Roll it back 300 years. "Who the hell would want to visit this continent? We've killed the buffalo and the mammoths, have overpopulated it with a little village every ten miles, and can't keep from killing and torturing each other."
I know there's a name for being so culturally egotistical you think you are the end-all of powerful cultures, but I can't think of it.
What a laugh your statement would be to someone from the evil Star Wars' Empire's capital world, or Trantor.
Please spell "Apollo program" properly, you know, the way the men who walked on the moon do (after stepping down from their aluminum craft and drinking their Tang-flavored drinks.)
Again, people presume the average planet out there consists of a bunch of dictatorships and maybe some free countries large enough to resist, and that they've all "learned to live together in peace".
Perhaps the average planet is one giant continent with one dictatorship that rules it all. There's your planet with no "us vs. them". Thanks but no thanks.
So don't presume what's out there are some benevolant aliens with doe eyes. That may be the exception rather than the rule of planetary civilizations.
The Cruscades were a largely ineffective waste of money, IIRC. One could similarly argue Greece, which had invented steam-powered solenoids and spinning toys, and invented 99% of science except the part of applying it to the real world, could have, with a tiny shove, started the accelerating tech climb 2400 years ago. We'd have been on the moon before the Romans hit the bigtime.
Then, computers before Jesus, and by nowadays, we'd be so advanced we'd be like Organians, never returning to physical life unless we wanted to visit "the olden ways", presumably in a world where we gave ourselves temporary mind wipes so we'd not realize the true nature......uhhhh, nevermind. Get back to arguing about...stuff.
Yes. The presumption is that all planets are like Earth, with the (re-)discovery of a giant, resource-laden continent by an offshoot of a free nation, leading to a counter-weight large free nation to various old-world dictatorships from Europe through Asia.
They might not fight amongst themselves not because they're wise pacifists who've learned to live together. Maybe one dictatorship winning it all, with government "of the people...vanishing from this Earth", is the average situation.
Maybe most planets are not like Earth, and are where rather a massive dicatorship Ruled Them All, and that's the standard that goes out to the stars? It may take many more generations due to slower technological development that dictatorships suffer under, but if they've had a billion year head start...?
The Doctor might last a few milliseconds against The Blight and other truly frightining stuff, but dust motes like Superman, Green Lantern, and so on wouldn't.
> Eight tusks and a bison skull all show signs of having being blasted with iron-nickel > fragments, typical meteorite material. Raised, burnt surface rings trace the point of > entry of high-velocity projectiles; and the punctures are on only one side, consistent > with a blast coming from a single direction.
The scientists continue their discussion:
Scientist 1: Then the bison wrote, "I don't think I can survive much longer, bleeding badly, it's getting cold, so cold, agguh guh guh guh guhhhh"
Scientist 2: If he was dying, the bison wouldn't take the time to write out "ahh guh guh guh guh".
> "Boeing this week completed work on and installed a 12,000-pound chemical laser in a C-130H aircraft. > Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) which is being developed for the Department of Defense, will > destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the > battlefield and in urban operations."
Nerf the US. They're getting too far ahead in their tech research tree!
Best bet would be to tie the end of the hammer's handle to your shoes, and keep your feet together and your arms extended like a whirly-seed from a tree. The hammer should (be trying to) fall more quickly than you and would thus be at the lead, then you will follow right in. But that would add an extra 70 or so mph to your fall vs. falling freefall ("terminal velocity" is no fixed rate, but depends on the net mass-to-area ratio of the object in the direction of the fall, neglecting shape and movement which leads to additional effects, of course.)
Where are those posts about whether the word "retarded" should be being used? >:(
"Surface tension" barely keeps a specialized, tiny water skimmer bug afloat. Going from almost zero to zero isn't the problem. It's about the mass of the water getting in the way and your flabby body trying to delta-v it in a hurry.
"Throwing a hammer" might help...if it, when plunging in, sucked enough bubbles down along with it to temporarily (read a second or so) thus reduce the average mass of the hammer's impact area and depth. Then, if you were prescient and oriented enough to plunge in feet first at that exact spot, you might have a marginally increased chance of survival.
But good luck orienting yourself to fall in skydiver position, then re-orienting just as you are about to hit, hurling the hammer, then re-re-orienting yourself (said hurling would spin you) such that you plunge feet-first in, and to top it off, at the exact spot where you hurled the hammer.
It seems you might do better going in feet first to minimize your surface area (and let the feet take the brunt of it), though preferably after straightening out just before impact so you hit at 150 or so instead of 230 or whatever the straight-up-and-down terminal velocity is.
How long of a flapping streamer, say 1 meter wide, would one need to slow enough to not die hitting land?
One could probably jump to the head of this idiotic line if one could do it with a few hundred yards or less.
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> The Guinness Book of Records has something of it
Yeah, "greatest height fallen without a parachute and living". Some dude fell out of a plane at like 20,000 feet and whonked on a mountain side and slid thru brush and such.
> down the line I could see the Wii (or a console with Wii like controls) becoming the platform > of choice for hardcore FPSers, even over the PC.
What part of "turn off head bobbing, set up a Thresh layout with one finger/thumb for each of the four directions, and grab the mouse with the other hand" doesn't he understand?
"Force feedback" on joysticks is a nice "wow factor", for that matter, but to even remotely compete with a "mouser", you have to turn it off.
Oh, sure, there's some mild competition from no-mouse keyboarders who have the turn rate and tilt set to astronomical, but that's a tough mistress to master just to come close.
Nah, "hardcore" = PvP = as few gimmicks as possible or you're on the ashheap. Waving a wand around just so you can point and shoot, well, hell, I'd bet a properly configured Dance Dance Revolution pad could outdo it.
Let's hope the ongoing expansion of pointlessly large breasts continues to lead.
So if you have unusually large, natural characteristics, you owe it to future generations to have as many babies as possible. Pass this meme around while you're at it.
These include: breasts, lips, araeolae, tight waists, shlongs, nutsacs, testicles, other lips, girls-kiss-girls, and "clitorati", to quote Stewie. Brainpower recommended but optional.
If you possess none of that, reduce number of babies by assiduous use of pr0n (made of those who do.)
> an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of > products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country."
Iraq responded, "That's becauase we just sent a guy to the US, who bought a bunch of 'em at the store, put it in a suitcase, and brought it back. We also have copies of Excel, with receipts, for that matter."
> 'How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?'
Put the ones with thicker dust way at the top or way down at the bottom. Keep that issue of Vogue with that picture of Katherine Heigl you can't do without on the bedstand. That's about it.
Not true. Godwin's law is in the context of outrageous ad hominem attacks. If the comparison to Hitler or Nazis is apt, it wouldn't apply. Nor could it, as the timing of the Nazi appearance in appropriate and inappropriate threads would differ widely; hence a common "law" would be useless unless it were really two sub-laws, in which case it's not really doing its job anymore, is it?
> Toyota has unveiled a robot that can play the violin.
Fools! Don't they know this kind of R&D will never lead to anything profitable? The correct way to make profit is to loan your money out to masses of US yokels at outrageous interest rates, then have hirelings in poor countries ride herd over automated machinery to call into the US to harass the citizens.
It's access to re-flashing devices that makes life difficult, not the effort involved.
If you had to re-flash your BIOS by hooking up a flashing tool, I'm sure it would go a hell of a lot faster and easier than re-installing Windows and all corresponding patches and updates. It's that most people don't have access to such tools that makes it difficult.
As for training, most people don't care to have to re-install windows than people care to have to re-bore the cylinders on their engine at 150,000 miles.
> If you want to use the word "brick" make sure that the devise works for nothing except > building houses or holding papers down on a desk.
What the goddam hell do you ftards think we're talking about?
As a person who works in an embedded software industry where a 1 in 1000 failure rate warranty return crushes any hope of a profit margin, I can say bricking something is a definite no-no.
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Roll it back 300 years. "Who the hell would want to visit this continent? We've killed the buffalo and the mammoths, have overpopulated it with a little village every ten miles, and can't keep from killing and torturing each other."
I know there's a name for being so culturally egotistical you think you are the end-all of powerful cultures, but I can't think of it.
What a laugh your statement would be to someone from the evil Star Wars' Empire's capital world, or Trantor.
Please spell "Apollo program" properly, you know, the way the men who walked on the moon do (after stepping down from their aluminum craft and drinking their Tang-flavored drinks.)
Again, people presume the average planet out there consists of a bunch of dictatorships and maybe some free countries large enough to resist, and that they've all "learned to live together in peace".
Perhaps the average planet is one giant continent with one dictatorship that rules it all. There's your planet with no "us vs. them". Thanks but no thanks.
So don't presume what's out there are some benevolant aliens with doe eyes. That may be the exception rather than the rule of planetary civilizations.
The Cruscades were a largely ineffective waste of money, IIRC. One could similarly argue Greece, which had invented steam-powered solenoids and spinning toys, and invented 99% of science except the part of applying it to the real world, could have, with a tiny shove, started the accelerating tech climb 2400 years ago. We'd have been on the moon before the Romans hit the bigtime.
...uhhhh, nevermind. Get back to arguing about...stuff.
Then, computers before Jesus, and by nowadays, we'd be so advanced we'd be like Organians, never returning to physical life unless we wanted to visit "the olden ways", presumably in a world where we gave ourselves temporary mind wipes so we'd not realize the true nature...
Giant robots? You mean giant, mechanical, shooting ducks that'll be destroyed in the first day or two of all-out war?
Yes. The presumption is that all planets are like Earth, with the (re-)discovery of a giant, resource-laden continent by an offshoot of a free nation, leading to a counter-weight large free nation to various old-world dictatorships from Europe through Asia.
They might not fight amongst themselves not because they're wise pacifists who've learned to live together. Maybe one dictatorship winning it all, with government "of the people...vanishing from this Earth", is the average situation.
Maybe most planets are not like Earth, and are where rather a massive dicatorship Ruled Them All, and that's the standard that goes out to the stars? It may take many more generations due to slower technological development that dictatorships suffer under, but if they've had a billion year head start...?
"This is crazy...it would be like us stepping on some ant hill in Africa."
"And how guilty would we feel if we stepped on an ant hill in Africa?"
"Damn, you pwned me!"
The Doctor might last a few milliseconds against The Blight and other truly frightining stuff, but dust motes like Superman, Green Lantern, and so on wouldn't.
> Eight tusks and a bison skull all show signs of having being blasted with iron-nickel
> fragments, typical meteorite material. Raised, burnt surface rings trace the point of
> entry of high-velocity projectiles; and the punctures are on only one side, consistent
> with a blast coming from a single direction.
The scientists continue their discussion:
Scientist 1: Then the bison wrote, "I don't think I can survive much longer, bleeding badly, it's getting cold, so cold, agguh guh guh guh guhhhh"
Scientist 2: If he was dying, the bison wouldn't take the time to write out "ahh guh guh guh guh".
Scientist 1: Look, I'm only reading what it says.
> "Boeing this week completed work on and installed a 12,000-pound chemical laser in a C-130H aircraft.
> Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) which is being developed for the Department of Defense, will
> destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the
> battlefield and in urban operations."
Nerf the US. They're getting too far ahead in their tech research tree!
> As of now there is no theoretical explanation for why the fluid has the effects it does on laser light.
God never thought that far ahead?
Best bet would be to tie the end of the hammer's handle to your shoes, and keep your feet together and your arms extended like a whirly-seed from a tree. The hammer should (be trying to) fall more quickly than you and would thus be at the lead, then you will follow right in. But that would add an extra 70 or so mph to your fall vs. falling freefall ("terminal velocity" is no fixed rate, but depends on the net mass-to-area ratio of the object in the direction of the fall, neglecting shape and movement which leads to additional effects, of course.)
Where are those posts about whether the word "retarded" should be being used? >:(
"Surface tension" barely keeps a specialized, tiny water skimmer bug afloat. Going from almost zero to zero isn't the problem. It's about the mass of the water getting in the way and your flabby body trying to delta-v it in a hurry.
"Throwing a hammer" might help...if it, when plunging in, sucked enough bubbles down along with it to temporarily (read a second or so) thus reduce the average mass of the hammer's impact area and depth. Then, if you were prescient and oriented enough to plunge in feet first at that exact spot, you might have a marginally increased chance of survival.
But good luck orienting yourself to fall in skydiver position, then re-orienting just as you are about to hit, hurling the hammer, then re-re-orienting yourself (said hurling would spin you) such that you plunge feet-first in, and to top it off, at the exact spot where you hurled the hammer.
It seems you might do better going in feet first to minimize your surface area (and let the feet take the brunt of it), though preferably after straightening out just before impact so you hit at 150 or so instead of 230 or whatever the straight-up-and-down terminal velocity is.
How long of a flapping streamer, say 1 meter wide, would one need to slow enough to not die hitting land?
One could probably jump to the head of this idiotic line if one could do it with a few hundred yards or less.
> The Guinness Book of Records has something of it
Yeah, "greatest height fallen without a parachute and living". Some dude fell out of a plane at like 20,000 feet and whonked on a mountain side and slid thru brush and such.
> down the line I could see the Wii (or a console with Wii like controls) becoming the platform
> of choice for hardcore FPSers, even over the PC.
What part of "turn off head bobbing, set up a Thresh layout with one finger/thumb for each of the four directions, and grab the mouse with the other hand" doesn't he understand?
"Force feedback" on joysticks is a nice "wow factor", for that matter, but to even remotely compete with a "mouser", you have to turn it off.
Oh, sure, there's some mild competition from no-mouse keyboarders who have the turn rate and tilt set to astronomical, but that's a tough mistress to master just to come close.
Nah, "hardcore" = PvP = as few gimmicks as possible or you're on the ashheap. Waving a wand around just so you can point and shoot, well, hell, I'd bet a properly configured Dance Dance Revolution pad could outdo it.
Seriously.
Let's hope the ongoing expansion of pointlessly large breasts continues to lead.
So if you have unusually large, natural characteristics, you owe it to future generations to have as many babies as possible. Pass this meme around while you're at it.
These include: breasts, lips, araeolae, tight waists, shlongs, nutsacs, testicles, other lips, girls-kiss-girls, and "clitorati", to quote Stewie. Brainpower recommended but optional.
If you possess none of that, reduce number of babies by assiduous use of pr0n (made of those who do.)
> an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of
> products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country."
Iraq responded, "That's becauase we just sent a guy to the US, who bought a bunch of 'em at the store, put it in a suitcase, and brought it back. We also have copies of Excel, with receipts, for that matter."
> 'How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?'
Put the ones with thicker dust way at the top or way down at the bottom. Keep that issue of Vogue with that picture of Katherine Heigl you can't do without on the bedstand. That's about it.
Not true. Godwin's law is in the context of outrageous ad hominem attacks. If the comparison to Hitler or Nazis is apt, it wouldn't apply. Nor could it, as the timing of the Nazi appearance in appropriate and inappropriate threads would differ widely; hence a common "law" would be useless unless it were really two sub-laws, in which case it's not really doing its job anymore, is it?
> a textbook example of what Parker Peters refers to
Ahh, Parker Peters, my favorite investigative journalist/photographer, who's also secretly the superhero Manspider.
> Toyota has unveiled a robot that can play the violin.
Fools! Don't they know this kind of R&D will never lead to anything profitable? The correct way to make profit is to loan your money out to masses of US yokels at outrageous interest rates, then have hirelings in poor countries ride herd over automated machinery to call into the US to harass the citizens.
> For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64.
The Commodore 64 is to your first love what the Coleco Adam was to your first love, as expressed by a priest.
It's access to re-flashing devices that makes life difficult, not the effort involved.
If you had to re-flash your BIOS by hooking up a flashing tool, I'm sure it would go a hell of a lot faster and easier than re-installing Windows and all corresponding patches and updates. It's that most people don't have access to such tools that makes it difficult.
As for training, most people don't care to have to re-install windows than people care to have to re-bore the cylinders on their engine at 150,000 miles.
> If you want to use the word "brick" make sure that the devise works for nothing except
> building houses or holding papers down on a desk.
What the goddam hell do you ftards think we're talking about?
As a person who works in an embedded software industry where a 1 in 1000 failure rate warranty return crushes any hope of a profit margin, I can say bricking something is a definite no-no.