And the SSN doesn't identify a person. It identifies a set of financial records in databases. And your DNA doesn't identify a person because you could be twins, just like there could be more than one person in a house.
It's times like these Slashdot needs to get with the modern world and allow a rolleyes emoticon.
In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system
Yeah, I can see how someone might forget about that little detail before ordering two billion dollars worth of equipment. Wow.
As I do from time to time, I shall explain what's going on for people attempting to grok the situmication.
Remember all his damned ads on TV? They were designed to get people behind him, and thus coerce politicians seeking election to help accomplish this transmission system. Money, eminent domain, whatever he needs.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict, from this theory (remember science?) that he didn't get what he needed. Politicians don't like people doing a populist end-run around their usual kickback MO.
I can see getting the camera part confused, but the "in" part?!?!?:)
As mentioned, "camera" means room, or chamber. The word for picture-taking camera comes from the term "camera obscura", which is literally a box (a little room, hehe) with a pinhole for light. The guy in Girl With a Pearl Earring uses an original one, and the "pinhole viewer" Misters Science create to watch a solar eclipse or sunspots is the same thing. Slap some film or a CCD in there and it's modern.
One out of three will probably have their mind blown by learning that "car" is short for "carriage". And that is derived from the same root word as "carry". Carry-iage mechanism. Business derives from busy-ness.
Some of these qua business strategies are decent, but as rules of thumb for D&D, they're sorely lacking.
Feed the DM. Gamers
Bribe those in power, got it.
One spell, used well, can be more powerful than an entire book full of spells. I first met Ivan when he showed up for a
game in Steve's standard D&D world. Ivan drew up a first-level wizard character who had almost no hit-points and only one
wimpy spell: cast an illusion. Whereupon Ivan's character cast an illusion of a 5th-level illusionist... and proceeded to
run that powerful "5th level illusionist" through the rest of the game. Years later, Ivan played in a play-by-mail dungeon
(yes, children, we did those things before e-mail) in which the DM permitted custom spells. Ivan's "swap" spell seemed
Mostly Harmless: Transpose a 1" cube of anything with another 1" cube of anything. Whereupon Ivan set up a magical FedEx
business (for very short messages) and a sideline of an assassin-business (swap a square inch of heart muscle with anything
else; who could tell that murder was done?). This taught me to get everything possible out of the tools at my disposal. It
also taught me to expand my notion of "What do I have, and what can I do with it?"
These are treated as "exploits" in online games, because they actually work and are fun. The game disables anything that actually works, such as a sword. You didn't think a caster, who can't wear armor because it interferes with their delicate hand movements could continue his delicate movements, so easily disrupted, when a 10 foot tall ogre was swatting at them with a sword, did you?
And what would be the business parallel to some little thing done well being more powerful than tons of money and power?
"Hey, I bought this drill and metal saw at the hardware store. Let's sneak into the bank late at night and use it well!"
It's better to out-smart an orc than to fight one. Young D&D players get into the game because they want an endless
repetition of "Find a monster. Kill it. Get its treasure." But your character (and career) can get hurt that way. If instead
you set up a situation in which the orcs think that they were attacked by the goblins, the orcs will blow up the goblin
castle in retaliation. That leaves your party to walk through afterward, picking up the spoils (and the experience points).
"Let's you and him fight" is a very effective business strategy... or it's far safer for you, anyway.
It's better still to have a brain and set up your character to actually be effective in the limits of the rules. This isn't "metagaming", i.e. taking advantage of knowledge and behavior outside the game itself (like knowing the details of some monster you're not supposed to or what's around the corner on this module). It's just realizing that a fighter is a fighter, and a wizard, a wizard. Everyone else is a librarian or carwash attendant, and would do predictably well on an adventure.
Oh, and yes, one can be just as clever in figuring out "alternative solutions". Guess who'd be the better thief character, too?
And for the above example, if they literally blew up the castle, most of the good loot would be destroyed. And if they just attacked and killed everyone, they'd take the loot, leaving precious little for you. I don't think Nomad would be pleased.
"I'm the DM. I'm not there." D&D players often turn to the DM to ask for information about the universe. ("Is the person
offering me this three-headed dog trustworthy?") The DM often doesn't know, or he isn't telling; just because he puts
something in your path doesn't mean you need to trust it, accept it, fight it, or buy it. Experimentation without
investigation can be very painful; learn to ask questions. Steve didn't ask a single clarifying question about the beautiful
fairy-fly before he decided to catch it... and it burned a hole straight through his
Not only that, but figuring out how to maximize things and get around the rules and other things "the devs never imagined" is part of the game, and an attractive one.
EverQuest was notorious for slapping players for this. Casting spells at NPCs that couldn't get to you, or could but did so in a roundabout way, both because of stupid AI, was seen as an exploit. More modern games (e.g. CoH) let you take advantage of this because that's how the game was designed.
EverQuest even had the ludicrous situation of introducing a floating island zone, then ended up disabling the floating spell (in which you dropped fairly fast off a cliff anyway, think feather fall) because with legal speed boosts, people could reach other islands "not in the planned order".
So the perfect power for that zone got disabled for it because of crap planning. Good riddence to 'em. These are the people who introduced the first popular, true 3D world (no, it wasn't Meridian, sorry) and then made 3/4 the population sit there for 3/4 of the time with a book in their face so they couldn't see the 3D world.
Had they not been the only game in town, they'd have tanked miserably.
Well, you know, not too many "chicks" wanna sit around for 9 months in the cities. Fights to the death can be hard on the little guy. I'm also not sure how good their infinitesimal and dependent CON values do w.r.t. repeated resurrections.
Notice also how the "commoner" called him a bad name and just...left. He exercised freedom which the game largely enforces.
This is why freedom is not just a separate thing from democracy, but is more important than it. 99% of humanity's problems are traceable to someone picking up a gun or club to bypass the target's freedom. Putting this under the mild yoke of democracy only partially alleviates it, and rarely expands it, or even maintains it. Certainly few politicians yammer about freedom, instead touting the greatness of democracy. Touting freedom suggests limiting their power, which is not what they're in the game for.
ironyn incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected results
It's somewhat incongruous that a post about a trolling troll was downmodded as troll. Is it enough?
You can't tp people unless 1. they're on your team, or 2. you're in a PvP zone and they're of the opposing faction (a hero to your villain or vice versa.)
The second I presume was not the case (can't get to the web site because it gives...news) and TP'ing an enemy in front of guards is fair game.
So I presume he was a villain and just TP'ing someone in his group in front of some big reds (or purps, in the case of CoX.) But he's a villain.
More power to him! I suggest it's not even griefing for the redside (villain side.)
City of Heroes is busted now, anyway. They made a wonderful feature, create your own missions, and surprise! Now 90%+ of the people never run normal missions, instead joining "level 54 boss" missions that are packed with level 54 (highest normal NPC) bosses (a decent 1-on-1 tussle for a character), said bosses being of custom design by the player mission architect to be pretty much as chumpy as possible.
I solo archvillains, yet I join a normal mission group, since they'e hard to find, to help a guy finish off an "elite boss", which is about 1/20th as tough. If your "reputation" (your difficulty setting used for your instances) is set low enough, the AV at the end turns into an elite boss.
sigh
Does any game have a "pure badass" server where everything is extra hard? I'm getting tired of sitting down at the table for a delicious Italian meal and being served Spaghetti-O's. "I hate invasions because they interrupt my journey to meet my friend to grind some AE 54s." Ok, then.
> "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That > was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on > the Walkman for a genre-specific equalizer, but later I discovered that it was in > fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
Wait until he finds out his penis isn't really to give his hand something to do.
2. They mean 20-30 lbs. overweight, not 100. I.e. the peak of the longevity Bell curve is about 20-40 pounds more than the supposed medically desirable weight. Then it goes back down again.
The guy giving the South Park kids a run for their money on WoW has a life expectancy significantly lower than the "normal" weight people, who are lower than the "overweight but not obese" people.
Oh, I forgot! Also you can buy, for 10,000 influence i.e. gold i.e. dollars, which is a very low price in CoH, a 1-use teleporter clickie to teleport back to your favorite black market (evil) or Wentworth's auction area.
City of Heroes has high speed travel and true 3D travel. They also have a rapid transit system to jump to other zones faster. And it starts at level 14, which is about 1 day's "hard" work, or 2-3 if you're taking it easy and actually...enjoying the game.
And then they allowed supergroup (i.e. guild) bases and you could put teleporters in there, and you got a base teleporter as a vet reward if you subscribed long enough, which by that time, many had. Getting the "beacon" for each zone so your base could teleport it became a sub-game.
Then came Oroboros, which was a floaty island realm that served as a hub for time travel. You got "the secret", which was an instant teleport to Oroboros, right at its own teleporter, which you could immediately take to teleport to most zones in the game.
So without much work, I now carry two teleporter clickies that teleport me to one of two hubs where I can then teleport pretty much anywhere. I use them when flying or super-jumping in excess of 60 miles per hour gets boring.
Tell me how awesome that level 40 horse which multiplies your speed by, umm, 1.6, is again?
I'll hold my breath waiting for the determination if this is "better for the artists/writers" or not.
In any case, I thought this was already settled. It's only illegal for me to tell you there's a crack house over there where you can get crack for $50/whatever if I'm involved in the operation. If I'm just observant, then no problem, freedom of speech and all.
The purpose of this "national discussion" is to generate sob stories to proceed with nationalized health care as planned. It's like Azmeenerbijad or Saddam having an election, then, surprise, they win.
Perhaps not fears of your own government, but certain neighboring governments have been...problematic to your and your neighbor nations within the past 100 years.
> but plenty of politically motivated, anti-science trolls have claimed > EVERYTHING can be explained by natural variation.
One also has to watch out for politically motivated, anti-science trolls who claim EVERYTHING can be solved by massive regulation and control...by them.
Predictions such as a billion people moving inland slowly over a century are far less a problem than, say, slowed or retrograde growth ala the former USSR or North Korea.
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And the SSN doesn't identify a person. It identifies a set of financial records in databases. And your DNA doesn't identify a person because you could be twins, just like there could be more than one person in a house.
It's times like these Slashdot needs to get with the modern world and allow a rolleyes emoticon.
Hmmm. No jackhammers or giant hands. I guess Green Lantern is a pretty stupid dude after all.
As I do from time to time, I shall explain what's going on for people attempting to grok the situmication.
Remember all his damned ads on TV? They were designed to get people behind him, and thus coerce politicians seeking election to help accomplish this transmission system. Money, eminent domain, whatever he needs.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict, from this theory (remember science?) that he didn't get what he needed. Politicians don't like people doing a populist end-run around their usual kickback MO.
I can see getting the camera part confused, but the "in" part?!?!? :)
As mentioned, "camera" means room, or chamber. The word for picture-taking camera comes from the term "camera obscura", which is literally a box (a little room, hehe) with a pinhole for light. The guy in Girl With a Pearl Earring uses an original one, and the "pinhole viewer" Misters Science create to watch a solar eclipse or sunspots is the same thing. Slap some film or a CCD in there and it's modern.
One out of three will probably have their mind blown by learning that "car" is short for "carriage". And that is derived from the same root word as "carry". Carry-iage mechanism. Business derives from busy-ness.
Some of these qua business strategies are decent, but as rules of thumb for D&D, they're sorely lacking.
Bribe those in power, got it.
game in Steve's standard D&D world. Ivan drew up a first-level wizard character who had almost no hit-points and only one
wimpy spell: cast an illusion. Whereupon Ivan's character cast an illusion of a 5th-level illusionist... and proceeded to
run that powerful "5th level illusionist" through the rest of the game. Years later, Ivan played in a play-by-mail dungeon
(yes, children, we did those things before e-mail) in which the DM permitted custom spells. Ivan's "swap" spell seemed
Mostly Harmless: Transpose a 1" cube of anything with another 1" cube of anything. Whereupon Ivan set up a magical FedEx
business (for very short messages) and a sideline of an assassin-business (swap a square inch of heart muscle with anything
else; who could tell that murder was done?). This taught me to get everything possible out of the tools at my disposal. It
also taught me to expand my notion of "What do I have, and what can I do with it?"
These are treated as "exploits" in online games, because they actually work and are fun. The game disables anything that actually works, such as a sword. You didn't think a caster, who can't wear armor because it interferes with their delicate hand movements could continue his delicate movements, so easily disrupted, when a 10 foot tall ogre was swatting at them with a sword, did you?
And what would be the business parallel to some little thing done well being more powerful than tons of money and power?
"Hey, I bought this drill and metal saw at the hardware store. Let's sneak into the bank late at night and use it well!"
repetition of "Find a monster. Kill it. Get its treasure." But your character (and career) can get hurt that way. If instead
you set up a situation in which the orcs think that they were attacked by the goblins, the orcs will blow up the goblin
castle in retaliation. That leaves your party to walk through afterward, picking up the spoils (and the experience points).
"Let's you and him fight" is a very effective business strategy... or it's far safer for you, anyway.
It's better still to have a brain and set up your character to actually be effective in the limits of the rules. This isn't "metagaming", i.e. taking advantage of knowledge and behavior outside the game itself (like knowing the details of some monster you're not supposed to or what's around the corner on this module). It's just realizing that a fighter is a fighter, and a wizard, a wizard. Everyone else is a librarian or carwash attendant, and would do predictably well on an adventure.
Oh, and yes, one can be just as clever in figuring out "alternative solutions". Guess who'd be the better thief character, too?
And for the above example, if they literally blew up the castle, most of the good loot would be destroyed. And if they just attacked and killed everyone, they'd take the loot, leaving precious little for you. I don't think Nomad would be pleased.
offering me this three-headed dog trustworthy?") The DM often doesn't know, or he isn't telling; just because he puts
something in your path doesn't mean you need to trust it, accept it, fight it, or buy it. Experimentation without
investigation can be very painful; learn to ask questions. Steve didn't ask a single clarifying question about the beautiful
fairy-fly before he decided to catch it... and it burned a hole straight through his
Not only that, but figuring out how to maximize things and get around the rules and other things "the devs never imagined" is part of the game, and an attractive one.
EverQuest was notorious for slapping players for this. Casting spells at NPCs that couldn't get to you, or could but did so in a roundabout way, both because of stupid AI, was seen as an exploit. More modern games (e.g. CoH) let you take advantage of this because that's how the game was designed.
EverQuest even had the ludicrous situation of introducing a floating island zone, then ended up disabling the floating spell (in which you dropped fairly fast off a cliff anyway, think feather fall) because with legal speed boosts, people could reach other islands "not in the planned order".
So the perfect power for that zone got disabled for it because of crap planning. Good riddence to 'em. These are the people who introduced the first popular, true 3D world (no, it wasn't Meridian, sorry) and then made 3/4 the population sit there for 3/4 of the time with a book in their face so they couldn't see the 3D world.
Had they not been the only game in town, they'd have tanked miserably.
Well, you know, not too many "chicks" wanna sit around for 9 months in the cities. Fights to the death can be hard on the little guy. I'm also not sure how good their infinitesimal and dependent CON values do w.r.t. repeated resurrections.
Freedom isn't workable as a principle?
I assume that's because you find it unbelievable that some people don't want to live the way you want them to.
No, seriously. "Follow the money." That's why.
Notice also how the "commoner" called him a bad name and just...left. He exercised freedom which the game largely enforces.
This is why freedom is not just a separate thing from democracy, but is more important than it. 99% of humanity's problems are traceable to someone picking up a gun or club to bypass the target's freedom. Putting this under the mild yoke of democracy only partially alleviates it, and rarely expands it, or even maintains it. Certainly few politicians yammer about freedom, instead touting the greatness of democracy. Touting freedom suggests limiting their power, which is not what they're in the game for.
From m-w.com:
irony n incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected results
It's somewhat incongruous that a post about a trolling troll was downmodded as troll. Is it enough?
You can't tp people unless 1. they're on your team, or 2. you're in a PvP zone and they're of the opposing faction (a hero to your villain or vice versa.)
The second I presume was not the case (can't get to the web site because it gives...news) and TP'ing an enemy in front of guards is fair game.
So I presume he was a villain and just TP'ing someone in his group in front of some big reds (or purps, in the case of CoX.) But he's a villain.
More power to him! I suggest it's not even griefing for the redside (villain side.)
City of Heroes is busted now, anyway. They made a wonderful feature, create your own missions, and surprise! Now 90%+ of the people never run normal missions, instead joining "level 54 boss" missions that are packed with level 54 (highest normal NPC) bosses (a decent 1-on-1 tussle for a character), said bosses being of custom design by the player mission architect to be pretty much as chumpy as possible.
I solo archvillains, yet I join a normal mission group, since they'e hard to find, to help a guy finish off an "elite boss", which is about 1/20th as tough. If your "reputation" (your difficulty setting used for your instances) is set low enough, the AV at the end turns into an elite boss.
sigh
Does any game have a "pure badass" server where everything is extra hard? I'm getting tired of sitting down at the table for a delicious Italian meal and being served Spaghetti-O's. "I hate invasions because they interrupt my journey to meet my friend to grind some AE 54s." Ok, then.
Have you seen the number of hot girls after House?
Troll? You effing artard. It's one of my funniest comments. You're why reality TV dominates the airwaves rather than new episodes of Cosmos.
> Unlocking Android
Assholes! We're already past 2:14 AM easter daylight time, August 29, 1997 and riding on thin ice. Leave them locked up!
> China Bans Gold Farming
Looks like someone didn't pay their local mafia bill!
> "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That
> was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on
> the Walkman for a genre-specific equalizer, but later I discovered that it was in
> fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
Wait until he finds out his penis isn't really to give his hand something to do.
1. This is old news.
2. They mean 20-30 lbs. overweight, not 100. I.e. the peak of the longevity Bell curve is about 20-40 pounds more than the supposed medically desirable weight. Then it goes back down again.
The guy giving the South Park kids a run for their money on WoW has a life expectancy significantly lower than the "normal" weight people, who are lower than the "overweight but not obese" people.
Cartman, however, remains doomed.
Googled isle gnu linux, lessee. Isle of Man. Isle of Wight. Hmmm. I ain't gettin' it, either.
Hmmm, Linux isn't technically gnu. Googled isle linux. Hmmmm. Isle of Man. Green Isle, MN. Nah, this joke's stupid.
Oh, I forgot! Also you can buy, for 10,000 influence i.e. gold i.e. dollars, which is a very low price in CoH, a 1-use teleporter clickie to teleport back to your favorite black market (evil) or Wentworth's auction area.
City of Heroes has high speed travel and true 3D travel. They also have a rapid transit system to jump to other zones faster. And it starts at level 14, which is about 1 day's "hard" work, or 2-3 if you're taking it easy and actually...enjoying the game.
And then they allowed supergroup (i.e. guild) bases and you could put teleporters in there, and you got a base teleporter as a vet reward if you subscribed long enough, which by that time, many had. Getting the "beacon" for each zone so your base could teleport it became a sub-game.
Then came Oroboros, which was a floaty island realm that served as a hub for time travel. You got "the secret", which was an instant teleport to Oroboros, right at its own teleporter, which you could immediately take to teleport to most zones in the game.
So without much work, I now carry two teleporter clickies that teleport me to one of two hubs where I can then teleport pretty much anywhere. I use them when flying or super-jumping in excess of 60 miles per hour gets boring.
Tell me how awesome that level 40 horse which multiplies your speed by, umm, 1.6, is again?
I'm confused. Is this a patent problems thread, or a some-government-official-screwed-up-a-contract-again thread?
I'll hold my breath waiting for the determination if this is "better for the artists/writers" or not.
In any case, I thought this was already settled. It's only illegal for me to tell you there's a crack house over there where you can get crack for $50/whatever if I'm involved in the operation. If I'm just observant, then no problem, freedom of speech and all.
"Invited...to discuss". Whatever.
The purpose of this "national discussion" is to generate sob stories to proceed with nationalized health care as planned. It's like Azmeenerbijad or Saddam having an election, then, surprise, they win.
> The original's perfectly flat lawns are now replaced with individual blades of grass
I wonder if the flower spurts that replace blood spurts in certain censorious countries now have individual petals of prettiness...
Perhaps not fears of your own government, but certain neighboring governments have been...problematic to your and your neighbor nations within the past 100 years.
To each nation their own.
> but plenty of politically motivated, anti-science trolls have claimed
> EVERYTHING can be explained by natural variation.
One also has to watch out for politically motivated, anti-science trolls who claim EVERYTHING can be solved by massive regulation and control...by them.
Predictions such as a billion people moving inland slowly over a century are far less a problem than, say, slowed or retrograde growth ala the former USSR or North Korea.