Well, about 2/3 of that amount goes DIRECTLY back into the US economy to pay for things like radars, jets, missile interceptors, etc. It's not a charity payment to Israel as you insinuate
How is giving them the money to buy weapons from us economically feasible? For that matter, how is it any different from just giving them the weapons to begin with?
And by the way, our mid-east intel would seem to be seriously lacking at this time, as indicated by the news.
I know you meant delay between shots, but DooM didn't keep track of rounds of ammo in and out of the weapon, it just subtracted rounds from your total ammo each time you shot. If I remember correctly, the shotty did have reloading animation, though, which slowed down the rate of fire. The first fps game I remember seeing that kept track of both bullets in the clip and a separate stockpile, requiring reloading, was Goldeneye for N64. I'm sure it's not the first though.
See, I don't know how old you are, but I really wouldn't be surprised if you were in your early twenties.
I agree. You can often gauge someone's age by their reaction to a war, due simply to selective service. Those who risk nothing by supporting the war are, of course, it's strongest supporters. Do notice that only one member of congress has offspring in the military. (Offtopic: I sometimes picture congress as a coven of vampires, growing fat on the blood of the young....)
Would that be a recount by Florida's official vote counter (who was affiliated with Bush's campaign, and hence inherently biased), or an actual independent recount? From what I hear, Gore won all of those.
If the war in Iraq was truly about liberation, then any number of other sovereign states should've had priority. If the war in Iraq was about "weapons of mass destruction", then we would've found some by now. If the war in Iraq was about "ties to al-qaeda", then we should've hit the Saudis first, 15 of the 19 highjackers on 9-11 were Saudis. If the war was waged simply to procure cheap oil, then companies such as Haliburton would be clocking obscene profits in Iraq right now... hey...
It is my understanding that the reason so many people run Win NT as root is that lots of programs require root privileges. If you're already running buggy, insecure code as root, why not go whole hog and login as root too? At least that's the mindset.
While I agree with you in theory, in practice, I don't see any miracle technology doing away with the discrepancies between the haves and have-nots. For example, look at the torture in Abu Ghraib prison... they were caught red-handed, thanks to the mighty digital camera (Cheney went off on a hilarious rant about this, btw), and what happens? Not a whole lot, except some buck passing. I suppose the moral is that all knowledge is power, but unexercised power is moot.
Ah, for shame. Beastie Boys are perhaps the last bastion of real hip hop on the top 40. Not that I listen to radio, mind you, I just prefer the waves going through my body to carry the real shit, as opposed to P-Diddy.
Your comment is a generalization ("All rock bands..."), and therefore false. There are many musicians who play solely out of love for the craft. The Grateful Dead spring immediately to mind. I'm sure most dance DJ's feel this way, as there is very little cult of personality attached to techno music. Macarena notwithstanding.
If you haven't already, check out Grand Buffet. While they are not Beasties clones, they fix the same jones that Check Ya Head did. I recommend Sparkle Classic and Cigarette Beach as introductory listening.
All discussions of privacy seem to evolve into one person saying "I value my privacy more than I value a nanny government.", and another person responding, "If you've done nothing wrong, then you've no need for privacy."
Here, then, is a list of instances where no illegal activity is occurring, but most people would prefer privacy:
1) Bathroom breaks 2) When the van's a rockin' 3) Nose picking 4) Writing in a journal 5) Meditation 6) Migraine headaches 7) Donating sperm 8) Getting a "Nosy Feds Suck" tattoo
As you can see, just because something is not illegal does not mean it should be public knowledge (although voyeur pr0n freaks may disagree.)
An interesting thought. I will ponder that myself. Reading a book on nonlinear equations and chaos math right now, it relates to this topic.
To be able to generate the entire bookshelf in all its complexity on demand, then you will have still to store all the information about the bookshelf. If you only need the bookshelf to give the "read for fun" and "study" options when you click on it, when you can throw away a lot of information and simplify your model. But it is obvious that the only perfect model of a thing is the thing itself. And that thing is the same size as the thing it models. Anything less, and you're oversimplifying. Anything more and you're wasting your time. Since mere mortals can't build a 1:1 scale model of the universe, experimenters make lots of simplifications in their models, which usually come back to haunt them down the road.
First, I am confused. GI Joes came with two different varieties of flashy things that you might be referring to:
1) Polarized plastic with an two images drawn in alternating lines behind it, so that when tilted, animation is viewed. I believe the action figure Crystal Ball used one of these as a weapon. These are not 3d.
2) Actual holographs printed on the stickers that came with vehicles, etc. These are 3d, in the sense that you can, to a degree limited by perspective, see behind objects depicted in these holographs; there is actual depth.
I am reminded of the scene in The Little Prince where the character from outer space looks at a drawing of a box and states that it is a picture of a sheep. When the narrator corrects him, the alien says, "Well, there's a sheep sleeping in the box."
Probably mangled the quote, but you get the drift. Holograms allow you to see their contents from many perspectives within 3d space. And as long as that definitition is met, then they qualify as 3d. Even if the viewing medium is 2d.
Much of Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" lineup consists of 15 minute long shows, with no commercial breaks. There are, of course, commercials between shows, but surely you have better things to do with your time than watch those.
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Well, about 2/3 of that amount goes DIRECTLY back into the US economy to pay for things like radars, jets, missile interceptors, etc. It's not a charity payment to Israel as you insinuate
How is giving them the money to buy weapons from us economically feasible? For that matter, how is it any different from just giving them the weapons to begin with?
And by the way, our mid-east intel would seem to be seriously lacking at this time, as indicated by the news.
Triptych is a lot like tetris attack with physics, and ridiculously fun.
I know you meant delay between shots, but DooM didn't keep track of rounds of ammo in and out of the weapon, it just subtracted rounds from your total ammo each time you shot. If I remember correctly, the shotty did have reloading animation, though, which slowed down the rate of fire. The first fps game I remember seeing that kept track of both bullets in the clip and a separate stockpile, requiring reloading, was Goldeneye for N64. I'm sure it's not the first though.
and, while we're straying into new age navel-gazing, why not add the bible? it's certainly changed a lot of lives.
real men make hard drive platter launchers.
See, I don't know how old you are, but I really wouldn't be surprised if you were in your early twenties.
I agree. You can often gauge someone's age by their reaction to a war, due simply to selective service. Those who risk nothing by supporting the war are, of course, it's strongest supporters. Do notice that only one member of congress has offspring in the military. (Offtopic: I sometimes picture congress as a coven of vampires, growing fat on the blood of the young....)
It's like weblogging, but with a cat instead of a web. Hope that clears things up.
So are Anonymous Cowards.
Why the hell do Brits say "does" instead of the correct "do" when making overblown generalizations?
Would that be a recount by Florida's official vote counter (who was affiliated with Bush's campaign, and hence inherently biased), or an actual independent recount? From what I hear, Gore won all of those.
If the war in Iraq was truly about liberation, then any number of other sovereign states should've had priority. If the war in Iraq was about "weapons of mass destruction", then we would've found some by now. If the war in Iraq was about "ties to al-qaeda", then we should've hit the Saudis first, 15 of the 19 highjackers on 9-11 were Saudis. If the war was waged simply to procure cheap oil, then companies such as Haliburton would be clocking obscene profits in Iraq right now... hey...
Would be much better if you were to stand on this NES box instead...
Goatse.cx had its domain name suspended a while back, so go ahead and make clicky links.
It is my understanding that the reason so many people run Win NT as root is that lots of programs require root privileges. If you're already running buggy, insecure code as root, why not go whole hog and login as root too? At least that's the mindset.
While I agree with you in theory, in practice, I don't see any miracle technology doing away with the discrepancies between the haves and have-nots. For example, look at the torture in Abu Ghraib prison... they were caught red-handed, thanks to the mighty digital camera (Cheney went off on a hilarious rant about this, btw), and what happens? Not a whole lot, except some buck passing. I suppose the moral is that all knowledge is power, but unexercised power is moot.
Ah, for shame. Beastie Boys are perhaps the last bastion of real hip hop on the top 40. Not that I listen to radio, mind you, I just prefer the waves going through my body to carry the real shit, as opposed to P-Diddy.
Your comment is a generalization ("All rock bands..."), and therefore false. There are many musicians who play solely out of love for the craft. The Grateful Dead spring immediately to mind. I'm sure most dance DJ's feel this way, as there is very little cult of personality attached to techno music.
Macarena notwithstanding.
congratulations on acheiving security through hiding behind windows users.
If you haven't already, check out Grand Buffet. While they are not Beasties clones, they fix the same jones that Check Ya Head did. I recommend Sparkle Classic and Cigarette Beach as introductory listening.
All discussions of privacy seem to evolve into one person saying "I value my privacy more than I value a nanny government.", and another person responding, "If you've done nothing wrong, then you've no need for privacy."
Here, then, is a list of instances where no illegal activity is occurring, but most people would prefer privacy:
1) Bathroom breaks
2) When the van's a rockin'
3) Nose picking
4) Writing in a journal
5) Meditation
6) Migraine headaches
7) Donating sperm
8) Getting a "Nosy Feds Suck" tattoo
As you can see, just because something is not illegal does not mean it should be public knowledge (although voyeur pr0n freaks may disagree.)
An interesting thought. I will ponder that myself.
Reading a book on nonlinear equations and chaos math right now, it relates to this topic.
To be able to generate the entire bookshelf in all its complexity on demand, then you will have still to store all the information about the bookshelf. If you only need the bookshelf to give the "read for fun" and "study" options when you click on it, when you can throw away a lot of information and simplify your model. But it is obvious that the only perfect model of a thing is the thing itself. And that thing is the same size as the thing it models. Anything less, and you're oversimplifying. Anything more and you're wasting your time. Since mere mortals can't build a 1:1 scale model of the universe, experimenters make lots of simplifications in their models, which usually come back to haunt them down the road.
Freudian slip, much?
First, I am confused. GI Joes came with two different varieties of flashy things that you might be referring to:
1) Polarized plastic with an two images drawn in alternating lines behind it, so that when tilted, animation is viewed. I believe the action figure Crystal Ball used one of these as a weapon. These are not 3d.
2) Actual holographs printed on the stickers that came with vehicles, etc. These are 3d, in the sense that you can, to a degree limited by perspective, see behind objects depicted in these holographs; there is actual depth.
I am reminded of the scene in The Little Prince where the character from outer space looks at a drawing of a box and states that it is a picture of a sheep. When the narrator corrects him, the alien says, "Well, there's a sheep sleeping in the box."
Probably mangled the quote, but you get the drift. Holograms allow you to see their contents from many perspectives within 3d space. And as long as that definitition is met, then they qualify as 3d.
Even if the viewing medium is 2d.
Much of Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" lineup consists of 15 minute long shows, with no commercial breaks. There are, of course, commercials between shows, but surely you have better things to do with your time than watch those.
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