The first time in PvP is a cruel lesson for the PvE player. I played Warcraft II on T.E.N. (Total Entertainment Network) way back before it went out of business, in the Quake I/Duke Nukem days. I built up my stuff, generated a big honkin' demon or two, and sent them...into quick destruction at the hands of a zergling rush of archers or spear throwers, I forget.
That was pretty much the way to beat other RTS, including the awesome Sacrifice. Huge numbers of popcorn ranged units (which attack both ground and air forces.) Don't waste time with anything else.
And as a squad-based RTS, it was vastly superior to that hobbled terd Warcraft III.
Beavis and Butt-head are listening to Stuart and Mr. Whatsisname work on this science project:
Mr. Whatsisname: Stick it in my borehole, Stuart. Drill it deep, Stuart. Sink it all the way in, Stuart. Now push your sensor deep in, Stuart. If you're having trouble, move the rocks out of the way, Stuart.
> It's probably going to take another 10 years at least to get something that's effective in humans
This is where good old-fashioned capitalist greed comes in, and why socialized medicine is murderous.
I'll take a loan out for $100,000 to buy this drug. Let's get the show on the road, shall we? There's tens of billions of dollars to be made in fat old sedentary USA.
In this case, that's not correct. You still have to have part of the electromagnetic spectrum allocated for use within the US (if the US is your target audience.)
That's the valid argument against an XM/Sirius merger, independent of lobbyists: The government allocated spectrum for two independent, competing satellite radio networks, And Two We Shall Have.
This, my friend, is Randi's whole point. Line up the $1000/meter silver cables vs. some Radio Shack copper crap, and do a double-blind experiment where you are asked to tell which one is which over 10 or 30 trials. Here's a hint: You're wasting your money (and, via your reviews, you are causing customers to lose money.)
Randi's gripe is that many of these "reviewers" are like UFO book authors -- pushing their articles, magazines (and advertising $), knowing full well they could never successfully do such a test.
Smaller animals would have many more generations, which would grotesquely trump a paltry 10-30% temperature advantage.
In any case, every change in protein has to be "tested" by some unlucky (or lucky) child to see if it helps them or causes them to grow festering sores in their joints.
Let's not forget the best feature of all: They'll give the government a back door into it, in exchange for the government backing off on the anti-trust lawsuits, just as was done for a backdoor remote control into Windows.
> It appears that the faked sites are redirecting the Googlebot to a location where content can > be indexed, while at the same time recognizing normal users and redirecting them to a site > that includes the malware mentioned earlier. This is an obvious violation of Google's > guidelines, but the spammers have found ways to circumvent the rule and hide it from the Googlebot.
Huh. What do you know about that? Who'd've thunk Google's guidline would be disobeyed by spammers, given how well anti-handgun laws make criminals think twice before using a handgun in a crime.
> Researchers at Duke University have developed a new printing technique using catalysts > to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. Their inkless printing technique uses > enzymes from E. coli bacteria and has an accuracy of less than 2 nanometers. While they're > are now using enzymes to stamp nanopatterns without ink, the research team is already > working with non-enzymatic catalysts. And it added that 'future versions of the inkless > technique could be used to build complex nanoscale devices with unprecedented precision.
Man Show Boy: Boy, the transhumanist techno-rapture omega point sure is boring to actually sit through.
Not necessarily. There could have been some other factors that kept gay people breeding normally in centuries past. Most likely just societal pressures. Evil, yes, by modern standards, but effective, and evolution doesn't care any more than it does for a child created by rape.
"Gay" gene (or, perhaps, weakened "hetero" genes, whatever) didn't get weeded out because these people mostly still successfully reproduced.
The next few hundred years could prove interesting, as actual genetic tendencies to not be gay will become amplified. By that point, humans will probably all have lips the size of bicycle inner tubes and breasts the size of cantalopes. Would that I could live to see it.
He called them cowards because they attacked defenseless, unsuspecting civilians, including women and children, rather than a proper military target. That they were, in some biological sense, physically brave to fly a plane into a building is beside the point.
They "stare" by running up to you, turning away (so the avatar isn't looking at you), then swing the camera around so you're right front and center to them (cameras can rotate 360 around the character, regardless of which way he's pointed.)
Of course, some idiots just blatently walk up and stand there looking in your face.
> "We looked at how this would impact our ability to respond quickly to things happening > at internet speed on the PC side of the equation and realized that this would not be > in the best interests of our very loyal PC userbase because we would constantly be > holding on to updates to wait until they passed cert on the console platform. Our PC > fanbase is of ultimate importance to us. They are our bread and butter. We can't let > them down or compromise their experience in any way to accommodate cross platform play."
"Also, mousers destroy controller users, and we don't want our much larger console market userbase to feel like chimpanzees."
That list of goodies is nice, but not gonna happen unless I get a Necklace of Pk Griefer Teenybopper Groups Slaughtering People By The Graveyard Die Now Pigs.
> Despite the cult status of Planescape: Torment, it was one of the > least successful entries in the Baldur's Gate family of games.
One of. Can't claim worst, because that'd be the last game in the series, Temple of Elemental Evil.
They actually had some superswords that would automatically counter-attack something that attacked you. If you, unfortunately, went to go hit a flame elemental or some such, which also had an automatic counterattack, the game would get stuck in its turn-based mechanism as something choked as the mutual counterattacks fed off each other and tied up the next-turn logic.
This state was easy to get into other ways, too. They never fixed this stuff. Often, you'd re-load a saved game, only to see it was stuck in such a state, the saved game beeing fubarred now.
It's too bad, because, by careful but legitimate (if unenvisioned) gameplay, you could acquire two such swords and be a dual-wielding engine of destruction. Sadly, such dual wielding lead to even worse problems because the swords choked on each other frequently.
Man, take those two swords (+ fixed programming) and roll it in with the boots of haste, spell-bouncing cloak, and dual Rings of Gaxx (also acquirable by legitimate, if unenvisioned, gameplay), and damn, you'd take out pretty much anything in, well, Marvel's list of heroes anyway.
> [Obama] must have used a time machine to go back and vote for the war in 2002 > and the Patriot Act in 2001. Since he didn't go a bit further back and shoot > Hitler, he's objectively pro-Hitler. Well, he's just lost my vote.
In Obama's defense, Eva did show him one hell of a good time. She had sex with her cousin, who only had one testicle. That was one kinky slank! =-)
> What they are less keen on is video calling: in Japan, as in the UK, 90% say "no thanks, never"....never in public, anyway. "Oh, come on! I'll show you mine if you show me yours!"
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The first time in PvP is a cruel lesson for the PvE player. I played Warcraft II on T.E.N. (Total Entertainment Network) way back before it went out of business, in the Quake I/Duke Nukem days. I built up my stuff, generated a big honkin' demon or two, and sent them...into quick destruction at the hands of a zergling rush of archers or spear throwers, I forget.
That was pretty much the way to beat other RTS, including the awesome Sacrifice. Huge numbers of popcorn ranged units (which attack both ground and air forces.) Don't waste time with anything else.
And as a squad-based RTS, it was vastly superior to that hobbled terd Warcraft III.
> More like the Cedar Point Demon Drop than a roller coaster, but still, I'd ride it.
No doubt it would be highly exciting as the shuttle or rocket it was attached to is probably in the process of exploding.
Lemme know how it goes.
Beavis and Butt-head are listening to Stuart and Mr. Whatsisname work on this science project:
Mr. Whatsisname: Stick it in my borehole, Stuart. Drill it deep, Stuart. Sink it all the way in, Stuart. Now push your sensor deep in, Stuart. If you're having trouble, move the rocks out of the way, Stuart.
> It's probably going to take another 10 years at least to get something that's effective in humans
This is where good old-fashioned capitalist greed comes in, and why socialized medicine is murderous.
I'll take a loan out for $100,000 to buy this drug. Let's get the show on the road, shall we? There's tens of billions of dollars to be made in fat old sedentary USA.
In this case, that's not correct. You still have to have part of the electromagnetic spectrum allocated for use within the US (if the US is your target audience.)
That's the valid argument against an XM/Sirius merger, independent of lobbyists: The government allocated spectrum for two independent, competing satellite radio networks, And Two We Shall Have.
This, my friend, is Randi's whole point. Line up the $1000/meter silver cables vs. some Radio Shack copper crap, and do a double-blind experiment where you are asked to tell which one is which over 10 or 30 trials. Here's a hint: You're wasting your money (and, via your reviews, you are causing customers to lose money.)
Randi's gripe is that many of these "reviewers" are like UFO book authors -- pushing their articles, magazines (and advertising $), knowing full well they could never successfully do such a test.
Smaller animals would have many more generations, which would grotesquely trump a paltry 10-30% temperature advantage.
In any case, every change in protein has to be "tested" by some unlucky (or lucky) child to see if it helps them or causes them to grow festering sores in their joints.
Let's not forget the best feature of all: They'll give the government a back door into it, in exchange for the government backing off on the anti-trust lawsuits, just as was done for a backdoor remote control into Windows.
Nah.
Just kidding.
Go on about your business.
That's all very nice, but where do the polls come from, and who decides the CowboyNeal "funny" choice is actually funny?
> with the Internet shut down in the country, are no longer posting live stories.
> Some of them are on the run and fearing for their lives.
Don't worry about it. The guns on the Ironforge auction house take a dozen shots to kill you; I'm sure the real world is the same.
And the bayonettes? Don't make me laugh. They're even weaker than the ranged attacks.
> It appears that the faked sites are redirecting the Googlebot to a location where content can
> be indexed, while at the same time recognizing normal users and redirecting them to a site
> that includes the malware mentioned earlier. This is an obvious violation of Google's
> guidelines, but the spammers have found ways to circumvent the rule and hide it from the Googlebot.
Huh. What do you know about that? Who'd've thunk Google's guidline would be disobeyed by spammers, given how well anti-handgun laws make criminals think twice before using a handgun in a crime.
> Researchers at Duke University have developed a new printing technique using catalysts
> to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. Their inkless printing technique uses
> enzymes from E. coli bacteria and has an accuracy of less than 2 nanometers. While they're
> are now using enzymes to stamp nanopatterns without ink, the research team is already
> working with non-enzymatic catalysts. And it added that 'future versions of the inkless
> technique could be used to build complex nanoscale devices with unprecedented precision.
Man Show Boy: Boy, the transhumanist techno-rapture omega point sure is boring to actually sit through.
Not necessarily. There could have been some other factors that kept gay people breeding normally in centuries past. Most likely just societal pressures. Evil, yes, by modern standards, but effective, and evolution doesn't care any more than it does for a child created by rape.
"Gay" gene (or, perhaps, weakened "hetero" genes, whatever) didn't get weeded out because these people mostly still successfully reproduced.
The next few hundred years could prove interesting, as actual genetic tendencies to not be gay will become amplified. By that point, humans will probably all have lips the size of bicycle inner tubes and breasts the size of cantalopes. Would that I could live to see it.
He called them cowards because they attacked defenseless, unsuspecting civilians, including women and children, rather than a proper military target. That they were, in some biological sense, physically brave to fly a plane into a building is beside the point.
They "stare" by running up to you, turning away (so the avatar isn't looking at you), then swing the camera around so you're right front and center to them (cameras can rotate 360 around the character, regardless of which way he's pointed.)
Of course, some idiots just blatently walk up and stand there looking in your face.
There's always the goth chicks working down at the comic book store. That would still involve talking, though.
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> "We looked at how this would impact our ability to respond quickly to things happening
> at internet speed on the PC side of the equation and realized that this would not be
> in the best interests of our very loyal PC userbase because we would constantly be
> holding on to updates to wait until they passed cert on the console platform. Our PC
> fanbase is of ultimate importance to us. They are our bread and butter. We can't let
> them down or compromise their experience in any way to accommodate cross platform play."
"Also, mousers destroy controller users, and we don't want our much larger console market userbase to feel like chimpanzees."
> It can see 10-km-square from an altitude of 7.5 kilometres with a resolution better than 50 centimetres per pixel.
Still not good enough for Alyssa Milano's large-diameter areolae. Cut it by ten -- 5 cm should be sufficient.
"Return to Brittania"?
That list of goodies is nice, but not gonna happen unless I get a Necklace of Pk Griefer Teenybopper Groups Slaughtering People By The Graveyard Die Now Pigs.
> Despite the cult status of Planescape: Torment, it was one of the
> least successful entries in the Baldur's Gate family of games.
One of. Can't claim worst, because that'd be the last game in the series, Temple of Elemental Evil.
They actually had some superswords that would automatically counter-attack something that attacked you. If you, unfortunately, went to go hit a flame elemental or some such, which also had an automatic counterattack, the game would get stuck in its turn-based mechanism as something choked as the mutual counterattacks fed off each other and tied up the next-turn logic.
This state was easy to get into other ways, too. They never fixed this stuff. Often, you'd re-load a saved game, only to see it was stuck in such a state, the saved game beeing fubarred now.
It's too bad, because, by careful but legitimate (if unenvisioned) gameplay, you could acquire two such swords and be a dual-wielding engine of destruction. Sadly, such dual wielding lead to even worse problems because the swords choked on each other frequently.
Man, take those two swords (+ fixed programming) and roll it in with the boots of haste, spell-bouncing cloak, and dual Rings of Gaxx (also acquirable by legitimate, if unenvisioned, gameplay), and damn, you'd take out pretty much anything in, well, Marvel's list of heroes anyway.
> [Obama] must have used a time machine to go back and vote for the war in 2002
> and the Patriot Act in 2001. Since he didn't go a bit further back and shoot
> Hitler, he's objectively pro-Hitler. Well, he's just lost my vote.
In Obama's defense, Eva did show him one hell of a good time. She had sex with her cousin, who only had one testicle. That was one kinky slank! =-)
> PATRIOT Act
Public Asshole Tunneling via Rear Insertion Of Tool
Hack a nuclear reactor so it melts down?
Ok, maybe reprogramming a weather satellite [i]to control the weather[/i] is only 99.9% impossible.
The door creaks and starts to close on freedom.
Soon, with face recognition and license plate OCR (already used in several places) they'll track everybody, everywhere in public.
If we need a Constitutional ammendment to stop this, now is the time.
> What they are less keen on is video calling: in Japan, as in the UK, 90% say "no thanks, never". ...never in public, anyway. "Oh, come on! I'll show you mine if you show me yours!"