I know, here in Colorado with the Arsenal Reclamation Project, they're cleaning up shavings from machinists having worked depleted uranium..........with a lathe..........wearing regular 'ol shop clothes. I've worked depleted Uranium with machine tools myself, not too entirely dangerous as long as you take precautions to prevent skin contact and inhalation.
Having seen faceplates and knowing what basic function they have to serve, and being a machinist......
You could knock another faceplate out tha would serve the same purpose for less than $5 in material and maybe an hour of your own personal time. Assuming you had the machines and tooling.
Actually a lucrative thing to do, if you have the resources:-P
Well, I can tell you no such thing would happen! I live in Colorado and all good Christians know "Colorado" as the following: Dobsonia God's Country and, my favorite, Six Flags Over Jesus.
Which just goes to show that christians have no idea what the hell they're talking about. Being a state quite on the liberal side of things (still conservative where it counts though, guns!), having a capitol city mandating the legalization of marijuana. Hell, the city with the highest per-capita marijana use in the country resides here; Boulder. Less than %20 of the state is actively religious, the single life the raunchiest in the country, and the drugs quite easily acquired.
Aside from that, it's also a tech capitol. Internet companies moving headquarters here left and right, mapquest just located an office here. Raytheon, Boeing, Lochheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, all have offices or even headquarter here. Not to mention Coors, CoorsTek, Pepsi and Coca-Cola. HP and Sun, Avaya, Colorado is picking up quite a few companies.
Wait, isn't our president one of those weary eyed christians? You all must have the same disease or something!
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
The day I become a Colberadan is the day I grab some Fire Sauce and a shotgun, and start hunting for a brass eagle................
Being that white people are the majority of the electorate, official conduct on the part of elected officials (police chiefs, city councilmen, etc) and their subordinates isn't racism when it's directed against white people.
It's abusive, it's corrupt, it's dishonerable but it's not racism.
LK
You've never been on the business end of a racism card. Never. Never in your life have you been accused of being racist for the sole purpose of belittling you and make you an enemy in the public eye. Never have you had rumors spread behind your back that you hate black or hispanic people; simply for the cause of having your ass beat.
We live in a day and age where those "representative" of the "minorities" (haven't been for decades, thank you) can gear an entire community's hate towards an entity for no other mention than that of racism. I'll tell you what, we white fuckers step pretty fucking carefully cause of the bullshit pulled by the extorsionists the likes of Cochran. Black Panthers, those who followed Malcom X, Tupac, etc., all were cashing in on the racism card. This coming from a fan and someone who truly appreciates TuPac's lyrics.
Never have you had an entire community's hatred geared at YOU because it would benefit some televangelist with votes or donations, not because you deserved it. I already know the first words out of your mouth are going to be "Well, the tables have changed, guess you know what we've been feeling the past 300 years!". Except what the fuck did I ever do to anyone except not put up with their shit.
Until you get lynched for sleeping with a white woman, shut the fuck up.
And to modify his point, just so you know, actuary == bean counter. You remember the whole schpiel in Fight Club about deciding whether or not it was worth it to recall a defaulty car (that gets people killed)? Yeah, that.
You are quite badly underestimating the cunning and wit of those responsible for this move. This stinks of strategy here. What better way to ensure to survival of one of your most robust and important defensive capabilities than to make people believe it's somewhere it isn't?
50 bucks says it's either staying right where it is, or Norad is being moved to a location that is NOT Edmonton AFB.
As much as you've made a compelling (yet completely inaccurate) argument. It is all rendered pointless and completely disaffecting by the simple fact that you're not an American. Every "fact" you have stated is completely false and that's not just the ones regarding the state of affairs in the US.
Until you grow some fucking balls and cross the pond into the states, you have no right, idea or proper education to make the arguments you just made.
And where in the hell did you get that figure on Uranium? We don't even know how much Uranium there is out there, let alone how much of the world's power consumption it could meet. But to best current guesses, it could cover us for close to a century, rising power demands taken into account. We have close to 125,000 nukes (maybe more, although they're in the process of decomission), and from personal experience having worked for the Renewable Energy lab in Golden, CO; spending on research has doubled.
The parent was right, spending on education has increased. And for god's fucking sake, don't even bother yourself trying to dictate events in American government until you have an American Passport, you arrogant prick.
I actually approve of this. Believe it or not, the average coloradan with broadband (%32 of us now, no shit) is using 802.11G without even knowing it. They see the rabbit ears on their router and don't think twice, their kids might make a fuss about the WEP key so they can play their Nintendo DS with their friends; they're otherwise unaware. Now a little more than half of that %32 is made up of engineers and IT workers that have the wherewithall to do something about it, but that still leaves a couple hundred thousand people in Douglas County unaware of their network and why their bandwidth is being hogged by the freeloaders next door.
Now, knowing Douglas county sheriff and deputies, they're fairly smart guys. Most of them as computer literate as us, and friendly enough to secure their network for them. This saves me the time, as I'm the general, all around, fix-anything-electronic-mechanical-or-just-plain-c onfusing guy. Seeing as how the crime rate is down, nothing happens in Douglas (Denver county however is just as bad as Detroit) and how stand up our Sheriff and Deputies are; I see this as a good thing.
However, this is a local thing, an area like ours is a phenomena. In big places like NYC or LA or Dallas, don't even come knocking on my door expecting me not to answer with a shotgun in hand. That with or without a badge present. Douglas is one of those areas just big enough to have the fun stuff like movie theatres and good restaurants but still small enough that everyone knows eachother. It's almost like that across all of metro Denver, in their respective urban divisions anyway. All the kids in Adams county know eachother or their friends, same in Jefferson, Brighton, Aurora, etc.. Denver Metro for being 2.7 million people is kind of the small world place that is good for trustworthy cops and good people. The only downside is the disproportional presence of criminals and druggies.
Anyway, as a resident, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Potential for abuse, but we know the people capable of abusing, and we wouldn't let it stand. Despite our representatives in government, this is still very much an independant, watchdog state. We fried a city mayor (of which there's almost 40 in the metro area) for just being within 50 feet of a strip club. Denver's mayor is about to be fried over swaying on the side of a developer trying to encite imminent domain to evict a mere 14 people out east for a super-slab highway. But that's just us.
If I were to see something like this happening in LA or NY, I'd be worried for the citizens of that area;)
Now, when you build such a high-end system you probably wouldn't skimp on the case ($200), motherboard ($200 & up), memory ($300 & up), power supply ($100 & up) and peripherals, either, so let's allow another grand for these things and you wind up with a $4000 PC.
You're about half off on that price estimate there. If you're talking about not skimping, you'd be building on a server board that's SLI capable. This means 2 processors, quite possibly 4, if Asus gets off their ass. So add on another $1k just for the extra proc (3K if it's a 4 proc board), throw in the 12-24Gb worth of high-quality registered RAM, $1,800-$2,600. Then there's cooling, you have to go liquid cooled to maintain the heat all those watts are going to put out; figure another &400-$800 worth of water blocks, pumps, hoses, reservoirs, radiators and coolant. And last but not least, we can't forget optical drives, sound card and speakers, mic, camera, media card reader and a fan controller for the fans in your radiator, figure about $600 there.
All this, and you still have to buy a monitor. Don't bother skimping on the 19", go for something with the native resolution you just paid $7-$12K to be able to handle, a 25" TFT with 8ms response time, $2500.
You think home pc's are expensive? You haven't seen anything til you make a corporate workstation meant for research, CAD/CAM or compile heave applications. I've made workstations capable of 4.86 teraflops, sucking all 1000 watts out of the wall, handling a minimum of 85 fps or so playing F.E.A.R.
"Not Skimping" are two words few people know about;)
I'm a cyclist as well, and I seriously can't wait.
I'm a pedicab driver in downtown Denver (those bikes with the rear wheel lopped off and replaced with and axle, with a carriage mounted on top), I get requests for noname bars and restaurants that opened up a week ago. I have no idea where these places are and rolling around looking for them with 400+ pounds of people in a 300 pound bike is not only tiring but costs me money. Most pda's are too impractical, either too big, not weather proof, or too hard to operate while driving in traffic (the pedicabs are street legal, have blinkers, etc.; sidewalks are too narrow alot of the time so I have to remain in the streets with the cars). A voice recognition software package coupled with a gps enabled pda (they exist), and glasses similar to these would be helpful after some hacking and modifications.
I'd like to see tv glasses that are still glasses. Preferably sunglasses with easily switched out lenses to be night glasses (clear with an extremely high gloss to cut glare on your eyes from headlights) that can deploy the projector or screen when needed. This would be helpful for checking the game score when there's a sporting event, to gauge when to show up at the field, stadium or colliseum (people always leave early when the team's doing bad, usually wanting to go to their cars 5 or 6 blocks away). Or perhaps to find out exactly where that noname bar or club is, give a customer the best route home from the parking lot he/she drove into; such a thing would make my job much easier and enjoyable.
Now I just have to find a way to keep drunk women from grabbing my ass and damn near driving their thumb up my wazee..........
Simple. We outnumber them. %40 of American households have firearms. Roughly 180 million Americans have firearms available to arm them. Our armed forces is comprised of about 8 million, currently. Trained or not, a division or their equipment do not stand a chance against even a simple regiment of competent hunters using the countryside they know so well to their advantage. The American people can overcome their own military if it came down to it, our government is just trying to take our rights away from us in a way that we don't notice before it's too late.
Dude, just to let you know, he's american. I can spot him from a mile away. I'm American myself. And I'm not giving up the opportunity to mod you troll because you're pointing out the parallels between our democratic society and that of a communist one, I would've modded you troll for being so ignorant as to think that we Americans don't already know.
Americans are smarter than you think, some of us anyway. Most the smartasses you see making comments like the one you're criticizing are exactly that: intelligent, sourly satirical Americans pissed about the situation their government is putting them in and the fact that there's not really anything they can do about it. Fixed elections, politically controlled media, no responsibility for actions in the executive or legislative branch, shit's going downhill and half of us know it. We're just smart enough not to depress ourselves over it like most of you european pussies who mope and bitch about every little fucking thing.
Get one thing straight from now on, Americans aren't stupid, ignorant or weak in any way, shape or form. But we are stubborn, cocky and rude.
I'm sick and god-damned of hearing about a minor's age in reference to their capability to perform task A or B. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that only 2 reasons exist for a 16 year old being unfit to drive a car: parents, or retardation.
Let's face the facts folks, if you can teach a kid respect for a gun, you can do the same with a car. It's those idiot fucks who think that a simple driving class at the local teen pregnancy capitol of a highschool is going to do the job that are responsible for accidents like this. Was I cocky when I was driving my LeBaron around fresh after getting my license? Yes, was I stupid enough to do what they did? Not without fearing a holy ass beating from my parents.
I got into an accident 3 months after I got my license, the fucker plowed into me in NORMAL traffic, we're talking driving down a road without a single traffic light or stop sign in the way, going 45 MPH. And this was a major city road, trust my word when I say it was his fault. I promptly honked him over to the nearest gas station, got out of the car, called the police and in an even quicker manner WHOOOPED HIS FUCKING ASS when he pulled out a fake ID and had no insurance. Slashed his tires and confiscated his wallet afterwards to prevent his escape. Walked away with an award for capturing an identity thief and got a bonus on my insurance rates. I was just barely 16, had my license for 3 months, and had never yet broken the speed limit. Who was it that I thank for that insight? My parents, the father who put the fear of god in me when taking me out for my hours and my mother who patiently reminded me of driving etiquette when out on the town. Only parents are responsible for this, not video games.
Let's start off by getting one thing out of the way: I would love nothing more than to turn that monkey of a president we have into a red stain in the wall behind him, but I'm intelligent enough to know that would do more harm than good. I hate the war in Iraq, the pipelines in Afghanistan, the people we trained running all around Mexico, Morocco, UAE and London; after Russia's foray into the middle east failed. I hate the fact that good Marines and sappy-ass Army Reservists are dying for a cause they don't feel too strongly about, that my tax dollars are paying for roughly 1,200 Americans a year to die bloody or painful deaths; but that's reality.
Now let's get another thing out of the way. We are the top dog. This country is king. As such we are exposed to greater threat and even more animosity than the rest. Iran is one of those rabid dogs you shoot on sight. Problem is, we can't justify it until we see them frothing at the mouth. Put it this way, it's a people most proud of a heritage, a heritage that just happens to be one of the bloodiest and most violent peoples ever the walk the earth. We're talking about the Persians, people. The very same that wooped some crusading ass, invented the best steel of it's time strictly for the purpose of cleanly taking off spaulded arms, and currently talks of armageddon and ruling the earth. Yeah, the next door neighbor you always see polishing his rifle and drinking a beer. Scary. Do you want that crazy, eccentric, opinionated biggot with a nuclear weapon? Hell no.
There are other issues to consider as well. Think the "Big One" scenario.
The way things are now, mankind is SCREWED if society collapses in any way, shape or form. WW3, aftermath; everything's gone to hell in a handbasket and the people left are trying to put the pieces back together. Problem, no way to resurrect infrastructure. Energy is provided via a very complicated, specialized process, maybe only %.5 of the population is able to facilitate it. After swimming out of arizona bay, there's no power to keep you warm; what for lack of coal supply chains and personnel able to run the plant. Wouldn't be the case with advanced nuclear power, turn-key operated reactors would be infinitely easy to get up and running and *keep* running until more personnel can be trained to handle it.
Nuclear energy is a good way to go in regards to keeping mankind alive in a near-extinction scenario. Now if we could come up with an easily maintained method of transportation.........
That is about the biggest stereotype I've ever heard. Of all the people I've crawled with, only ONE, I repeat ONE of them even knew what Linux was. He so happened to hate it's guts and even snears at me for having turned my gaming computer into a SuSe box even tho I woop his ass at every game we play; while running Linux.
I've played dice games with many, many people, most of them were hardly computer literate. Even more of them are of the assumption that Windows is the only important part of their computer. Playing a tabletop RPG does not a techie make;)
Find a group. This is actually pretty easy, just ask around; there are also mail lists online, I found my current group on a forum called Access Denied. You do however, need to find a group of "real" people. There are D&D players out there who take the game way too seriously and look at it as a way to become a god in their own little worlds, where noone else can compromise them. These people are bad, mace them on sight (hehe, good pun) and quickly report them to the NSA. These people are most commonly referred to as "Meta-" or "Power-" followed by either "gamer", "tard", "fuck" or "loser".
A good D&D session should seem to anyone watching who has no idea what D&D is themself like a bunch of people sitting around a table shooting the shit and sharing jokes. It's a game, you're supposed to have fun. If you sit down with a group and you feel as if you have a heavy burdon on you to pick up the game quickly and turn your character into the best damage dealer in the team, walk away from the group. Find people who are easy going, have respectable jobs, don't live in their parent's basement and like to get the group together for other things besides a D&D session. These are the kind of people who will take the time to answer your questions and even go a little out of their way to show you neat little tricks within the system to make the game more fun. Your DM, the person who dictates the game and presents you with the world that your character will interact with; NEEDS to be a cool guy. As much as the people you're playing with are important to having fun, the DM is equally if not moreso. A good DM is not afraid to kill an entire party if they do something stupid, on the same note a good DM is not afraid to outright kick a player out if he is a pain in the sides of the rest of the players. The DM maintains the balance of the game, he dictates the pace, story, challenges and thus the fun. You should try to stay away from DM's that seem like to type to cheat at video games or lie to their mothers, I'll tell you why in a second.
Now to give you a better idea what to look for, I'll illustrate the experience a good D&D game should be:
You start out at Level 1. You're a peon, an ant, an insignificant little spec in the universe that won't affect any change whatsoever if you were to storm the Baron's keep screaming your lungs out this instant. You have found yourself going on a trek with a group of other insignificant specs. You run into a couple battles, brigands trying to waylay you or what not, and have learned from your experiences. By the time you get where you're going you're level 2 or 3. You still aren't bad ass, your party relies on wit and hair-brained schemes to pull of what you've been tasked or have tasked yourself to do. If you're level 5 by the end of the first session, don't come back for the second, D&D is a game of patience, if you're playing bi-weekly it should take about a year to get to 13th or 14th level. There are 20 levels in D&D, you should not be reading Epic Level Handbooks unless you've been playing in the same world for years. As I said, this game's about having fun, but it's also about telling a story. A campaign (That is the term for a group progressing from 1st level to the End Game) should seem like an epic novel. Think Lord of the Rings, for that is what this game was modeled after. Kingdoms should rise and fall, gods fall from the heavens, dragons slain, tyrannical emperors crushed in the couple of years (game time) the players have lived to affect change around them. Certain players will become kings or tyrants themselves, a good D&D group has a sense of omniscience of them as far as the game is concerned, they know they have a while yet to go and should be in no rush to be 20th level. As a matter of fact, I am one of many D&D players that feels a group should almost never reach epic levels (20th and beyond) in any campaign, ever. A good scope of how you should view levels would be this: You've never practiced martial arts i
I just got out of a relationship with a girl that was a part of the paid popular night life. Liquor promotions, Entertainment Sales, sensual massage, etc. etc..
You'd be quite surprised what a woman relevates to whoring. I find that the general consensus among young women is that as long as they aren't getting paid for "Happy endings", they're working a legitimate job. Same goes for strippers, they don't feel as if they're whores, they think they're giving an audience what they want to see; nothing more. In this day and age, socially acceptable jobs and hobbies have come a long way. Used to be pen and paper games such as Dungeons&Dragons was the work of the devil, now it's for the most part widely accepted and even a curiosity for most people. Walking around downtown with tops off (bikini's replacing) used to be something only gangsters and mobsters do, now it's commonplace on hot days. Socially acceptable has come a long way and women are very keen to this.
But on a more relative note, I myself use an online dating site and have found it to be quite worth my time. Have already met with several attractive and intelligent women, and am meeting with another tomorrow. Now here's something you'd never guess, alot of women are using sites such as Match.com to meet men for no strings attached sex. It varies between site to site, but women too these days are looking for NSA sex, and using the fact they're rarities to their advantage and boning only the most attractive guys they can find on the site. I've met a couple of these women and was surprised to see that they were actually quite attractive! Imagine the look on my face when they say "You ready to go fuck?"
Personally, I promptly turned around and walked away, there's no way to know how many diseases they have if they had been on a romp with every attractive guy on the site. As I said, socially acceptable has changed in this day and age, and women are very keen to that fact.
YOU are a cad/cam program my friend. CNC machines are controlled by a universal machine programming language called G/M code.
It's also probably the simplest script language known to man. Learn how to use it yourself instead of spending several thousand dollars on a CAD/CAM program.
Here's an example of your typical part program for a CNC machine:
G72G81G90G91
G0T1M06
S1200M03
X0Y0Z.1M08
G83X0Z.5Z.1Z.1
G0Z3.0
G0M22
That program just drilled a hole.4 inches deep into the center of a circular part. Fairly simple, neh?
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He's not kidding, dude.
I know, here in Colorado with the Arsenal Reclamation Project, they're cleaning up shavings from machinists having worked depleted uranium..........with a lathe..........wearing regular 'ol shop clothes. I've worked depleted Uranium with machine tools myself, not too entirely dangerous as long as you take precautions to prevent skin contact and inhalation.
Great sex! Then we got married.................. ;)
Having seen faceplates and knowing what basic function they have to serve, and being a machinist......
:-P
You could knock another faceplate out tha would serve the same purpose for less than $5 in material and maybe an hour of your own personal time. Assuming you had the machines and tooling.
Actually a lucrative thing to do, if you have the resources
Holy shit, he's not kidding!
That was hilarious. I'm still laughing.
Just goes to show, real comedy happens in real life.
Well, I can tell you no such thing would happen! I live in Colorado and all good Christians know "Colorado" as the following:
Dobsonia
God's Country
and, my favorite, Six Flags Over Jesus.
Which just goes to show that christians have no idea what the hell they're talking about. Being a state quite on the liberal side of things (still conservative where it counts though, guns!), having a capitol city mandating the legalization of marijuana. Hell, the city with the highest per-capita marijana use in the country resides here; Boulder. Less than %20 of the state is actively religious, the single life the raunchiest in the country, and the drugs quite easily acquired.
Aside from that, it's also a tech capitol. Internet companies moving headquarters here left and right, mapquest just located an office here. Raytheon, Boeing, Lochheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, all have offices or even headquarter here. Not to mention Coors, CoorsTek, Pepsi and Coca-Cola. HP and Sun, Avaya, Colorado is picking up quite a few companies.
Wait, isn't our president one of those weary eyed christians? You all must have the same disease or something!
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
The day I become a Colberadan is the day I grab some Fire Sauce and a shotgun, and start hunting for a brass eagle................
Being that white people are the majority of the electorate, official conduct on the part of elected officials (police chiefs, city councilmen, etc) and their subordinates isn't racism when it's directed against white people.
It's abusive, it's corrupt, it's dishonerable but it's not racism.
LK
You've never been on the business end of a racism card. Never. Never in your life have you been accused of being racist for the sole purpose of belittling you and make you an enemy in the public eye. Never have you had rumors spread behind your back that you hate black or hispanic people; simply for the cause of having your ass beat.
We live in a day and age where those "representative" of the "minorities" (haven't been for decades, thank you) can gear an entire community's hate towards an entity for no other mention than that of racism. I'll tell you what, we white fuckers step pretty fucking carefully cause of the bullshit pulled by the extorsionists the likes of Cochran. Black Panthers, those who followed Malcom X, Tupac, etc., all were cashing in on the racism card. This coming from a fan and someone who truly appreciates TuPac's lyrics.
Never have you had an entire community's hatred geared at YOU because it would benefit some televangelist with votes or donations, not because you deserved it. I already know the first words out of your mouth are going to be "Well, the tables have changed, guess you know what we've been feeling the past 300 years!". Except what the fuck did I ever do to anyone except not put up with their shit.
Until you get lynched for sleeping with a white woman, shut the fuck up.
And to modify his point, just so you know, actuary == bean counter. You remember the whole schpiel in Fight Club about deciding whether or not it was worth it to recall a defaulty car (that gets people killed)? Yeah, that.
You are quite badly underestimating the cunning and wit of those responsible for this move. This stinks of strategy here. What better way to ensure to survival of one of your most robust and important defensive capabilities than to make people believe it's somewhere it isn't?
50 bucks says it's either staying right where it is, or Norad is being moved to a location that is NOT Edmonton AFB.
As much as you've made a compelling (yet completely inaccurate) argument. It is all rendered pointless and completely disaffecting by the simple fact that you're not an American. Every "fact" you have stated is completely false and that's not just the ones regarding the state of affairs in the US.
Until you grow some fucking balls and cross the pond into the states, you have no right, idea or proper education to make the arguments you just made.
And where in the hell did you get that figure on Uranium? We don't even know how much Uranium there is out there, let alone how much of the world's power consumption it could meet. But to best current guesses, it could cover us for close to a century, rising power demands taken into account. We have close to 125,000 nukes (maybe more, although they're in the process of decomission), and from personal experience having worked for the Renewable Energy lab in Golden, CO; spending on research has doubled.
The parent was right, spending on education has increased. And for god's fucking sake, don't even bother yourself trying to dictate events in American government until you have an American Passport, you arrogant prick.
I actually approve of this. Believe it or not, the average coloradan with broadband (%32 of us now, no shit) is using 802.11G without even knowing it. They see the rabbit ears on their router and don't think twice, their kids might make a fuss about the WEP key so they can play their Nintendo DS with their friends; they're otherwise unaware. Now a little more than half of that %32 is made up of engineers and IT workers that have the wherewithall to do something about it, but that still leaves a couple hundred thousand people in Douglas County unaware of their network and why their bandwidth is being hogged by the freeloaders next door.
c onfusing guy. Seeing as how the crime rate is down, nothing happens in Douglas (Denver county however is just as bad as Detroit) and how stand up our Sheriff and Deputies are; I see this as a good thing.
;)
Now, knowing Douglas county sheriff and deputies, they're fairly smart guys. Most of them as computer literate as us, and friendly enough to secure their network for them. This saves me the time, as I'm the general, all around, fix-anything-electronic-mechanical-or-just-plain-
However, this is a local thing, an area like ours is a phenomena. In big places like NYC or LA or Dallas, don't even come knocking on my door expecting me not to answer with a shotgun in hand. That with or without a badge present. Douglas is one of those areas just big enough to have the fun stuff like movie theatres and good restaurants but still small enough that everyone knows eachother. It's almost like that across all of metro Denver, in their respective urban divisions anyway. All the kids in Adams county know eachother or their friends, same in Jefferson, Brighton, Aurora, etc.. Denver Metro for being 2.7 million people is kind of the small world place that is good for trustworthy cops and good people. The only downside is the disproportional presence of criminals and druggies.
Anyway, as a resident, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Potential for abuse, but we know the people capable of abusing, and we wouldn't let it stand. Despite our representatives in government, this is still very much an independant, watchdog state. We fried a city mayor (of which there's almost 40 in the metro area) for just being within 50 feet of a strip club. Denver's mayor is about to be fried over swaying on the side of a developer trying to encite imminent domain to evict a mere 14 people out east for a super-slab highway. But that's just us.
If I were to see something like this happening in LA or NY, I'd be worried for the citizens of that area
Now, when you build such a high-end system you probably wouldn't skimp on the case ($200), motherboard ($200 & up), memory ($300 & up), power supply ($100 & up) and peripherals, either, so let's allow another grand for these things and you wind up with a $4000 PC.
You're about half off on that price estimate there. If you're talking about not skimping, you'd be building on a server board that's SLI capable. This means 2 processors, quite possibly 4, if Asus gets off their ass. So add on another $1k just for the extra proc (3K if it's a 4 proc board), throw in the 12-24Gb worth of high-quality registered RAM, $1,800-$2,600. Then there's cooling, you have to go liquid cooled to maintain the heat all those watts are going to put out; figure another &400-$800 worth of water blocks, pumps, hoses, reservoirs, radiators and coolant. And last but not least, we can't forget optical drives, sound card and speakers, mic, camera, media card reader and a fan controller for the fans in your radiator, figure about $600 there.
All this, and you still have to buy a monitor. Don't bother skimping on the 19", go for something with the native resolution you just paid $7-$12K to be able to handle, a 25" TFT with 8ms response time, $2500.
You think home pc's are expensive? You haven't seen anything til you make a corporate workstation meant for research, CAD/CAM or compile heave applications. I've made workstations capable of 4.86 teraflops, sucking all 1000 watts out of the wall, handling a minimum of 85 fps or so playing F.E.A.R.
"Not Skimping" are two words few people know about
I'm a cyclist as well, and I seriously can't wait.
I'm a pedicab driver in downtown Denver (those bikes with the rear wheel lopped off and replaced with and axle, with a carriage mounted on top), I get requests for noname bars and restaurants that opened up a week ago. I have no idea where these places are and rolling around looking for them with 400+ pounds of people in a 300 pound bike is not only tiring but costs me money. Most pda's are too impractical, either too big, not weather proof, or too hard to operate while driving in traffic (the pedicabs are street legal, have blinkers, etc.; sidewalks are too narrow alot of the time so I have to remain in the streets with the cars). A voice recognition software package coupled with a gps enabled pda (they exist), and glasses similar to these would be helpful after some hacking and modifications.
I'd like to see tv glasses that are still glasses. Preferably sunglasses with easily switched out lenses to be night glasses (clear with an extremely high gloss to cut glare on your eyes from headlights) that can deploy the projector or screen when needed. This would be helpful for checking the game score when there's a sporting event, to gauge when to show up at the field, stadium or colliseum (people always leave early when the team's doing bad, usually wanting to go to their cars 5 or 6 blocks away). Or perhaps to find out exactly where that noname bar or club is, give a customer the best route home from the parking lot he/she drove into; such a thing would make my job much easier and enjoyable.
Now I just have to find a way to keep drunk women from grabbing my ass and damn near driving their thumb up my wazee..........
*ducks*
Simple. We outnumber them. %40 of American households have firearms. Roughly 180 million Americans have firearms available to arm them. Our armed forces is comprised of about 8 million, currently. Trained or not, a division or their equipment do not stand a chance against even a simple regiment of competent hunters using the countryside they know so well to their advantage. The American people can overcome their own military if it came down to it, our government is just trying to take our rights away from us in a way that we don't notice before it's too late.
Dude, just to let you know, he's american. I can spot him from a mile away. I'm American myself. And I'm not giving up the opportunity to mod you troll because you're pointing out the parallels between our democratic society and that of a communist one, I would've modded you troll for being so ignorant as to think that we Americans don't already know.
Americans are smarter than you think, some of us anyway. Most the smartasses you see making comments like the one you're criticizing are exactly that: intelligent, sourly satirical Americans pissed about the situation their government is putting them in and the fact that there's not really anything they can do about it. Fixed elections, politically controlled media, no responsibility for actions in the executive or legislative branch, shit's going downhill and half of us know it. We're just smart enough not to depress ourselves over it like most of you european pussies who mope and bitch about every little fucking thing.
Get one thing straight from now on, Americans aren't stupid, ignorant or weak in any way, shape or form. But we are stubborn, cocky and rude.
There's a reason why Occam's razor is such an integral part of scientific philosophy.
Which I assume you take to mean: "All things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one."
When in reality, Occams Razor states: "Though shalt not pluralize needlessly."
The former is what everyone assumes to be Occam's Razor. It's a travesty, really.
Age is not a concern here, parenting is.
I'm sick and god-damned of hearing about a minor's age in reference to their capability to perform task A or B. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that only 2 reasons exist for a 16 year old being unfit to drive a car: parents, or retardation.
Let's face the facts folks, if you can teach a kid respect for a gun, you can do the same with a car. It's those idiot fucks who think that a simple driving class at the local teen pregnancy capitol of a highschool is going to do the job that are responsible for accidents like this. Was I cocky when I was driving my LeBaron around fresh after getting my license? Yes, was I stupid enough to do what they did? Not without fearing a holy ass beating from my parents.
I got into an accident 3 months after I got my license, the fucker plowed into me in NORMAL traffic, we're talking driving down a road without a single traffic light or stop sign in the way, going 45 MPH. And this was a major city road, trust my word when I say it was his fault. I promptly honked him over to the nearest gas station, got out of the car, called the police and in an even quicker manner WHOOOPED HIS FUCKING ASS when he pulled out a fake ID and had no insurance. Slashed his tires and confiscated his wallet afterwards to prevent his escape. Walked away with an award for capturing an identity thief and got a bonus on my insurance rates. I was just barely 16, had my license for 3 months, and had never yet broken the speed limit. Who was it that I thank for that insight? My parents, the father who put the fear of god in me when taking me out for my hours and my mother who patiently reminded me of driving etiquette when out on the town. Only parents are responsible for this, not video games.
I'd mod you insightful if you weren't a moron.
Let's start off by getting one thing out of the way: I would love nothing more than to turn that monkey of a president we have into a red stain in the wall behind him, but I'm intelligent enough to know that would do more harm than good. I hate the war in Iraq, the pipelines in Afghanistan, the people we trained running all around Mexico, Morocco, UAE and London; after Russia's foray into the middle east failed. I hate the fact that good Marines and sappy-ass Army Reservists are dying for a cause they don't feel too strongly about, that my tax dollars are paying for roughly 1,200 Americans a year to die bloody or painful deaths; but that's reality.
Now let's get another thing out of the way. We are the top dog. This country is king. As such we are exposed to greater threat and even more animosity than the rest. Iran is one of those rabid dogs you shoot on sight. Problem is, we can't justify it until we see them frothing at the mouth. Put it this way, it's a people most proud of a heritage, a heritage that just happens to be one of the bloodiest and most violent peoples ever the walk the earth. We're talking about the Persians, people. The very same that wooped some crusading ass, invented the best steel of it's time strictly for the purpose of cleanly taking off spaulded arms, and currently talks of armageddon and ruling the earth. Yeah, the next door neighbor you always see polishing his rifle and drinking a beer. Scary. Do you want that crazy, eccentric, opinionated biggot with a nuclear weapon? Hell no.
You lost all credibility by uttering four words: "as a trained physicist"
Physicists, biologists, chemists, engineers; none are trained. They are educated.
There are other issues to consider as well. Think the "Big One" scenario.
The way things are now, mankind is SCREWED if society collapses in any way, shape or form. WW3, aftermath; everything's gone to hell in a handbasket and the people left are trying to put the pieces back together. Problem, no way to resurrect infrastructure. Energy is provided via a very complicated, specialized process, maybe only %.5 of the population is able to facilitate it. After swimming out of arizona bay, there's no power to keep you warm; what for lack of coal supply chains and personnel able to run the plant. Wouldn't be the case with advanced nuclear power, turn-key operated reactors would be infinitely easy to get up and running and *keep* running until more personnel can be trained to handle it.
Nuclear energy is a good way to go in regards to keeping mankind alive in a near-extinction scenario. Now if we could come up with an easily maintained method of transportation.........
All the parts of the key that opens the gate have to be collected and assembled.
C'mon, do you honestly expect things to be THAT easy after having played Diablo 2?
They almost are synonymous.
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That is about the biggest stereotype I've ever heard. Of all the people I've crawled with, only ONE, I repeat ONE of them even knew what Linux was. He so happened to hate it's guts and even snears at me for having turned my gaming computer into a SuSe box even tho I woop his ass at every game we play; while running Linux.
I've played dice games with many, many people, most of them were hardly computer literate. Even more of them are of the assumption that Windows is the only important part of their computer. Playing a tabletop RPG does not a techie make
First step:
Find a group. This is actually pretty easy, just ask around; there are also mail lists online, I found my current group on a forum called Access Denied. You do however, need to find a group of "real" people. There are D&D players out there who take the game way too seriously and look at it as a way to become a god in their own little worlds, where noone else can compromise them. These people are bad, mace them on sight (hehe, good pun) and quickly report them to the NSA. These people are most commonly referred to as "Meta-" or "Power-" followed by either "gamer", "tard", "fuck" or "loser".
A good D&D session should seem to anyone watching who has no idea what D&D is themself like a bunch of people sitting around a table shooting the shit and sharing jokes. It's a game, you're supposed to have fun. If you sit down with a group and you feel as if you have a heavy burdon on you to pick up the game quickly and turn your character into the best damage dealer in the team, walk away from the group. Find people who are easy going, have respectable jobs, don't live in their parent's basement and like to get the group together for other things besides a D&D session. These are the kind of people who will take the time to answer your questions and even go a little out of their way to show you neat little tricks within the system to make the game more fun. Your DM, the person who dictates the game and presents you with the world that your character will interact with; NEEDS to be a cool guy. As much as the people you're playing with are important to having fun, the DM is equally if not moreso. A good DM is not afraid to kill an entire party if they do something stupid, on the same note a good DM is not afraid to outright kick a player out if he is a pain in the sides of the rest of the players. The DM maintains the balance of the game, he dictates the pace, story, challenges and thus the fun. You should try to stay away from DM's that seem like to type to cheat at video games or lie to their mothers, I'll tell you why in a second.
Now to give you a better idea what to look for, I'll illustrate the experience a good D&D game should be:
You start out at Level 1. You're a peon, an ant, an insignificant little spec in the universe that won't affect any change whatsoever if you were to storm the Baron's keep screaming your lungs out this instant. You have found yourself going on a trek with a group of other insignificant specs. You run into a couple battles, brigands trying to waylay you or what not, and have learned from your experiences. By the time you get where you're going you're level 2 or 3. You still aren't bad ass, your party relies on wit and hair-brained schemes to pull of what you've been tasked or have tasked yourself to do. If you're level 5 by the end of the first session, don't come back for the second, D&D is a game of patience, if you're playing bi-weekly it should take about a year to get to 13th or 14th level. There are 20 levels in D&D, you should not be reading Epic Level Handbooks unless you've been playing in the same world for years. As I said, this game's about having fun, but it's also about telling a story. A campaign (That is the term for a group progressing from 1st level to the End Game) should seem like an epic novel. Think Lord of the Rings, for that is what this game was modeled after. Kingdoms should rise and fall, gods fall from the heavens, dragons slain, tyrannical emperors crushed in the couple of years (game time) the players have lived to affect change around them. Certain players will become kings or tyrants themselves, a good D&D group has a sense of omniscience of them as far as the game is concerned, they know they have a while yet to go and should be in no rush to be 20th level. As a matter of fact, I am one of many D&D players that feels a group should almost never reach epic levels (20th and beyond) in any campaign, ever. A good scope of how you should view levels would be this: You've never practiced martial arts i
I just got out of a relationship with a girl that was a part of the paid popular night life. Liquor promotions, Entertainment Sales, sensual massage, etc. etc..
You'd be quite surprised what a woman relevates to whoring. I find that the general consensus among young women is that as long as they aren't getting paid for "Happy endings", they're working a legitimate job. Same goes for strippers, they don't feel as if they're whores, they think they're giving an audience what they want to see; nothing more. In this day and age, socially acceptable jobs and hobbies have come a long way. Used to be pen and paper games such as Dungeons&Dragons was the work of the devil, now it's for the most part widely accepted and even a curiosity for most people. Walking around downtown with tops off (bikini's replacing) used to be something only gangsters and mobsters do, now it's commonplace on hot days. Socially acceptable has come a long way and women are very keen to this.
But on a more relative note, I myself use an online dating site and have found it to be quite worth my time. Have already met with several attractive and intelligent women, and am meeting with another tomorrow. Now here's something you'd never guess, alot of women are using sites such as Match.com to meet men for no strings attached sex. It varies between site to site, but women too these days are looking for NSA sex, and using the fact they're rarities to their advantage and boning only the most attractive guys they can find on the site. I've met a couple of these women and was surprised to see that they were actually quite attractive! Imagine the look on my face when they say "You ready to go fuck?"
Personally, I promptly turned around and walked away, there's no way to know how many diseases they have if they had been on a romp with every attractive guy on the site. As I said, socially acceptable has changed in this day and age, and women are very keen to that fact.
YOU are a cad/cam program my friend. CNC machines are controlled by a universal machine programming language called G/M code.
.4 inches deep into the center of a circular part. Fairly simple, neh?
It's also probably the simplest script language known to man. Learn how to use it yourself instead of spending several thousand dollars on a CAD/CAM program.
Here's an example of your typical part program for a CNC machine:
G72G81G90G91
G0T1M06
S1200M03
X0Y0Z.1M08
G83X0Z.5Z.1Z.1
G0Z3.0
G0M22
That program just drilled a hole