Sounds (and looks) cool, but does it actually work?
I mean, it probably does work, in the right circumstances. But on the slopes, after a few falls, does it still work well or do you need to pound away at your arm like a madman?
"There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. I eat cream, butter, and bacon; I just don't eat pounds of it at a time. "
This kind of thinking gets people in loads of trouble. Sure, a sip a cream or a pat of butter or a piece of bacon once a month wouldn't do anybody any harm. But once these foods are included in the diet, it's easy for them to become habits.
What? You disagree with what he says, and then you say the same thing in other words!
If you have a habit of eating double cheese burgers with bacon you have bad food habits!
If you eat it once in a while, you don't. Its not eating it that's wrong, its eating it in great quantities, repeatadly.
The USA was the #1 polluter in 1970. Now it ranks #4. Get your numbers straight.
I'm sorry, Tinky Winky didn't send me the memo!
I mean, you get to make up phony statistics
Just like you just did? yay!
NO scientific debate! EVER!
All hail lord John Worfin? Maybe, just MAYBE, you should get your facts straight and look at the science behind environmental concerns instead of declaring that there is no science. Really, you accuse others of doing what you're just doing right there and now, come on!
It must be nice to be an environmentalist. Actually, its quite depressing...
They have less complexity than your average 1800's cannon battle. And seem to occur at about the same relative ranges between ships.
Well, shooting battle scenes using scale models is hard to do, now that they got computer animation we might get a bit more complexity.
No release of active diffusive substances Two things: 1)Space is HUGE, so diffuse substance get thin fast, and 2)They did, tachyon grids to catch romulans crossing the neutral zone border.
no "warping of space" to defocus/redirect laser/phaser shots. Come on! They use that in EVERY SINGLE SHOW, they call them SHIELDS! Geez!
No sensor confusion technology. What? They didn't do enough cloaking ship shows for you? And there was a TNG show were they fooled the other ship's computer in showing recorded sensor readings as true. + There's the Picard maneuver.
No use of space time delay Again: Picard maneuver.
The moon is 1 second away. The sun is 8 minutes away. The sun could blow up now we would not see it for 8 minutes. So any time the say "opps" there goes the star/planet they should have to wait 8 minutes (or other time) to see/feel it. Well, if they were looking at it with they're bare eyes they would, but they have that nifty subspace FTL sensor technology ya know...
No use of gravity well orbital mechanics. And I suppose Joe Sixpack would go "W00t! ch3ck 0ut th4t l33t us3 0f gravity well orbital blablabla"? Come on! They have to dumb this down to the american viewing public's level! I'm amazed they get away with mentioning anything except nascar or pro wrestling!;- )
Still some of the worst gravity well/ non-Newtonian physics based "space" environments. You can classify it as "fantasy" as it certainly is not based on physics as we know it.
No, it is based on the Star Trek hypotethical future physics (anything with the word "warp" in it is non-newtonian). And most of all, its TV physics. TV has an alternate set of rules: Every explosion is a gas explosion (looks better), things in space make sounds, if you look at something with binoculars you can hear the background noises, etc.
This whining is of the same level of "Star Trek is l4m3 because all their aliens are humanoids!". Well, find some non humanoid actors and then they'll hire them. Its a tv show filmed in the real world by real people with a limited (if big) budget. They have technical issues wich they cannot get around.
the plotlines in B5 were far superior to anything on StarTrek
You mean, long-term story arcs that were elaborated over many episodes instead of being introduced and resolved in a single 42 minute show? Well, they got to point at Star Trek and say: "see, a sci-fi show can make money and last a long time, look at star trek" and so they got to have contracts that could include long-term story arcs. Its got nothing to do with Star Trek itself, its in the hands of the people who own and manage the franchise (die Berman DIE!).
+ I liked Wesley, its nice to have a kid you can relate too in the show you watch
Well you're way ahead of them in pollution. USA #1 Polluter! Yay! U-S-A! U-S-A!
The reason why the US won't sign the kyoto treaty is because they have the Bomb, and they have a god given right to poison the rest of the world (and to bomb it).
Most of india and china are rural, in the medieval ox-cart sense of the word. They need to catch up to the industrialised nation and get out of their rut. In case you haven't noticed, the US is the most industralised nation in the world and doesn't need to catch up. Personally I'm amazed to know that you still use coal as an energy source...what is this? The 18th century? The world needs treaties to force people to stop poisoning their neighbours for fun and profit.
"If we do that, the environmentalist win!" - Homer Simpson
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Ok, its not much, but it still amazed me.
At my old job, we had a lot of interns (wich the boss saw as free labour), one particular intern once had his computer screen go blank on him. So he called me up to help. I go there and knowing the computer, and the guy, I figure he had kicked off the power cable again. But I could still hear its fan humming... I turn the case around slowly, all the cables are still pluged in, so I proceed to push 'em back in (the case was at the cable's limit...big stupid table, not my idea, anyways...). The guy (same intern who admitedly didn't know much about computers) reaches across me and YANKS THE POWER CABLE OUT.
Long story short it turns out the monitor was defective and would shut itself down when it got hot, but I came very close to punching that intern in the face. ARGH!
Music made for videogames will be heard by the listener over and over again. As far as I know videogames are the only media where that's a given. How does that affect the creation process?
Ok, first things first: Get the kid out of the militia he's in (against his will). Then get him fed, cleaned, clothed, a house, some basic education (ABCs, etc) and clean water. Then, get him electricity, and then give him an old obsolete computer.
In the meantime, let people recycle things if they want to, its a good habit to have.
Just look at a site like Slashdot.org, supposedly visited by intelligent people.
Oh! You were expecting some kind of elitist intellectual website? Sorry, they haven't instituted a minimum IQ level yet, but I'm sure your offtopic blasting of a humorous cartton is a first step towards making/. a new and better place for intelligent people to discuss things that really matter.
The Simpsons is insidious corporate tool designed to use irony and cynicsm to lure people into complacency. [...] Sad they don't realize that they have surrendured the ability to think for themselves to a frivolous cartoon.
"Oh, Marge, cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."
ou people have what for defense? Guys in bright red "Shoot Me Now, Please, Sir" jackets riding around on horses, for god's sake
Bah, all you guys have are so called marines dressed all in white who are only good at twirling their guns around like cheerleaders...not only is that pathetic but its kinda girly.
and you can't even own guns to defend yourSELVES
Yeah, nobody can get a gun permit in canada, its just impossible! All those hunters forced to hunt bare handed...that's so sad.
the only reason Canada is immune to attack and doesn't HAVE to go to war is simply because it happens to share [...] protection of the most powerful military power in the world.
Yes, the US military clearly made the US "immune to attack" like you said. No one EVER flew a plane in a US building, they're all too scared of the gun throwing cheerleaders!
God has written to humankind a book that explains all these things away...
No, people wrote that book, claiming to have been inspired by angels or talking shruberries to do it.
Check your facts, swine. (And no, claiming "god created everything and so he created the people who wrote and edited it and so he created it" doesn't count as checking your facts.)
I have a hard time looking at [...(lots of good looking bits of nature and scenery)..] and not believing that IS "hard evidence" of a creative force much greater than myself or any writer/painter/craftsman/slashdotter could ever dream of possessing.
"Wow! That's some big mountain...I bet a man-shaped super creature created it, in 7 days, and wants me to stone lesbians to death."
So nature is great, how can you take THAT as proof that your religion is true? How is that not proof that hindus are right? Or that the ancient greeks were right? All religion capitalize on the awe we feel when looking at cool nature stuff, they all have different explanations of all it all started, and they all want you to obey their rules "or else". What makes your religion more true than the next? Where's the hard evidence that God think its wrong to wear a 50% coton shirt?
Some people would say that the complexity and nature of the universe demands the existence of God. To me, this is hard evidence.
Observation: The world/universe is very complex. Conclusion: An anthropomorphic super being created it all! And its a He! And He doesn't want me to eat bat meat!
I'd also note that the Bible contains numerous examples of God acting directly and obviously, and people disobeyed Him anyway.
Yeah, like when he told Frodo to not draw attention to himself and he goes and puts the Ring on in the middle of a crowded tavern... Oh wait, we were talking about actual hard evidence, not something written in some thick book...my mistake.
Would it be so hard to show up once in a while in giant beard in the sky flaming glory and use his booming voice to tell everyone "90d wuz h3r3"? You know, actual hard evidence, not the smile of a newborn baby or some book, real actual stuff you can look at and say "Whoa, there's god, would you look at that! All glorious and everything".
I think its very unhealthy to focus on anything the but the simplest concept. (not to bitch at you or anything, but there are so many similar comments up there...)
I just hope the bucks don't stop there...maybe a few lawers could donate an hour here and there...
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Sounds (and looks) cool, but does it actually work?
I mean, it probably does work, in the right circumstances. But on the slopes, after a few falls, does it still work well or do you need to pound away at your arm like a madman?
"There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. I eat cream, butter, and bacon; I just don't eat pounds of it at a time. "
This kind of thinking gets people in loads of trouble. Sure, a sip a cream or a pat of butter or a piece of bacon once a month wouldn't do anybody any harm. But once these foods are included in the diet, it's easy for them to become habits.
What? You disagree with what he says, and then you say the same thing in other words!
If you have a habit of eating double cheese burgers with bacon you have bad food habits!
If you eat it once in a while, you don't.
Its not eating it that's wrong, its eating it in great quantities, repeatadly.
The USA was the #1 polluter in 1970. Now it ranks #4. Get your numbers straight.
I'm sorry, Tinky Winky didn't send me the memo!
I mean, you get to make up phony statistics
Just like you just did? yay!
NO scientific debate! EVER!
All hail lord John Worfin?
Maybe, just MAYBE, you should get your facts straight and look at the science behind environmental concerns instead of declaring that there is no science.
Really, you accuse others of doing what you're just doing right there and now, come on!
It must be nice to be an environmentalist.
Actually, its quite depressing...
They have less complexity than your average 1800's cannon battle. And seem to occur at about the same relative ranges between ships.
;- )
Well, shooting battle scenes using scale models is hard to do, now that they got computer animation we might get a bit more complexity.
No release of active diffusive substances
Two things: 1)Space is HUGE, so diffuse substance get thin fast, and 2)They did, tachyon grids to catch romulans crossing the neutral zone border.
no "warping of space" to defocus/redirect laser/phaser shots.
Come on! They use that in EVERY SINGLE SHOW, they call them SHIELDS! Geez!
No sensor confusion technology.
What? They didn't do enough cloaking ship shows for you?
And there was a TNG show were they fooled the other ship's computer in showing recorded sensor readings as true. + There's the Picard maneuver.
No use of space time delay
Again: Picard maneuver.
The moon is 1 second away. The sun is 8 minutes away. The sun could blow up now we would not see it for 8 minutes. So any time the say "opps" there goes the star/planet they should have to wait 8 minutes (or other time) to see/feel it.
Well, if they were looking at it with they're bare eyes they would, but they have that nifty subspace FTL sensor technology ya know...
No use of gravity well orbital mechanics.
And I suppose Joe Sixpack would go "W00t! ch3ck 0ut th4t l33t us3 0f gravity well orbital blablabla"? Come on! They have to dumb this down to the american viewing public's level! I'm amazed they get away with mentioning anything except nascar or pro wrestling!
Still some of the worst gravity well/ non-Newtonian physics based "space" environments. You can classify it as "fantasy" as it certainly is not based on physics as we know it.
No, it is based on the Star Trek hypotethical future physics (anything with the word "warp" in it is non-newtonian).
And most of all, its TV physics. TV has an alternate set of rules: Every explosion is a gas explosion (looks better), things in space make sounds, if you look at something with binoculars you can hear the background noises, etc.
This whining is of the same level of "Star Trek is l4m3 because all their aliens are humanoids!". Well, find some non humanoid actors and then they'll hire them. Its a tv show filmed in the real world by real people with a limited (if big) budget. They have technical issues wich they cannot get around.
First /. posts a story on how Star Trek isn't original enough, now they have framed captain Kirk for murder!
;- )
For shame!
Slashdot editors have a Star Wars bias...
the plotlines in B5 were far superior to anything on StarTrek
You mean, long-term story arcs that were elaborated over many episodes instead of being introduced and resolved in a single 42 minute show?
Well, they got to point at Star Trek and say: "see, a sci-fi show can make money and last a long time, look at star trek" and so they got to have contracts that could include long-term story arcs.
Its got nothing to do with Star Trek itself, its in the hands of the people who own and manage the franchise (die Berman DIE!).
+ I liked Wesley, its nice to have a kid you can relate too in the show you watch
Well you're way ahead of them in pollution. USA #1 Polluter! Yay! U-S-A! U-S-A!
The reason why the US won't sign the kyoto treaty is because they have the Bomb, and they have a god given right to poison the rest of the world (and to bomb it).
Most of india and china are rural, in the medieval ox-cart sense of the word. They need to catch up to the industrialised nation and get out of their rut. In case you haven't noticed, the US is the most industralised nation in the world and doesn't need to catch up.
Personally I'm amazed to know that you still use coal as an energy source...what is this? The 18th century? The world needs treaties to force people to stop poisoning their neighbours for fun and profit.
"If we do that, the environmentalist win!" - Homer Simpson
Ok, its not much, but it still amazed me.
.
At my old job, we had a lot of interns (wich the boss saw as free labour), one particular intern once had his computer screen go blank on him. So he called me up to help. I go there and knowing the computer, and the guy, I figure he had kicked off the power cable again. But I could still hear its fan humming... I turn the case around slowly, all the cables are still pluged in, so I proceed to push 'em back in (the case was at the cable's limit...big stupid table, not my idea, anyways...).
The guy (same intern who admitedly didn't know much about computers) reaches across me and YANKS THE POWER CABLE OUT.
Long story short it turns out the monitor was defective and would shut itself down when it got hot, but I came very close to punching that intern in the face
ARGH!
Well, they have to announce it to enhance shareholder's value.
+ they need to lay the foundation for the hype of the future.
Music made for videogames will be heard by the listener over and over again. As far as I know videogames are the only media where that's a given.
How does that affect the creation process?
(hihihi, repetition, mod me down people!)
Music made for videogames will be heard by the listener over and over again. As far as I know videogames are the only media where that's a given.
How does that affect the creation process?
Now if I could only get wireless power...
Tesla would be proud of you! : )
Ok, first things first: Get the kid out of the militia he's in (against his will). Then get him fed, cleaned, clothed, a house, some basic education (ABCs, etc) and clean water.
Then, get him electricity, and then give him an old obsolete computer.
In the meantime, let people recycle things if they want to, its a good habit to have.
Ok, lets clarify: Legal and not utterly crappy.
Just look at a site like Slashdot.org, supposedly visited by intelligent people.
/. a new and better place for intelligent people to discuss things that really matter.
Oh! You were expecting some kind of elitist intellectual website? Sorry, they haven't instituted a minimum IQ level yet, but I'm sure your offtopic blasting of a humorous cartton is a first step towards making
The Simpsons is insidious corporate tool designed to use irony and cynicsm to lure people into complacency. [...] Sad they don't realize that they have surrendured the ability to think for themselves to a frivolous cartoon.
"Oh, Marge, cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."
ou people have what for defense? Guys in bright red "Shoot Me Now, Please, Sir" jackets riding around on horses, for god's sake
Bah, all you guys have are so called marines dressed all in white who are only good at twirling their guns around like cheerleaders...not only is that pathetic but its kinda girly.
and you can't even own guns to defend yourSELVES
Yeah, nobody can get a gun permit in canada, its just impossible! All those hunters forced to hunt bare handed...that's so sad.
the only reason Canada is immune to attack and doesn't HAVE to go to war is simply because it happens to share [...] protection of the most powerful military power in the world.
Yes, the US military clearly made the US "immune to attack" like you said. No one EVER flew a plane in a US building, they're all too scared of the gun throwing cheerleaders!
Pathetic ignorant...
God has written to humankind a book that explains all these things away...
No, people wrote that book, claiming to have been inspired by angels or talking shruberries to do it.
Check your facts, swine.
(And no, claiming "god created everything and so he created the people who wrote and edited it and so he created it" doesn't count as checking your facts.)
God made the world perfectly, however WE have chosen not to follow him and do things our OWN way.
So if people stoned people more often no one would ever get bitten by tarantulas?
WE created deadly e-coli bacterias? Its Adam's fault if poison ivy exists?
so we don't turn into a bunch of spoiled selfish brats. ;- )
So, how do you explain all the spoiled selfish brats out there?
And that means that god is giving people rectal cancer to help them grow. Jeez...pretty harsh.
Monthy python wrote a song about it.
Its basically about the fact that is god created everything, he also purpusefully created siphillis and ugly people...
I have a hard time looking at [...(lots of good looking bits of nature and scenery)..] and not believing that IS "hard evidence" of a creative force much greater than myself or any writer/painter/craftsman/slashdotter could ever dream of possessing.
"Wow! That's some big mountain...I bet a man-shaped super creature created it, in 7 days, and wants me to stone lesbians to death."
So nature is great, how can you take THAT as proof that your religion is true? How is that not proof that hindus are right? Or that the ancient greeks were right?
All religion capitalize on the awe we feel when looking at cool nature stuff, they all have different explanations of all it all started, and they all want you to obey their rules "or else". What makes your religion more true than the next? Where's the hard evidence that God think its wrong to wear a 50% coton shirt?
Hmm if the New Testament were fiction why did so many people fall for it when the very people mentioned in the book were still alive?
For the same reason people buy penis enlargment cream...
Some people would say that the complexity and nature of the universe demands the existence of God. To me, this is hard evidence.
Observation: The world/universe is very complex.
Conclusion: An anthropomorphic super being created it all! And its a He! And He doesn't want me to eat bat meat!
I'd also note that the Bible contains numerous examples of God acting directly and obviously, and people disobeyed Him anyway.
Yeah, like when he told Frodo to not draw attention to himself and he goes and puts the Ring on in the middle of a crowded tavern...
Oh wait, we were talking about actual hard evidence, not something written in some thick book...my mistake.
Would it be so hard to show up once in a while in giant beard in the sky flaming glory and use his booming voice to tell everyone "90d wuz h3r3"? You know, actual hard evidence, not the smile of a newborn baby or some book, real actual stuff you can look at and say "Whoa, there's god, would you look at that! All glorious and everything".
Its gonna do more than 0 dollar.
I think its very unhealthy to focus on anything the but the simplest concept. (not to bitch at you or anything, but there are so many similar comments up there...)
I just hope the bucks don't stop there...maybe a few lawers could donate an hour here and there...
Phil Hartman? Where?
"Its like I'm looking at not-so distant future!"
(Half remembered Selma quote from the Troy McLure ep. of the Simpsons)