This strikes me as funny because a bar near my house is named Bottoms Up...in the suburbs. And it's way sadder than a bar in the city, it's in this dank strip mall, right between a broke down discount furniture store and a tire supply business.
but the Qur'an says not to take Christians or Jews for friends.
Have you ever really read the Quran? Or is this a quotation you read on a blog somewhere, pulled out of some pundit's ass, or what? I'm an athiest, and let me tell you, both the Bible and the Quran have conflictory statements on how to treat people who don't believe in the religion in question. Both books will tell you to turn cheeks and to kill in the name of Deity X. I thought we'd come to consensus by now that holy books can't tell you anything definitive or concrete.
But what really stood out for me was how the story and situation seemed so very much like a set of Frank Herbert books, which I think are referred to as the Void cycle. 'Destination: Void' was the original story, that led to the writing of three more books that he co-authored with someone whose name escapes me: The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension factor.
The manual that comes with my Alpha Centauri lists a few science fiction books in the back as inspiration. Along with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and a few others, is The Jesus Incident.
In California, these self-checkout machines don't exist at all.
We have those here. The two Albertsons I occasionally shop at here in Anaheim have them, as well as Walmart and the Home Depot. As a matter of fact, the other day there were four self checkout lines open and only one line with an actual cashier. I'm sure this is Walmart's wet dream. If only they could get their shoppers to stock the shelves too.
Comments like "The US electorate needs to wake up" only piss Americans off. How would you feel if Americans started saying that about...Spaniards...?
You want an example of an electorate that needs to wake up? Spain. Spineless fucking bastards.
When I read the first statement, I was going to bring up the American reaction to the Madrid bombings, but hell, you did it for me. Honestly, this is/. It shouldn't be this easy.
The Disneyland fireworks still boom, quite loudly I might add. I hear them every night from my house, about 4 miles away.
On another note, they're a lot brighter now, too. Overall, they just look a lot better. It used to be that every night it would smell smoky everywhere in the surrounding area (by which I mean anywhere in the parks and outside on Harbor Blvd, not that I can actually smell the fireworks 4 miles away), and a few minutes into the firework show, there would be this increasingly large cloud of smoke that caught the light from the fireworks, which looked quite ugly.
I don't know exactly how this machinery works (I did read TFA) but it doesn't sound like it would work with Disneyland. It would need capacity to hold tens of thousands of cars, first off. Secondly, everyone would get there at the same time and leave at the same time. Not to mention that if they gave people RFID tags to retrieve their cars, or whatever they use, they'd get lost like crazy, and then what'd you do?
Considering that space isn't at a huge premium in Anaheim (even across the street from the main gates at Disneyland there are still some empty lots), I doubt that using something like this would ever become worthwhile.
If space right around Disneyland ever becomes cramped, they can always buy some space somewhere else, put in a parking lot/structure and tram people in, like they do already. The employee parking lots are even farther than the guest parking structure, but Disney provides a free shuttle.
"and it's true, there is new energy streaming in from the sun - but I haven't seen a viable attempt to actually use that energy now"
I have...it's called farming. We're talking about abundance of everything, not just fuel. The point is that the amount of resources of any kind is not a static amount.
You think it's bad now (well, actually two days ago, that's when they closed the 1.10 beta)? According to Blizzard's LoD page, ladder games in the final 1.10 will be even harder than the beta!
"Ladder Games offer a more challenging type of gameplay than players will find in Normal Games. Monster AI speeds have been increased. Reaction times increased for Ladder Nightmare and Hell games. Basically every monster acts like a super unique. Monster Hit Points have been increased for Nightmare and Hell Ladder games too."
""Renaissance" was a projection of events as understood by the people of Zion. Take the scene where the robots slave like the ancient egyptians? Clearly this is an error; but it's very likely that the survivers are not the people in the developed world, are not the people who dwel in megacities. Maybe no survivor knew about cranes, catapilars, etc."
What about people who were unplugged from the matrix? They would know about cranes and other such things.
The Second Rennaissance is very symbolic, maybe too symbolic, but I just took that scene to be another symbol about how evil humans are or whatever.
Funny how he only missed first post by a minute, but it's all the way down here...
Anyway, why the fuck does everyone keep bitching about the GBA screen?! It's the same as the Gameboy and Gameboy Color screens, and at least it's GOOD color, unlike Gameboy Color. What the fuck are you trying to do, play it in the dark? Turn on the light, you dipshits. This bitching is starting to piss me off...
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Has the industry cheated us of the benefits of civil UAVs by focussing on the demands of the military?
Wait, Slashdot is arguing for government probes that fly over our heads omnipresently? What is this, April Fool's Day?
LOL...Ted Stevens eat your heart out. If I had mod points...
John was killed when a rock fell on him.
John was killed when a rock fell on.
"On him" is a prepositional phrase, so if you take him out, what's the rock falling on?
Which book did you file without reading it?
Which book did you file without reading?
It'd be like asking "Which rock did you throw at John without killing?" That doesn't sound right.
They copied the TV remote UI.
Which is also a stupid design...
Don't let the Nintendo fanbois hear you say that...
I love how this is being reported on Yahoo news.
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Please, get over yourselves, this isn't a network news show, this is a website, and hardly a polished one at that.
Hate to break it to you, but it's not WikiPedia. What do you think it is, a multinational corporation?
No, no, the laser story is down the page a bit, keep going.
This strikes me as funny because a bar near my house is named Bottoms Up...in the suburbs. And it's way sadder than a bar in the city, it's in this dank strip mall, right between a broke down discount furniture store and a tire supply business.
but the Qur'an says not to take Christians or Jews for friends.
Have you ever really read the Quran? Or is this a quotation you read on a blog somewhere, pulled out of some pundit's ass, or what? I'm an athiest, and let me tell you, both the Bible and the Quran have conflictory statements on how to treat people who don't believe in the religion in question. Both books will tell you to turn cheeks and to kill in the name of Deity X. I thought we'd come to consensus by now that holy books can't tell you anything definitive or concrete.
But what really stood out for me was how the story and situation seemed so very much like a set of Frank Herbert books, which I think are referred to as the Void cycle. 'Destination: Void' was the original story, that led to the writing of three more books that he co-authored with someone whose name escapes me: The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension factor.
The manual that comes with my Alpha Centauri lists a few science fiction books in the back as inspiration. Along with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and a few others, is The Jesus Incident.
In California, these self-checkout machines don't exist at all.
We have those here. The two Albertsons I occasionally shop at here in Anaheim have them, as well as Walmart and the Home Depot. As a matter of fact, the other day there were four self checkout lines open and only one line with an actual cashier. I'm sure this is Walmart's wet dream. If only they could get their shoppers to stock the shelves too.
Since nobody bothers to RTFA anymore
Anymore?
Comments like "The US electorate needs to wake up" only piss Americans off. How would you feel if Americans started saying that about...Spaniards...?
/. It shouldn't be this easy.
You want an example of an electorate that needs to wake up? Spain. Spineless fucking bastards.
When I read the first statement, I was going to bring up the American reaction to the Madrid bombings, but hell, you did it for me. Honestly, this is
The Disneyland fireworks still boom, quite loudly I might add. I hear them every night from my house, about 4 miles away.
On another note, they're a lot brighter now, too. Overall, they just look a lot better. It used to be that every night it would smell smoky everywhere in the surrounding area (by which I mean anywhere in the parks and outside on Harbor Blvd, not that I can actually smell the fireworks 4 miles away), and a few minutes into the firework show, there would be this increasingly large cloud of smoke that caught the light from the fireworks, which looked quite ugly.
I don't know exactly how this machinery works (I did read TFA) but it doesn't sound like it would work with Disneyland. It would need capacity to hold tens of thousands of cars, first off. Secondly, everyone would get there at the same time and leave at the same time. Not to mention that if they gave people RFID tags to retrieve their cars, or whatever they use, they'd get lost like crazy, and then what'd you do?
Considering that space isn't at a huge premium in Anaheim (even across the street from the main gates at Disneyland there are still some empty lots), I doubt that using something like this would ever become worthwhile.
If space right around Disneyland ever becomes cramped, they can always buy some space somewhere else, put in a parking lot/structure and tram people in, like they do already. The employee parking lots are even farther than the guest parking structure, but Disney provides a free shuttle.
Well, I've seen that commercial before, except it was for Jacoby & Myers of southern California. So, there's at least one other law firm using it.
"and it's true, there is new energy streaming in from the sun - but I haven't seen a viable attempt to actually use that energy now"
I have...it's called farming. We're talking about abundance of everything, not just fuel. The point is that the amount of resources of any kind is not a static amount.
You think it's bad now (well, actually two days ago, that's when they closed the 1.10 beta)? According to Blizzard's LoD page, ladder games in the final 1.10 will be even harder than the beta!
"Ladder Games offer a more challenging type of gameplay than players will find in Normal Games. Monster AI speeds have been increased. Reaction times increased for Ladder Nightmare and Hell games. Basically every monster acts like a super unique. Monster Hit Points have been increased for Nightmare and Hell Ladder games too."
""Renaissance" was a projection of events as understood by the people of Zion. Take the scene where the robots slave like the ancient egyptians? Clearly this is an error; but it's very likely that the survivers are not the people in the developed world, are not the people who dwel in megacities. Maybe no survivor knew about cranes, catapilars, etc."
What about people who were unplugged from the matrix? They would know about cranes and other such things.
The Second Rennaissance is very symbolic, maybe too symbolic, but I just took that scene to be another symbol about how evil humans are or whatever.
I live in Orange County, and despite what this movie makes it out to be...it sucks. Just wanted you guys to know :)
Um...that's why you buy one...
Funny how he only missed first post by a minute, but it's all the way down here...
Anyway, why the fuck does everyone keep bitching about the GBA screen?! It's the same as the Gameboy and Gameboy Color screens, and at least it's GOOD color, unlike Gameboy Color. What the fuck are you trying to do, play it in the dark? Turn on the light, you dipshits. This bitching is starting to piss me off...
Finally, something suited to my needs. This mouse will make my late-night masterbation binges so much easier!
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