Yeah, you can read full-blown communist stories where everyone magically lives an advanced, wonderful life, too. It's why it's called "fiction".
The reality is that the more crap the government heaves on us, the slower the economy. The economy doesn't care if the intentions are good or not. And that's what few people realize.
Email goes to your inbox -- you don't have to read it right away, or even be logged in.
And if a chat program had a feature that people could send you messages without you being logged in, then I would say that did, in fact, count as an email program.
> Public schools can't teach bible verses, even though they > would not be "making a law respecting an establishment of > religion", they'd be teaching religion, not establishing it.
Read the Constitution again. They are forbidden not just from establishing it, but from making a law that merely respects an establishment of religion.
And I would disagree even with your notion. An official government representative teaching (a particular) religion is most definitely establishing it as official.
> Depending on how you interpret it, the Greek definition of "planete" > could exclude Uranus and Neptune because they are not visible with the naked
Technically Uranus is visible to the naked eye (I could have added "brown" in there somewhere, but mercifully chose not to). It's just that it moves so slowly no ancient culture discovered it.
3D games would be a completely different technology -- you have the 3D info there, all you have to do is render a second copy at a slightly offset angle, and then show both in your display mechanism. Or better yet, do two renderings, each offset from the "proper" one, left and right, by a little bit. The game need not ever know about it, as this can be done at the driver/3D card level.
> Yes and no... There are places where mountain chains run right into the ocean, for starters. A few people could have survived.
Yes, but we have, sadly, a recent data point with the recent tsunami. Of the dozens of films, none come from areas where the waves were 20 feet or higher, so we don't know what it was like in the worst areas. You'd have to get lucky with that or someone on a pole with a camera by pure coincidence. Most areas will just be flattened, including modern buildings. If it's a metro area, you might get a news or traffic chopper that already happens to be in flight capture it.
The moon, a much smaller body, had one only a few centuries ago, visible to much of the world and well-recorded. Jupiter, much larger, had one just a few years ago. Then there was the Tunguska event.
So even allowing for much larger and multiple heavenly bodies, which might bring the rate up to 1/100,000 years cumulatively, well, 3 data points is enough to suggest it's statistically a hell of a lot more frequent than once every 100,000 years.
I think a good case of explosive diarrhea spreading through the virtual world would be quite amusing.
In World of Warcraft, someone did spread a disease, quite literally. I'm not sure on the exact details, but someone teleported from a high level instance infected with a ferocious, but very short-lived disease spell on them, so powerful it would kill a high level in just a few seconds. The TP's back to a city and it infected an NPC, which also, being "a cheater", had an uber-high heal rate, so it was NOT killed. So this thing now began to infect anyone who came near it.
Ya know, this stuff is fantastically interesting when it happens, but no game company seems to want it. Why, I don't know. We're still waiting on the company that puts out real events that mess up everybody's plans to go "grind a mission with friends." Would you avoid such a server for a vanilla one, or make a beeline to one that's constantly having waves of invasion take over part of the city, mess up a particular spell until the server does xyz, etc. I rest my case.
So, you could create a virtual object that upon it being touched would create four more of these objects at 200m in the four cardinal directions from where it is in the game world. Then some other fool would touch one of those new objects and yet another four more objects would be created.
Now imagine that your script starts off by seeding thousands of these boobytrapped objects all over the place.
Now imagine 1000's of fools all touching these objects...
Sounds like the release of "wee" and PS3, but without the factory laggin'!
If programmers would program the guns to kill in one hit like they're supposed to, people would get over this silly nunchuck fad. But nooooooooo...we can't have realistic stuff like guns killing in one hit, guys with swords insta-killing a caster waving his hands around when he gets in range, or a "Level 50" warrior being burned and falls to the ground screaming when a fireball from a "Level 1" caster suddenly erupts around him because, surprise, you can't "resist" or "dodge" a bunch of flaming slop all over you.
The energy released by the explosion on II Pegasi was equivalent to about 50 quintillion atomic bombs
Sounds like someone from StarDestroyer.net arguing why Boba Fett's ship R2 and C-3PO's escape pod could whip the ass of the Enterprise E. Except for not ending it with ", fool!"
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What about two hundred Priuses each carrying 4 vs. a loaded new Airbus Monster?
Yeah, you can read full-blown communist stories where everyone magically lives an advanced, wonderful life, too. It's why it's called "fiction".
The reality is that the more crap the government heaves on us, the slower the economy. The economy doesn't care if the intentions are good or not. And that's what few people realize.
Email goes to your inbox -- you don't have to read it right away, or even be logged in.
And if a chat program had a feature that people could send you messages without you being logged in, then I would say that did, in fact, count as an email program.
> Public schools can't teach bible verses, even though they
> would not be "making a law respecting an establishment of
> religion", they'd be teaching religion, not establishing it.
Read the Constitution again. They are forbidden not just from establishing it, but from making a law that merely respects an establishment of religion.
And I would disagree even with your notion. An official government representative teaching (a particular) religion is most definitely establishing it as official.
So Galactus' world ship, a Watcher, and the entire universe count as a planet?
Christ! Get me some nerds who know what they're talking about.
I liked this definition too, until I found out there would be 50-something things in the solar system that would therefore count as a planet.
> Depending on how you interpret it, the Greek definition of "planete"
> could exclude Uranus and Neptune because they are not visible with the naked
Technically Uranus is visible to the naked eye (I could have added "brown" in there somewhere, but mercifully chose not to). It's just that it moves so slowly no ancient culture discovered it.
The Death Star could beat up an entire, actual star in the Star Trek universe, according to StarDestroyer.net.
Fools!
Also, stars aren't technically on fire. They are "burning" by nuclear reaction, not chemical reaction.
> Then they placed an extremely thin layer of silicon
> dioxide -- about two billionths of a meter thick
Holy crap! That's about 2 trillionths of a kilometer thick!
3D games would be a completely different technology -- you have the 3D info there, all you have to do is render a second copy at a slightly offset angle, and then show both in your display mechanism. Or better yet, do two renderings, each offset from the "proper" one, left and right, by a little bit. The game need not ever know about it, as this can be done at the driver/3D card level.
> Yes and no... There are places where mountain chains run right into the ocean, for starters. A few people could have survived.
Yes, but we have, sadly, a recent data point with the recent tsunami. Of the dozens of films, none come from areas where the waves were 20 feet or higher, so we don't know what it was like in the worst areas. You'd have to get lucky with that or someone on a pole with a camera by pure coincidence. Most areas will just be flattened, including modern buildings. If it's a metro area, you might get a news or traffic chopper that already happens to be in flight capture it.
"I'm a nerd and have never known the touch of a woman. I don't want to die without having sampled the sweet mystery of life. Can you help me?"
Pick a response:
A. "Uhhh, I promised myself to some guy down the hall, bye."
B. "I'd love to, but I don't want to die knowing unbathed teen males from the Warhammer room in the back of the hobby shop."
C. "No, I love you, but I'm your mother and that's just gross."
> When was the last major impact?
The moon, a much smaller body, had one only a few centuries ago, visible to much of the world and well-recorded. Jupiter, much larger, had one just a few years ago. Then there was the Tunguska event.
So even allowing for much larger and multiple heavenly bodies, which might bring the rate up to 1/100,000 years cumulatively, well, 3 data points is enough to suggest it's statistically a hell of a lot more frequent than once every 100,000 years.
In World of Warcraft, someone did spread a disease, quite literally. I'm not sure on the exact details, but someone teleported from a high level instance infected with a ferocious, but very short-lived disease spell on them, so powerful it would kill a high level in just a few seconds. The TP's back to a city and it infected an NPC, which also, being "a cheater", had an uber-high heal rate, so it was NOT killed. So this thing now began to infect anyone who came near it.
Ya know, this stuff is fantastically interesting when it happens, but no game company seems to want it. Why, I don't know. We're still waiting on the company that puts out real events that mess up everybody's plans to go "grind a mission with friends." Would you avoid such a server for a vanilla one, or make a beeline to one that's constantly having waves of invasion take over part of the city, mess up a particular spell until the server does xyz, etc. I rest my case.
Sounds like the release of "wee" and PS3, but without the factory laggin'!
> [+] flamebait, billgates, no, dilbert, itsatrap (tagging beta)
Hehehe
> Wait. I was planning on owning both the PS3 and Wii, so does that make me bi?
No, it means you'll never ever know for sure since you must score to know for sure.
> the nunchuck
If programmers would program the guns to kill in one hit like they're supposed to, people would get over this silly nunchuck fad. But nooooooooo...we can't have realistic stuff like guns killing in one hit, guys with swords insta-killing a caster waving his hands around when he gets in range, or a "Level 50" warrior being burned and falls to the ground screaming when a fireball from a "Level 1" caster suddenly erupts around him because, surprise, you can't "resist" or "dodge" a bunch of flaming slop all over you.
> Even more scary... why is a town of 80 using electronic voting
> at all? Shouldn't they get a gas station first?
We have cleanest prostitutes in region.
So does this mean it will, in fact, make it in time for the PC manufacturers to make it in time for the Christmas rush?
Er, holiday rush?
Sure. As opposed to merely people who say they don't steal it, they just trade around the original CDs with their friends.
"Will you please go help that old geezer get that machine set up? I know you're "on a raid", but Jesus..."
Sounds like someone from StarDestroyer.net arguing why Boba Fett's ship R2 and C-3PO's escape pod could whip the ass of the Enterprise E. Except for not ending it with ", fool!"
MacArthur Foundation Trustee: You've spent $49.98 million so far, and your report is due tomorrow. What have you found out?
Guy surfing MySpace and playing WoW: Ummmm...I'm almost done with it. I'll email it by COB tomorrow.