Um, honestly I'm not quite sure what this is all about, but just from the story blurb, I'm pretty sure that Americans have nothing to do with this.
"The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away."
Exactly. Once you pass Armstrong's line, (apx 63,000 ft.) removing yourself from a pressure suit will boil off your blood and other bodily fluids nearly instantly. Possibly even the water in each individual cell would boil off bursting each individual cell if the pressure were low enough.
I mean immagine that. It's not like putting a bomb in a building. It's like putting a bomb in a building, AND putting a small explosive charge INSIDE every brick and every beam and every plank of wood that makes up the building. Then detonating it all at once.
Best case, a few seconds to live. Worst case, death would be immidiate. Or possibly reverse that, depending on your point of view.
Actually, I got your referance, but I didn't get the parent reference. It wasn't until I went back and looked at it again looking for a ghostbusters reference that I remembered the line.
It took me longer to type that, than it did to find these. I can't think of any books that are easier to find in ebook form than dead tree. Except for books that were published as ebooks originally.
IF you can find a book in ebook format, sure, it's faster to download than to drive to Barnes and Noble, or have it shipped to you. But the titles you cited are NOT in any way hard to find. Now, take some obscure authors, and you might have a point. But if an author is that obscure, chances are there aren't any ebooks floating around either.
Why is he an asshole? Because you happen to disagree with him? What he says may be depressing, and it might be better if he was wrong, but what he says is, well, true. *MOST* Americans do want personal transportation. Do you commute to work in the US via road? If you do, you'll see that most people are alone in their cars. Many places even hav "HOV" (High occupancy vehicle) lanes to encourage carpooling. The way it works is that you can only drive in this special lane if you have 2 (in some places 3) or more people in your car. Since not everyone can use it, the theory is that it'll be faster when the roads are congested. Well, it workd, because almost NOBODY can drive in them. In many places, there is so little HOV traffic that they dropped the programs and converted the HOV lanes back into regular lanes.
Face it, he's just right. We need to try to find a way of winning people over to mass transit. But nothing so far has seemed to work.
No. What's wrong with Jersey jokes? Yeah, when they're not funny, or they're unorigional, they're not funny just like anything else. But it's not like we're some kind of persecuted minority. Give it a rest and lightern up. I really hope you're just trolling and you're not serious.
By the way, I've lived in NJ most of my life (currently in Jackson, by Six Flags Great Adventure), and your little argument isn't any more convincing because of that.
Also, I remember hearing from the Discovery Chanel or TLC or Discovery Wings or something that the F-117 Stealth Fighter was developed under budget, but I can't seem to find a reliable link.
It happens. It's rare percentage wise, but it does happen all the time. With the exception of the last two, which I only found out from google searching for links for the rest, I knew of all of these off of the top of my head, so it's not a big secret or anything. Just think of all the mundane projects that come in under budget too. Government buildings, roadways, etc.
Never saw real nudes of her, but here's the closest I've ever seen. Sorry for the quality of the scan, I lost the magazine years ago, and I found this one floating around gnutella.
I can still see excitment on graphics or sound with modern games. It's just on a very diffrent level.
No longer is it "Hey, they mad the NES say 'IM BAD' using nothing but beeps and tones!!!" ala "Bad Dudes". Now it's "Wow, the soundtrack to this game rocks. Music is top notch, etc, etc..." Ever watch a movie? Ever thought "The soundtrack to this film is great." Same thing with modern games.
Graphics, however are not at that nearly 100% realistic level yet. The Final Fantasy movie came damn close, but it's still not there. And no games produce that kind of quality in real time yet anyway. So, yes, it's very possible to get excited about graphics of a new game the same way we did in moving from Super Mario Bros to SMB 2 or 3, or NES to SNES, or MIDI to Sound Blaster(TM). I stil remember the first time I played Doom with a sound card. WAY diffrent experience! Now there are games like Thief that are so sound centric, that it's unplayable without sound.
But aren't we missing the big picture?
Citizen Kubuto looked great, but what about gameplay?
I'd rather play Super Mario Bros. 3.
It's more FUN (to me at leat). It's got better game play. New games aren't all devoid of great gameplay (Half-Life, Max Payne, Starcraft, Super Smash Bros Mele, and the Grand Theft Auto series come to mind...)
These days the next big thing can very well be a great new way of using the game to tell the story (Wing Commander did this, and so did Half-Life (Think about it, what other game never leaves the 1st person perspective even for a one second cut scene, ever?)) Or the next big thing can be a gimick like Bullet Time in Max Payne. Or it can just be a georgous new rehash of an older saga, like Metroid Prime. On the surface, it's just a FPS, in the Metroid universe. the graphics are georgous, but are they more or less so than Return To Castle Wolenstein, or Alien Vs. Predator 2? I dunno. Hard to say. But Metroid Prime certainly has me excited. I can't wait to delve into another chapter of Samus' adventure. We shall see how well a side scroller like Metroid translates to an FPS.
For further reading, may I suggest you play any of the Donkey Kong Country series on the SNES. Pay close attention to Cranky Kong. You'd like him. ( ;
I see that one everywhere online while looking for another. Anyone remember the commerical for the Legend of Zelda (or perhaps Zelda II: The Adventures of Link) that had Link running around in a forrest shouting "Zeeeeeeeeldaaaaaaa!?" Just one of those things that's stuck in my head for years and years, but I've never been able to find online.
First of all, I claimed that it's the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V. It's not more powerful than the Saturn V.
Though those numbers don't match NASA's for the space shuttle, nor do the Atlas V's match what I've read for any varient (highest is 20,050 KG for the Atlas V 552) you are correct about the Shuttle outlifting the new Atlas series. I read one of the press releases wrong. Sorry for any confusion.
It's *my* personal belief that upon death, one is dead. One no longer exists in any form. Because there is no evidence to sudgest that we become anything other than a rotting body.
I haven't decided what I'd like to become of my remains, other than that I'd like to donate my organs. This sounds interesting, but it's expensive and I'm just not sure it's for me anyway. I suppose I'd like to let those surviving me to choose how they wish to remember me.
No, respectfuly, I ask, why do you hold these (to me) irrational belief? (And also, what do vulcans have to do with anything?)
No it's not, I have the FARs right in front of me. They cover this very subject. And I quote:
"Dropping objects.
No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property."
And just for clarification, "civil aircraft" or civil aviation covers everything in the US that's not military aviation. Private, commercial, recreational, whatever.
About 100 mammoths have been recovered in Russia, among them the world's finest museum examples. These include the skeleton of the Adams mammoth, found in Yakutia in 1806, and the Berezovka mammoth, recovered in northeastern Siberia in 1901. This had an erect penis, thought to be because it died of asphyxiation. The stuffed Berezovka mammoth and the skeleton are both on display at the Zoological Museum of St Petersburg.
I mean, c'mon, isn't that just begging for the trolls to just run with it?
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Just found some screenshots with comparisons. IT looks pretty bad, but not worth what they're asking in the lawsuit.
here
Um, honestly I'm not quite sure what this is all about, but just from the story blurb, I'm pretty sure that Americans have nothing to do with this.
"The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away."
Or what about calling it Sphaero? Seems appropriate to me.
Exactly. Once you pass Armstrong's line, (apx 63,000 ft.) removing yourself from a pressure suit will boil off your blood and other bodily fluids nearly instantly. Possibly even the water in each individual cell would boil off bursting each individual cell if the pressure were low enough.
I mean immagine that. It's not like putting a bomb in a building. It's like putting a bomb in a building, AND putting a small explosive charge INSIDE every brick and every beam and every plank of wood that makes up the building. Then detonating it all at once.
Best case, a few seconds to live. Worst case, death would be immidiate. Or possibly reverse that, depending on your point of view.
Actually, I got your referance, but I didn't get the parent reference. It wasn't until I went back and looked at it again looking for a ghostbusters reference that I remembered the line.
At the risk of making myself look foolish, well...
Yes, it is.
Methinks you'ds seen The Big Hit a few too many times. ( :
Down and Out in London and Paris:
On Amazon and on Barnes & Noble
Burmese Days:
On Amazon and on Barnes & Noble
It took me longer to type that, than it did to find these. I can't think of any books that are easier to find in ebook form than dead tree. Except for books that were published as ebooks originally.
IF you can find a book in ebook format, sure, it's faster to download than to drive to Barnes and Noble, or have it shipped to you. But the titles you cited are NOT in any way hard to find. Now, take some obscure authors, and you might have a point. But if an author is that obscure, chances are there aren't any ebooks floating around either.
Why is he an asshole? Because you happen to disagree with him? What he says may be depressing, and it might be better if he was wrong, but what he says is, well, true. *MOST* Americans do want personal transportation. Do you commute to work in the US via road? If you do, you'll see that most people are alone in their cars. Many places even hav "HOV" (High occupancy vehicle) lanes to encourage carpooling. The way it works is that you can only drive in this special lane if you have 2 (in some places 3) or more people in your car. Since not everyone can use it, the theory is that it'll be faster when the roads are congested. Well, it workd, because almost NOBODY can drive in them. In many places, there is so little HOV traffic that they dropped the programs and converted the HOV lanes back into regular lanes.
Face it, he's just right. We need to try to find a way of winning people over to mass transit. But nothing so far has seemed to work.
Did someone say 'flying car'?
No. What's wrong with Jersey jokes? Yeah, when they're not funny, or they're unorigional, they're not funny just like anything else. But it's not like we're some kind of persecuted minority. Give it a rest and lightern up. I really hope you're just trolling and you're not serious.
By the way, I've lived in NJ most of my life (currently in Jackson, by Six Flags Great Adventure), and your little argument isn't any more convincing because of that.
Just one?
The Panama Canal.
Lockheed Martin's X-33 single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicle concept.
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
The NEAR space probe (and it was delivered 9 months ahead of schedule!)
The World Trade Center recovery effort.
The US Navy's Super Hornet (upgrade to the old F/A-18 Hornet Naval strike fighter)
The U2 Spy Plane
Also, I remember hearing from the Discovery Chanel or TLC or Discovery Wings or something that the F-117 Stealth Fighter was developed under budget, but I can't seem to find a reliable link.
Golden Grove Prison at St. Croix in the US Vigrin Islands.
The Grand Staircase-Escalante monument in Utah.
It happens. It's rare percentage wise, but it does happen all the time. With the exception of the last two, which I only found out from google searching for links for the rest, I knew of all of these off of the top of my head, so it's not a big secret or anything. Just think of all the mundane projects that come in under budget too. Government buildings, roadways, etc.
He just told you. 31 Years ago. Duh.
Okay, I'll feed the troll...
Yes there is.
Never saw real nudes of her, but here's the closest I've ever seen. Sorry for the quality of the scan, I lost the magazine years ago, and I found this one floating around gnutella.
http://female-ejaculation.com/crusher.html
I'm sure she's not nude under there, but I've always loved this shot...
Eureka!
I have found The Zelda commercial in question. And I must say, it's much, much, much worse than I remember! Sorry, Windows Media Format only.
Also some other sites talking about the commercial.
I can still see excitment on graphics or sound with modern games. It's just on a very diffrent level.
No longer is it "Hey, they mad the NES say 'IM BAD' using nothing but beeps and tones!!!" ala "Bad Dudes". Now it's "Wow, the soundtrack to this game rocks. Music is top notch, etc, etc..." Ever watch a movie? Ever thought "The soundtrack to this film is great." Same thing with modern games.
Graphics, however are not at that nearly 100% realistic level yet. The Final Fantasy movie came damn close, but it's still not there. And no games produce that kind of quality in real time yet anyway. So, yes, it's very possible to get excited about graphics of a new game the same way we did in moving from Super Mario Bros to SMB 2 or 3, or NES to SNES, or MIDI to Sound Blaster(TM). I stil remember the first time I played Doom with a sound card. WAY diffrent experience! Now there are games like Thief that are so sound centric, that it's unplayable without sound.
But aren't we missing the big picture?
Citizen Kubuto looked great, but what about gameplay?
I'd rather play Super Mario Bros. 3.
It's more FUN (to me at leat). It's got better game play. New games aren't all devoid of great gameplay (Half-Life, Max Payne, Starcraft, Super Smash Bros Mele, and the Grand Theft Auto series come to mind...)
These days the next big thing can very well be a great new way of using the game to tell the story (Wing Commander did this, and so did Half-Life (Think about it, what other game never leaves the 1st person perspective even for a one second cut scene, ever?)) Or the next big thing can be a gimick like Bullet Time in Max Payne. Or it can just be a georgous new rehash of an older saga, like Metroid Prime. On the surface, it's just a FPS, in the Metroid universe. the graphics are georgous, but are they more or less so than Return To Castle Wolenstein, or Alien Vs. Predator 2? I dunno. Hard to say. But Metroid Prime certainly has me excited. I can't wait to delve into another chapter of Samus' adventure. We shall see how well a side scroller like Metroid translates to an FPS.
For further reading, may I suggest you play any of the Donkey Kong Country series on the SNES. Pay close attention to Cranky Kong. You'd like him. ( ;
I see that one everywhere online while looking for another. Anyone remember the commerical for the Legend of Zelda (or perhaps Zelda II: The Adventures of Link) that had Link running around in a forrest shouting "Zeeeeeeeeldaaaaaaa!?" Just one of those things that's stuck in my head for years and years, but I've never been able to find online.
Warning: Anoying plugin-loading-background-midi-music on parent post's page.
The varient that took off today is a lightweight varient of the new Atlas V. The strongest is the Atlas V 552 with a max payload of 22 tons.
First of all, I claimed that it's the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V. It's not more powerful than the Saturn V.
Though those numbers don't match NASA's for the space shuttle, nor do the Atlas V's match what I've read for any varient (highest is 20,050 KG for the Atlas V 552) you are correct about the Shuttle outlifting the new Atlas series. I read one of the press releases wrong. Sorry for any confusion.
Why?
It's *my* personal belief that upon death, one is dead. One no longer exists in any form. Because there is no evidence to sudgest that we become anything other than a rotting body.
I haven't decided what I'd like to become of my remains, other than that I'd like to donate my organs. This sounds interesting, but it's expensive and I'm just not sure it's for me anyway. I suppose I'd like to let those surviving me to choose how they wish to remember me.
No, respectfuly, I ask, why do you hold these (to me) irrational belief? (And also, what do vulcans have to do with anything?)
No it's not, I have the FARs right in front of me. They cover this very subject. And I quote:
"Dropping objects.
No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property."
- FAR Sec. 91.15
Or, here's a link.
And just for clarification, "civil aircraft" or civil aviation covers everything in the US that's not military aviation. Private, commercial, recreational, whatever.
Sorry I forgot the quotes, but that's from the article. Read it, love it, enjoy it. Also from the article to answer your question:
"...Russian scientists admit that all the greatest mammoth finds to date have been ruined by crude excavation and preservation methods."
About 100 mammoths have been recovered in Russia, among them the world's finest museum examples. These include the skeleton of the Adams mammoth, found in Yakutia in 1806, and the Berezovka mammoth, recovered in northeastern Siberia in 1901. This had an erect penis, thought to be because it died of asphyxiation. The stuffed Berezovka mammoth and the skeleton are both on display at the Zoological Museum of St Petersburg.
I mean, c'mon, isn't that just begging for the trolls to just run with it?