Eve, interestingly, isn't an air fighter sim in space, but rather a submarine sim in space. You get up to a max speed under thrust, you let off, you coast quickly to a stop.
Ancient Descent is the only game I'm aware of that had realistic 3D spacelike travel, with full pitch, yaw, "z minus 10 meters", etc.
As long as they agree to continue participating in carving up complete command-and-control of each other, through violence or vote, there will continue to be conflict.
Best to reduce the power of government and let people pursue their own ends.
I suspect free people in a free society will, unfettered by dictatorship, freely choose to mod my love of freedom down as "trolling".
Perhaps you missed it in 1994 when the polls closed and they went to woman-in-the-street Gwen Eiffel who immediately announced the Democrats were off to a strong evening...as the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in over 30,000 years.
You people are missing the point -- they wouldn't be arresting him for technicalities like minor parole violations except for the consequences of his exercising free speech.
That should scare the holy fucking hell out of people in a free society. Government doesn't get to do that.
Thank you. This is selective prosecution that wouldn't occur but for the outrage. As such it should be thrown out as government doesn't (in theory anyway) get to hold in reserve violations and then arrest when the person gets uppity in perfectly legal ways.
Ya but mobile phones make Slashdot topic responses fill up even faster now. I only have a few minutes after a new topic before it becomes so clogged I can no longer get +1 funnies because I'm lost in the woodwork.
On noes! This topic has 128 responses already! More first-rate humor wasted >:-(
I find it interesting you blather about a coming military threat from China and then immediately, in your next sentence, warn about the US and it's ability to continue slapping China aside if it chooses to do so. And that is your great thinking conclusion.
By the way, watch for this: Expensive cars and bleeding edge tech fans will have it first, just as happened with nav radios. This tech will then move to midline then low-end cars. Soon, only old beaters driven by poor will be without.
Along will come a pontificating politician with a government plan to equip these old cars with safer robot drivers. People will applaud.
Sci-fi and futurists have already dealt with this argument -- when robot drivers are much safer, people will start to question whether it's ethical to let humans drive.
So human drivers have about one death or fatal accident per 300 million miles? That seems awfully high and does not jive with another stat I heard years ago (which, I admit, I have never seen anywhere else) that road deaths statistically shave 6 years off the average lifespan. The latter implies something like 20 million miles lifetime, which also seems an order of magnitude too high.
"Too much speech" isn't something broken. Government restricting it is.
Why myopics are so thrilled to jump into bed with government censorship I don't know.
By the way, problems with corporate spending can be more properly lain at the feet of government having too much power to begin with rather than too much speech or too much campaign spending.
I merely look at all of human history to make this judgement rather than short term "problems" with getting my viewpoints instantiated as law over opposition.
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Eve, interestingly, isn't an air fighter sim in space, but rather a submarine sim in space. You get up to a max speed under thrust, you let off, you coast quickly to a stop.
Ancient Descent is the only game I'm aware of that had realistic 3D spacelike travel, with full pitch, yaw, "z minus 10 meters", etc.
They aired it for the same reason California has omnipresent news choppers waiting for car chases to begin.
As Shakespeare said, "As You Like It".
> The book is written in Finnish.
When did they finnish it?
As long as they agree to continue participating in carving up complete command-and-control of each other, through violence or vote, there will continue to be conflict.
Best to reduce the power of government and let people pursue their own ends.
I suspect free people in a free society will, unfettered by dictatorship, freely choose to mod my love of freedom down as "trolling".
It would be interesting to see results of blind testing of hundreds of dyslexics vs. control group, with that font and a normal one.
Perhaps you missed it in 1994 when the polls closed and they went to woman-in-the-street Gwen Eiffel who immediately announced the Democrats were off to a strong evening...as the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in over 30,000 years.
> asuperbright comet, just discovered streaking near Saturn
Sweet -- look at the tail on that streaker!
I have no problem with any of that.
You people are missing the point -- they wouldn't be arresting him for technicalities like minor parole violations except for the consequences of his exercising free speech.
That should scare the holy fucking hell out of people in a free society. Government doesn't get to do that.
Women need less money because they tend to marry men who earn more than they do on average.
For men it's the reverse -- they need more because they tend to marry women who earn less than they do on average.
For starters:
Brian, reading note from his babymomma: "P.S. Will you write me a letter of recommendation for the University of Phoenix?"
Brian, aside to himself: No. No, I'm not gonna go out on a limb like that.
I'm still irritated they're misusing the name Orion, which is already associated with a particular type of spacecraft.
Thank you. This is selective prosecution that wouldn't occur but for the outrage. As such it should be thrown out as government doesn't (in theory anyway) get to hold in reserve violations and then arrest when the person gets uppity in perfectly legal ways.
No, Parliamentary "Iniquity" sounds about right. Go look it up.
"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."
Ya but mobile phones make Slashdot topic responses fill up even faster now. I only have a few minutes after a new topic before it becomes so clogged I can no longer get +1 funnies because I'm lost in the woodwork.
On noes! This topic has 128 responses already! More first-rate humor wasted >:-(
I find it interesting you blather about a coming military threat from China and then immediately, in your next sentence, warn about the US and it's ability to continue slapping China aside if it chooses to do so. And that is your great thinking conclusion.
Swell.
> Mongol politicians can lose votes for 'looking too Chinese'
So Mongolia-to-China is kind of like Canada to the US.
I mean, you didn't think the border agents were being rude because they were Nazi lackies, do you? They are trying to fluster you.
Ahh, I've said too much.
It doesn't have to work well to be useful and dissuade terrorists.
See also the fraud that is the lie detector.
By the way, watch for this: Expensive cars and bleeding edge tech fans will have it first, just as happened with nav radios. This tech will then move to midline then low-end cars. Soon, only old beaters driven by poor will be without.
Along will come a pontificating politician with a government plan to equip these old cars with safer robot drivers. People will applaud.
Sci-fi and futurists have already dealt with this argument -- when robot drivers are much safer, people will start to question whether it's ethical to let humans drive.
See also robot surgeons.
So human drivers have about one death or fatal accident per 300 million miles? That seems awfully high and does not jive with another stat I heard years ago (which, I admit, I have never seen anywhere else) that road deaths statistically shave 6 years off the average lifespan. The latter implies something like 20 million miles lifetime, which also seems an order of magnitude too high.
> She suggested that we try to write up a brief description of what we wanted
Too late, based on that single, huge bertha paragraph. Check out the English department while you're at it.
"Too much speech" isn't something broken. Government restricting it is.
Why myopics are so thrilled to jump into bed with government censorship I don't know.
By the way, problems with corporate spending can be more properly lain at the feet of government having too much power to begin with rather than too much speech or too much campaign spending.
I merely look at all of human history to make this judgement rather than short term "problems" with getting my viewpoints instantiated as law over opposition.
> underwater 'street view'
Watch out for the naked clown fish.
Lab-grown leather? Good! There are many cow souls in heaven who are offended their skin is used for sexual perversions by other species.
Of course, lab-grown will have a much lower psycho-sexual cachet, so maybe the cow souls will still have to lump it.