tim
If this is the third movie, does anyone have links to the first two?
Tim
Shocking yourself with 120 V through one hand feels like a nice hand massage.
Tim