They're called flash crowds. It was invented in a sci-fi story after the invention of teleportation. Any time some newsworthy event happened, just a fraction of people the world over would teleport in to see it live.
The solution was to teleport people to an industrial-sized giant bowl where they'd slide down to safety.
...you mean there might be something wrong with concrete canyon dwellers setting the agenda for the entire country? To say, Thou Shalt Not Cut Down Thine Trees -- Don't Do As I Do, Do As I Say?
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I missed the part where the empire deliberately executed a complete planet full of people.
Oh wait, sorry. That's not terrorism. That's just sexy, charasmatic people doin' their thang.
> Back in 1998 a World Islamic Front statement > justified killing Americians and their allies > by stating that America wanted to distroy Iraq > and "humiliate their Muslim neighbours"
Thus ensuring an even deeper humiliation of them.:rollseyes
> With the invasion of Iraq these claims seem a lot more credible
Yes, the humiliation was astounding, with other Muslim leaders shaking their head how rapidly the conventional military was brushed aside.
> The result is an unwinable situation.
Perhaps. But that's because we're the good guys. We don't start killing off 100 for every one of ours killed, at random, in a public square....just counting the days until these animals start executing chidren. Oh, wait. Nevermind. [b]I was joking. Stop it! Stop executing children! Stop walking around shooting them in the back, please. Get back to worshipping that meteorite or whatever.[/b]
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> Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive > because I knew there were risks involved > taking on that particular client.
Blue Collar Man forgot to discuss the part about where he is a soulless bastard.
Ironic that the company that spent decades fighting laws that allowed competition to phone service now takes advantage of offering services in methods it used to fight tooth and nail.
> 'A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m > diameter mirrors would far outperform the > Hubble Space Telescope'
Scientist nerds were quick to point out that it probably wouldn't be good for spying in women's windows because there are no apartments in Antarctica, and even if that lone mildly cute intern does take a shower, the cold will make sure the window is frosted anyway.:(
> Although 70% of the businesses surveyed for > the article claim they never had to deal with > extortion on the Internet,
And 30% [b]have had to deal with it?
Jebus H. Christ[/b]. And here I was bitching because the tard-o-matic Feds couldn't handle throwing half the popup blockers in jail because they cause the popups themselves.
Jebus H. Christ, haven't any of you people been in an actual engine room? Or is it all goody-two-shoes Academy training now, with no lab exercises?
If you had bothered to step foot outside the classroom, you'd know anti-gravitons generate their own field that interacts with the chronons to form anti-chronons. And, contrary to popular belief, that shifts the matter back one picosecond in time, where it immediately collides with itself, causing an explosion on the order of degraded antimatter.
> According to HL2 Fallout, the announcement > from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee, > was created by someone who was able to guess > the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's > forum account.
Suspicions were raised when the same announcement also noted how much Gabe "loved to take a nice hard one up the @$$."
That's why it'll be highly computer controlled. Current planes are like ancient DOS systems, where you have to type in huge commands, and any mistake is catastrophic. Much better to have something where you tell it via some 3D joystic, "Go up, down, left, right, forward, backward", end of story. You don't worry about stabilization, the computer does.
Better yet, you just program the destination and sit back.
They have not been making steady progress. I remember reading about this mofo in the weekly reader back in the what, '70's? His basic design with 6 or 8 little engines surrounding a central pod is almost as old as the Jetson's cartoon.
1. They're more likely to come crashing through the roof. Depending on how strong the general floor is, they may go crashing down through all the floors to the basement.
2. Welcome to the problems the ground floor has been having for a century!
My wife and I think this is a faked film. Reasons:
1. Liftoff is not seen.
2. Blue screen of type used by filmmakers used for composite shots.
3. Second shot (after closeup) looks kind of fake. Of course, it could be due to mpeg-ization, but it still looked bad, like it really wasn't on her hand.
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They're called flash crowds. It was invented in a sci-fi story after the invention of teleportation. Any time some newsworthy event happened, just a fraction of people the world over would teleport in to see it live.
The solution was to teleport people to an industrial-sized giant bowl where they'd slide down to safety.
We're...not quite there yet.
Were those the dubious ones the Democrats wanted removed, even as they spoke about how the importance of every ballot overrode technicalities?
Uhhhh...yeah.
Mmmmmmmmaybe.
Or maybe we'd be waiting for sanctions to work in Afganistan.
...you mean there might be something wrong with concrete canyon dwellers setting the agenda for the entire country? To say, Thou Shalt Not Cut Down Thine Trees -- Don't Do As I Do, Do As I Say?
I missed the part where the empire deliberately executed a complete planet full of people.
Oh wait, sorry. That's not terrorism. That's just sexy, charasmatic people doin' their thang.
> Back in 1998 a World Islamic Front statement
:rollseyes
...just counting the days until these animals start executing chidren. Oh, wait. Nevermind. [b]I was joking. Stop it! Stop executing children! Stop walking around shooting them in the back, please. Get back to worshipping that meteorite or whatever.[/b]
> justified killing Americians and their allies
> by stating that America wanted to distroy Iraq
> and "humiliate their Muslim neighbours"
Thus ensuring an even deeper humiliation of them.
> With the invasion of Iraq these claims seem a lot more credible
Yes, the humiliation was astounding, with other Muslim leaders shaking their head how rapidly the conventional military was brushed aside.
> The result is an unwinable situation.
Perhaps. But that's because we're the good guys. We don't start killing off 100 for every one of ours killed, at random, in a public square.
> Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive
> because I knew there were risks involved
> taking on that particular client.
Blue Collar Man forgot to discuss the part about where he is a soulless bastard.
Oh no, there's a rat. Owwww! It's starting to eat my foot, and I'm trapped, and will be trapped for 3 more days! Owwww! Owwwwwwww!
Ironic that the company that spent decades fighting laws that allowed competition to phone service now takes advantage of offering services in methods it used to fight tooth and nail.
> 'A novel Antarctic telescope with 16-m
:(
> diameter mirrors would far outperform the
> Hubble Space Telescope'
Scientist nerds were quick to point out that it probably wouldn't be good for spying in women's windows because there are no apartments in Antarctica, and even if that lone mildly cute intern does take a shower, the cold will make sure the window is frosted anyway.
> Although 70% of the businesses surveyed for
> the article claim they never had to deal with
> extortion on the Internet,
And 30% [b]have had to deal with it?
Jebus H. Christ[/b]. And here I was bitching because the tard-o-matic Feds couldn't handle throwing half the popup blockers in jail because they cause the popups themselves.
Oh.
My.
God.
Let's get some ass in gear, eh, George or John?
> 3. Get rid of annoying girlfriend.
>
> O wait - I'm a slashdotter, I don't have a
> girlfriend! Scratch that last command.
It's got ya covered! One of the new, hacked behaviours is to grasp a pole-like object and move up and down rapidly.
Now your life is complete...ly devoid of meaning long term.
Jebus H. Christ, haven't any of you people been in an actual engine room? Or is it all goody-two-shoes Academy training now, with no lab exercises?
If you had bothered to step foot outside the classroom, you'd know anti-gravitons generate their own field that interacts with the chronons to form anti-chronons. And, contrary to popular belief, that shifts the matter back one picosecond in time, where it immediately collides with itself, causing an explosion on the order of degraded antimatter.
> According to HL2 Fallout, the announcement
> from Gabe Newell, a Valve Software employee,
> was created by someone who was able to guess
> the simple password of "gaben" for Gabe's
> forum account.
Suspicions were raised when the same announcement also noted how much Gabe "loved to take a nice hard one up the @$$."
Great. Squeeky wheel AND a light to irritate me in the middle of the night.
Why don't ya invent a little squirt gun so he can squirt me whilst I sleep too?
> MIT Names First Female President
MIT board of regents apologizes for not having one sooner, but it took decades to get up the nerve to ask her.
> Grow Your Own Replacement Bones
Now if I can just Grow My Own Replacement Boner.
The odds of science experiments testing positive? I have one:
Odds of average Slashdotter knowing the touch of a woman reaching 50%: 6000:1
And where are the flesh-covered sexbots, dammit???
Jesus H. Christ, the future is taking forever!
That's why it'll be highly computer controlled. Current planes are like ancient DOS systems, where you have to type in huge commands, and any mistake is catastrophic. Much better to have something where you tell it via some 3D joystic, "Go up, down, left, right, forward, backward", end of story. You don't worry about stabilization, the computer does.
Better yet, you just program the destination and sit back.
They have not been making steady progress. I remember reading about this mofo in the weekly reader back in the what, '70's? His basic design with 6 or 8 little engines surrounding a central pod is almost as old as the Jetson's cartoon.
1. They're more likely to come crashing through the roof. Depending on how strong the general floor is, they may go crashing down through all the floors to the basement.
2. Welcome to the problems the ground floor has been having for a century!
Meh, DOS would not be a bright thing -- two can play at that game. Of course, terrorism was never that bright to begin with.
We've also only been seriously trying for a hundred and fifty years or so, not three and a half billion.
My wife and I think this is a faked film. Reasons:
1. Liftoff is not seen.
2. Blue screen of type used by filmmakers used for composite shots.
3. Second shot (after closeup) looks kind of fake. Of course, it could be due to mpeg-ization, but it still looked bad, like it really wasn't on her hand.