> the Chinese are stealing technology, a discussion and argument that bears no logic whatsoever
Indeed, they never steal stuff, they just request the files so they can build and test it. And falling labor costs looks good for the next couple quarterly reports.
Just go in a gay porn chatroom, that will reduce the odds of someone monitoring live in they have the wrong supervisor. The signal-to-noise ratio will be better than steganography anyway.
Whoa! What else do you want? Tell the kids when they suck? Tell bad drivers the rollover was their fault? Admissions of guilt as part of multi-million dollar settlements?
Keep dreaming. Bloating phones with money-making unstable privacy-invading tracking crapware is their first amendment right, and we are required to be glad for it, because it saves us the hassle of ordering our unlocked phones online.
There might be life on/in Venus. Just not apparently the water/carbon based life that we're so egocentrically looking for. It's hard to imagine other forms of life and go expensively looking for them on a hunch that they may exist. That doesn't mean they don't.
The best thing that could happen to Midwest geography would be growing a mountain range... An east-west one, so that it'd be tolerable in winter, as long as you're south of it, and tolerable in summer, as long as you're north.
Once again, let me look around for something people have been doing and go to patent it "on a server" "based on online behavior" or "using a smartphone"
I can't blame them for abusing the system, I can only blame the idiots who won't fix the system.
If the humans were capable of cooperation, we'd spend a few decades building a solar ring around the equator (or both tropics) and have enough permanent solar power to distribute to the whole planet.
It's a technical challenge, but when you check the numbers it would be doable with the current technology. Even the cost of making it resists hurricanes and cross the pacific is tiny (a few US defense budgets), compared to the sheer impossibility to make homo sapiens sapiens agree on working together.
You may have forgotten how the first edition did have spec for all the major devils and demons. That's what freaked out short-sighted people. To them, it wasn't about how you were going to kick demon/devil butt, as much as the horror of seeing kids throwing scary names around.
When Harry Potter came out, an otherwise very smart engineer, who spent too much time in church, told me that they had a discussion about the books and their influence on children. They had a witchcraft specialist (I think he said a witch) comment on how the spells JKR wrote down were too close to the real magic and children shouldn't be familiar with them or run around casting them at each other. I honestly wish I was making this up.
So yeah, the bad rep of the game was because some people get scared at the mere mention of some dark elements of their religious mythos.
So there's water on earth and there was water on Mars. There is water all over the moons of the outer planets too, and lots of comets made of the stuff. Ceres is a planet wannabe which didn't quite reach critical mass to aggregate the asteroid belt fully onto itself, especially given the overbearing presence of its giant neighbor.
Can someone give me one good reason to not have water on Ceres, so that I may marvel at the fact that there is?
While that may be true, you're a geek, not a baker. Most bakers are not geeks. Just record yourself while you're trying to convince a random one, and send us the link.
Technically, everything you ever perceive is in the past. More often than not, two simultaneous perceptions of the same thing are not even the same past.
How brains manage to correct for both the perception latencies and the action latency, so that we can interact with our environment, is pretty amazing.
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> the Chinese are stealing technology, a discussion and argument that bears no logic whatsoever
Indeed, they never steal stuff, they just request the files so they can build and test it.
And falling labor costs looks good for the next couple quarterly reports.
Why would they steal, when we're greedy?
The problem with MAD is that it applies between the big guys to keep their sovereign position over the small guys.
Just go in a gay porn chatroom, that will reduce the odds of someone monitoring live in they have the wrong supervisor.
The signal-to-noise ratio will be better than steganography anyway.
Phone lines, but only if you speak in Navajo.
But but but ... who's mining your browsing data then?
Whoa! What else do you want?
Tell the kids when they suck? Tell bad drivers the rollover was their fault? Admissions of guilt as part of multi-million dollar settlements?
Too much reality is bad for you, mate...
Keep dreaming.
Bloating phones with money-making unstable privacy-invading tracking crapware is their first amendment right, and we are required to be glad for it, because it saves us the hassle of ordering our unlocked phones online.
There might be life on/in Venus. Just not apparently the water/carbon based life that we're so egocentrically looking for.
It's hard to imagine other forms of life and go expensively looking for them on a hunch that they may exist. That doesn't mean they don't.
Yes, I guess someone at Marvel grew up in the midwest.
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Keep your hand on the rod, and your finger on the line; you would see better from above the bridge.
Have they eliminated the Area51-based top-secret earthquake generator yet?
Your parent's basement. That's why so many geeks stay in there as long as they can.
The best thing that could happen to Midwest geography would be growing a mountain range... An east-west one, so that it'd be tolerable in winter, as long as you're south of it, and tolerable in summer, as long as you're north.
I'm going to park in front of the USPTO and check whether all the employees have mysteriously received both a free Iphone and a free Nexus....
Once again, let me look around for something people have been doing and go to patent it "on a server" "based on online behavior" or "using a smartphone"
I can't blame them for abusing the system, I can only blame the idiots who won't fix the system.
If the humans were capable of cooperation, we'd spend a few decades building a solar ring around the equator (or both tropics) and have enough permanent solar power to distribute to the whole planet.
It's a technical challenge, but when you check the numbers it would be doable with the current technology. Even the cost of making it resists hurricanes and cross the pacific is tiny (a few US defense budgets), compared to the sheer impossibility to make homo sapiens sapiens agree on working together.
Ever heard of induction?
The main problem with induction is the size of the cabling, if you do want as much power as a good burner. Otherwise, it's instant-on/off.
Oh, you also can't light your alcohol with a flick of the wrist when making a flambe' , but then again you can't light your oil by accident either.
I'm pretty sure that the first Europeans to get to California used sails.
We could have a fun comparison: TARGET vs TEPCO !
You may have forgotten how the first edition did have spec for all the major devils and demons.
That's what freaked out short-sighted people. To them, it wasn't about how you were going to kick demon/devil butt, as much as the horror of seeing kids throwing scary names around.
When Harry Potter came out, an otherwise very smart engineer, who spent too much time in church, told me that they had a discussion about the books and their influence on children. They had a witchcraft specialist (I think he said a witch) comment on how the spells JKR wrote down were too close to the real magic and children shouldn't be familiar with them or run around casting them at each other.
I honestly wish I was making this up.
So yeah, the bad rep of the game was because some people get scared at the mere mention of some dark elements of their religious mythos.
I'm still waiting for the headline: "Protesters show up at the doorstep of NSA and CIA engineers"
Soft targets, because it says "brave", not stupid.
So there's water on earth and there was water on Mars. There is water all over the moons of the outer planets too, and lots of comets made of the stuff.
Ceres is a planet wannabe which didn't quite reach critical mass to aggregate the asteroid belt fully onto itself, especially given the overbearing presence of its giant neighbor.
Can someone give me one good reason to not have water on Ceres, so that I may marvel at the fact that there is?
While that may be true, you're a geek, not a baker.
Most bakers are not geeks.
Just record yourself while you're trying to convince a random one, and send us the link.
This is just patently abs.. ALL GLORY TO THE GREAT HYPNOGALAXY!
(and a few words for the all-caps filter)
Technically, everything you ever perceive is in the past. More often than not, two simultaneous perceptions of the same thing are not even the same past.
How brains manage to correct for both the perception latencies and the action latency, so that we can interact with our environment, is pretty amazing.