GTA 1,the original top down game that started it all, had a misssion to blow up a police staion with a car bomb. Also in GTA 1 when you went on a "KILL FRENZY!" you didn't have to kill specific folks any folks would do incuding cops. GTA 3 had a mission to kill an (oddly animated) undercover cop named Tanner, by lobbing grenades through his window. Vice city has a mission where you lure two cops into a garage to stealthier uniforms, presumably by killing them. But you are right odds are the lawyers never played the game.
Notheingis wrong with pdf as a data format. where it sucks is as a method of giving information that could just as easily been in html, pdf's have their uses if you want to make a form that someone prints fills out and signs before mailing it to you they work great. If exact printing is crucial to you then a PDF is perfect. What sucks is when I am looking for a chunk of info and I have to open yet another program to read just some text. This is the case here. Oh yeah and I hate that the stupid adobe reader checks for updates every damn time I open it.
forget privacy for a minute I am pissed at the cost of wire taps. I forget where I read it but that average wire tap costs around $50,000 most of that in labor. This seems to be yet another collosal moneysink for the government. Wire taps need to be harder toget if only because I don't like paying for them.
Ah yes but I plan to start nude sun bathing in the hopes that all of my pasty white flesh catches the sun just right and blinds the satelite, or alternatly puts a flag on my location that says "do not look here under any curcumstance"
except that if given a large enough set of data the formula to create that data can be reverse engineered, and emulated, also how many unique devices can there be, cost cutting would likly lead to only having a limitied number, then it just comes down to synching your program with a seed password. yes it make things more complicated, but it only needs to get broken once and we have a thousand clone in minutes
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moster rancher is violent, although in an indirect way, (you raise monsters to fight each other in a pit), and animal crossing while non violent didn't feel like you could ever accomplish any thing and even if you did it didn't realy mater. The Sims had consequences for your actions and could have interesting results when you tried new things. Animal crossing just got dull
You had access but you had to work to get it. This is what makes the US censorship so nasty. The truth is still out there just slightly out of sight for the proles. If the Proles don't see it on Faux news it didn't happen, If ABC/NBC/CBS don't drag out the bodies they didn't die. 50,000 is just a number without pictures of the corpses. And never mind the the Liars and election issues, did a lyin' cheatin' husband in Cali' kill his sainted Pregnant wife?
My Ideal ebook would be about the same size and shape as a dvd case. In an accedent I don't see it being remarkably dangerous. A nicer version would include a leather cover that would make it even safer.
What I would like in an ebook reader would be an exemption so that I do not have to shut the damn thing down during take-off and landing. with a real book I can kill 30 or 40 pages during this time.
I heard somewhere that if all of human knowledge were put into a balloon the questions we need to answer are on the surface and what we don't know would be all that is outside the balloon. As we continue to fill the balloon the surface becomes larger thus we have even more questions.
I am not an organic chemist, and to my knowledge neither is Carl Sagan. I however mentioned this to a an organic chemist freind of mine and he laughed at the idea. It is true that carbon and silicon have 4 valence electrons and in theory could form long chain molicules with great complexity, but Si forms somewhat weaker single bonds than carbon. This causes long chain hydrosilicates to be both unstable and shockingly flamible. In short he told me that for life to be silicon based it would either have to be very cold, or have an absurdly fast growth/reproduction cycle.
The problem with this logic of turning all men into criminals is that once one becomes a criminal, one tends to act like one. When to get the bread you need you must break a law that puts you in the same catigory as the thief, why not steal the bread. When Stealing bread has a penalty like killing someone why not kill when you steal as dead men tell no tales. and when men become lawless the govement can no longer rule them.
Not to dispute that comics are still not part of the mainstream yet, but this spring while I was getting raped at the university bookstore I saw Maus mixed in with the text books with a class number under it. Unfortunatly I didn't write the class number down so I don't know what class it was required reading for
There are lots of reasons to not live in Utah. Nuke testing in the 40's/50's really isn't one of them. outside of the actual testing grounds, the radiation fallout that would have been dangerous had a pretty short half life and at this point is pretty well degraded. The rest of the radioactive fallout came down as dust and has by now been blown or washed away to an extent that the background radaition in Utah is scarsely higher than anywhere else.
treid it again last week and yes still pretty much unusable 9 out of ten sites don't come up at all and it bogged down my 2.4 Ghz p4. Still woefully unimpressive. oh yeah and it pegged my outgoing bandwidth the whole time it ran.
The main thing I would like is more turnover in represenitives, more turnover kills some of the cronyism. I just can't help but think that Barbara Boxer has been in Washington so long that there is no way she even knows what the wheather is like in SLO let alone how we feel about our personal liberties
This is why we need a law that "proects the Constitution from attack" or more to the point makes senators (or represenitives) that propose laws later found unconstitutional unelegable for reelection. Of course I would like it to be even harsher and include fucktards that vote for these bills. The house and the senate need a good cleaning. Oh yeah and go vote, Preferably against the incumbant whatever the office.
Get a new mouse. I have two microsoft mice on my desk one is from when the wheel mouse was a new idea and the other is a fairly recent optical mouse. I held your opinion that an optical mouse can't really be that much better, but I was badly wrong. The optical mouse never binds up on the ball or needs to be disassembled to click on a small widget on the desk top. Oh yeah and I bought my optical mouse on clearance for about twenty bucks, and it was worth every penny.
they may not work for me. I have a chemical burn on three of my fingers on my right hand. It still hasn't healed properly and the scar tissue keeps rearanging itself (small blisters keep forming). My other hobby, wood carving, leaves me with several fresh cuts on my hands and fingers each week, from these I can see changes in my prints.
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and as its symbol a steaming pile of crap with a single golden kernal of corn
Two big reasons. first using a gas gives you a tension structure. Tension structures are easy to build light wieght and strong. Using vacume gives you a compression structure and compression structures are much harder to build light. second Vacum isn't that much lighter than helium. follow me on this. At STP (standard temperature and pressure) air has a weight of about 26g/mole while helium has a weight of about 4g/mole blimps run low pressure so this is about right. 1 mole is about 23 L of gas. so for 23L of heium I get 22g of lift for the same amount of vacume I get 26g of lift. So by using helium instead of vacume you only lose about 15% of te lifting capacity, but you greatly simplify construction and maintainance.
I remember when I was a kid in Fresno (its ok I moved) there was a blimp with some sort of lighted advertizing sign on it, of course this would have been in the late '70s. So light up ad blimps are hardly new
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GTA 1 ,the original top down game that started it all, had a misssion to blow up a police staion with a car bomb. Also in GTA 1 when you went on a "KILL FRENZY!" you didn't have to kill specific folks any folks would do incuding cops. GTA 3 had a mission to kill an (oddly animated) undercover cop named Tanner, by lobbing grenades through his window. Vice city has a mission where you lure two cops into a garage to stealthier uniforms, presumably by killing them.
But you are right odds are the lawyers never played the game.
Notheingis wrong with pdf as a data format. where it sucks is as a method of giving information that could just as easily been in html, pdf's have their uses if you want to make a form that someone prints fills out and signs before mailing it to you they work great. If exact printing is crucial to you then a PDF is perfect. What sucks is when I am looking for a chunk of info and I have to open yet another program to read just some text. This is the case here. Oh yeah and I hate that the stupid adobe reader checks for updates every damn time I open it.
forget privacy for a minute I am pissed at the cost of wire taps. I forget where I read it but that average wire tap costs around $50,000 most of that in labor. This seems to be yet another collosal moneysink for the government. Wire taps need to be harder toget if only because I don't like paying for them.
Ah yes but I plan to start nude sun bathing in the hopes that all of my pasty white flesh catches the sun just right and blinds the satelite, or alternatly puts a flag on my location that says "do not look here under any curcumstance"
except that if given a large enough set of data the formula to create that data can be reverse engineered, and emulated, also how many unique devices can there be, cost cutting would likly lead to only having a limitied number, then it just comes down to synching your program with a seed password. yes it make things more complicated, but it only needs to get broken once and we have a thousand clone in minutes
moster rancher is violent, although in an indirect way, (you raise monsters to fight each other in a pit), and animal crossing while non violent didn't feel like you could ever accomplish any thing and even if you did it didn't realy mater. The Sims had consequences for your actions and could have interesting results when you tried new things. Animal crossing just got dull
You had access but you had to work to get it. This is what makes the US censorship so nasty. The truth is still out there just slightly out of sight for the proles. If the Proles don't see it on Faux news it didn't happen, If ABC/NBC/CBS don't drag out the bodies they didn't die. 50,000 is just a number without pictures of the corpses. And never mind the the Liars and election issues, did a lyin' cheatin' husband in Cali' kill his sainted Pregnant wife?
Titanic has a moral and an important lesson for us all.
When the shit hits the fan dump the bitch or you will die.
My Ideal ebook would be about the same size and shape as a dvd case. In an accedent I don't see it being remarkably dangerous. A nicer version would include a leather cover that would make it even safer.
What I would like in an ebook reader would be an exemption so that I do not have to shut the damn thing down during take-off and landing. with a real book I can kill 30 or 40 pages during this time.
I heard somewhere that if all of human knowledge were put into a balloon the questions we need to answer are on the surface and what we don't know would be all that is outside the balloon. As we continue to fill the balloon the surface becomes larger thus we have even more questions.
I am not an organic chemist, and to my knowledge neither is Carl Sagan.
I however mentioned this to a an organic chemist freind of mine and he laughed at the idea. It is true that carbon and silicon have 4 valence electrons and in theory could form long chain molicules with great complexity, but Si forms somewhat weaker single bonds than carbon. This causes long chain hydrosilicates to be both unstable and shockingly flamible. In short he told me that for life to be silicon based it would either have to be very cold, or have an absurdly fast growth/reproduction cycle.
The problem with this logic of turning all men into criminals is that once one becomes a criminal, one tends to act like one. When to get the bread you need you must break a law that puts you in the same catigory as the thief, why not steal the bread. When Stealing bread has a penalty like killing someone why not kill when you steal as dead men tell no tales. and when men become lawless the govement can no longer rule them.
Not to dispute that comics are still not part of the mainstream yet, but this spring while I was getting raped at the university bookstore I saw Maus mixed in with the text books with a class number under it. Unfortunatly I didn't write the class number down so I don't know what class it was required reading for
There are lots of reasons to not live in Utah. Nuke testing in the 40's/50's really isn't one of them. outside of the actual testing grounds, the radiation fallout that would have been dangerous had a pretty short half life and at this point is pretty well degraded. The rest of the radioactive fallout came down as dust and has by now been blown or washed away to an extent that the background radaition in Utah is scarsely higher than anywhere else.
treid it again last week and yes still pretty much unusable 9 out of ten sites don't come up at all and it bogged down my 2.4 Ghz p4. Still woefully unimpressive. oh yeah and it pegged my outgoing bandwidth the whole time it ran.
I lived in tennessee for close to two years and now feel that it should be where we do our future nuclear testing.
The main thing I would like is more turnover in represenitives, more turnover kills some of the cronyism. I just can't help but think that Barbara Boxer has been in Washington so long that there is no way she even knows what the wheather is like in SLO let alone how we feel about our personal liberties
In mozilla that is just awsome. very well done, bravo.
This is why we need a law that "proects the Constitution from attack" or more to the point makes senators (or represenitives) that propose laws later found unconstitutional unelegable for reelection. Of course I would like it to be even harsher and include fucktards that vote for these bills. The house and the senate need a good cleaning.
Oh yeah and go vote, Preferably against the incumbant whatever the office.
Get a new mouse. I have two microsoft mice on my desk one is from when the wheel mouse was a new idea and the other is a fairly recent optical mouse. I held your opinion that an optical mouse can't really be that much better, but I was badly wrong. The optical mouse never binds up on the ball or needs to be disassembled to click on a small widget on the desk top. Oh yeah and I bought my optical mouse on clearance for about twenty bucks, and it was worth every penny.
they may not work for me. I have a chemical burn on three of my fingers on my right hand. It still hasn't healed properly and the scar tissue keeps rearanging itself (small blisters keep forming). My other hobby, wood carving, leaves me with several fresh cuts on my hands and fingers each week, from these I can see changes in my prints.
and as its symbol a steaming pile of crap with a single golden kernal of corn
Two big reasons.
first using a gas gives you a tension structure. Tension structures are easy to build light wieght and strong. Using vacume gives you a compression structure and compression structures are much harder to build light.
second Vacum isn't that much lighter than helium.
follow me on this. At STP (standard temperature and pressure) air has a weight of about 26g/mole while helium has a weight of about 4g/mole blimps run low pressure so this is about right. 1 mole is about 23 L of gas. so for 23L of heium I get 22g of lift for the same amount of vacume I get 26g of lift. So by using helium instead of vacume you only lose about 15% of te lifting capacity, but you greatly simplify construction and maintainance.
I remember when I was a kid in Fresno (its ok I moved) there was a blimp with some sort of lighted advertizing sign on it, of course this would have been in the late '70s. So light up ad blimps are hardly new