I'm somewhat of a military buff myself. I met a Norwegian once, and I knew that they all serve in the military unless they're cowards. I asked him in a friendly, inquisitive manner, "So, what kind of infantry weapon does Norway use?" "A gun," he replied. Undeterred, I asked, "What kind of APC did you serve in?" He said, "A green one."
No wonder the USA gave up on the conscript army concept after the Vietnam experience.
Negative...putting a bullet into a plane's skin would not cause the widespread damage that this electrical weapon would cause. It's quite possible that the bullet would pass through and not be noticed until landing. Plus, hitting a plane at a few hundred feet altitude moving 150 mph is not an easy feat. This weapon hits instantaneously and merely needs to be pointed and clicked at its target. I'm actually surprised applications such as this have not been adapted to air defense.
Are the organizers of the hunt French by any chance? I seem to remember a substantial portion of their population rooting for Americans to die by the thousands recently.
Frodo and co. would have died (or worse) by the hand of Old Man Willow, before the Deus Ex Machina of Tom Bombadil happened to jog along at just the right moment.
If you have permanent death in a game, you just make it harder to die. That, or make it easy to start over. Look at nethack, it's one of the most popular games in history, and it not only includes permanent character death, but also includes all sorts of nasty and insidious ways to instantly die ("Thou durse call upon me? Then die, mortal!--More-- The lightning bolt hits!--More--You die.").
Movie? I was talking about the book. The "psychokinetic tricks" are pure fabrication, probably to appeal to the same people who like kung fu movies like "The Matrix". And calling them "psychokinetic" implies that they are psychic powers, which they are most certainly not.
One thing I really like about Middle-Earth is how few Wizards there are, and how they're not using wizardly powers to heat their coffee, unicorn horns to "burn off" drunkenness, and other idiot things that are so prevalent in other crappy pulp fantasy fiction. I can count on one hand the number of times Gandalf used magic.
Too bad they're dumbing down the game in order to appeal to the masses. It'll be just like every other game out there, only with Official Middle-Earth Theme[tm].
I was involved in a federal case where the defendant was accused of unauthorized access because he used EXPN and VRFY to determine a range of email addresses to mailbomb. I thought it was bullshit, and faxed them a copy of this page (God forbid they use email) indicating that these commands were publically availible to anyone on the internet, but the prosecutors weren't particularly interested and were rather disappointed at my opinion.
You'd be shocked at the crap that tourists pay big dollars to go see. Moldy old cathedrals, collections of teddy bears and thumbtacks from the 1910s, chamber pots from dead towns, buddha statues, cable cars, mountains you can't climb but only see, sea beasts swimming around...there's no limit to the idiocy that people will spend money on. Heck, NASA in Houston is a major tourist attraction in its own right, and the thing is 100% ground-based.
Yaknow, I wouldn't have nearly as big a problem with vegheads if they didn't take every single freaking opportunity to broadcast to the world how utterly supercool they are...er...aol.com? OK I think I understand now.
But welfare *is* listed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which supercedes the ancient creaky U.S.A. Constitution written by white slaveowners.
Halo isn't "by" Microsoft. It's by Bungie. Halo is just Tribes 1 without the jumpjet pack (the best feature of Tribes IMO). Microsoft simply distributes the game. And of course Halo wouldn't even exist for the Xbox without MS's blessing.
Is it me, or is this story a dupe? Perhaps it is actually a triple. Let's see...story posted by michael, check. Slashdot editors aggressively disinterested in their own site, check. Refusal to acknowledge comments are important or even relevant, check.
That is indeed insightful. You're right. Instead of using our chemistry courses to teach the scientific method, we should be teaching how to create explosives. Let's go back to the 1900s, when any child could walk into a pharmacy and purchase nitro and opium, cheerfully dispensed by the neighborhood chemist.
They have to put that on there...let's just say soldiers aren't too particularly bright. And I'm talking about motivated American volunteer soldiers, the European conscripts are far worse in skill level.
I was more talking about idiots who bitch at players who make the 'wrong play' at third base. God, people who don't understand randomness or mathematics piss me off.
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Nobody gives a shit what your GPA is after you get out of college. Unless you're going to be a law clerk at the supreme court or something.
You realize only people over 35 are even going to get that reference???
No wonder the USA gave up on the conscript army concept after the Vietnam experience.
Mmmm...ask football recruiters for big schools like Miami and Ohio. I bet they could tell you. I bet you would be horrified.
Plus, if his objective was to screw up the test, why did he bring a calculator?
I said, "during takeoff". That's when the plane is a hundred feet or so off the ground.
Negative...putting a bullet into a plane's skin would not cause the widespread damage that this electrical weapon would cause. It's quite possible that the bullet would pass through and not be noticed until landing. Plus, hitting a plane at a few hundred feet altitude moving 150 mph is not an easy feat. This weapon hits instantaneously and merely needs to be pointed and clicked at its target. I'm actually surprised applications such as this have not been adapted to air defense.
So, what would this do to an airplane? One that's, say, in the takeoff phase, heavily loaded with fuel and hundreds of passengers on board?
Are the organizers of the hunt French by any chance? I seem to remember a substantial portion of their population rooting for Americans to die by the thousands recently.
Frodo and co. would have died (or worse) by the hand of Old Man Willow, before the Deus Ex Machina of Tom Bombadil happened to jog along at just the right moment.
If you have permanent death in a game, you just make it harder to die. That, or make it easy to start over. Look at nethack, it's one of the most popular games in history, and it not only includes permanent character death, but also includes all sorts of nasty and insidious ways to instantly die ("Thou durse call upon me? Then die, mortal!--More-- The lightning bolt hits!--More--You die.").
Movie? I was talking about the book. The "psychokinetic tricks" are pure fabrication, probably to appeal to the same people who like kung fu movies like "The Matrix". And calling them "psychokinetic" implies that they are psychic powers, which they are most certainly not.
Too bad they're dumbing down the game in order to appeal to the masses. It'll be just like every other game out there, only with Official Middle-Earth Theme[tm].
The charge was eventually dropped at any rate.
Sydney to NY would be yesterday delivery. Silly Australians, always getting everything backwards.
You'd be shocked at the crap that tourists pay big dollars to go see. Moldy old cathedrals, collections of teddy bears and thumbtacks from the 1910s, chamber pots from dead towns, buddha statues, cable cars, mountains you can't climb but only see, sea beasts swimming around...there's no limit to the idiocy that people will spend money on. Heck, NASA in Houston is a major tourist attraction in its own right, and the thing is 100% ground-based.
Yaknow, I wouldn't have nearly as big a problem with vegheads if they didn't take every single freaking opportunity to broadcast to the world how utterly supercool they are...er...aol.com? OK I think I understand now.
But welfare *is* listed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which supercedes the ancient creaky U.S.A. Constitution written by white slaveowners.
The point being, MS didn't have shit all to do with the creation of Tribes (Halo). And everyone thinks they do. It's like MS made Close Combat...nah.
Halo isn't "by" Microsoft. It's by Bungie. Halo is just Tribes 1 without the jumpjet pack (the best feature of Tribes IMO). Microsoft simply distributes the game. And of course Halo wouldn't even exist for the Xbox without MS's blessing.
Is it me, or is this story a dupe? Perhaps it is actually a triple. Let's see...story posted by michael, check. Slashdot editors aggressively disinterested in their own site, check. Refusal to acknowledge comments are important or even relevant, check.
That is indeed insightful. You're right. Instead of using our chemistry courses to teach the scientific method, we should be teaching how to create explosives. Let's go back to the 1900s, when any child could walk into a pharmacy and purchase nitro and opium, cheerfully dispensed by the neighborhood chemist.
They have to put that on there...let's just say soldiers aren't too particularly bright. And I'm talking about motivated American volunteer soldiers, the European conscripts are far worse in skill level.
I was more talking about idiots who bitch at players who make the 'wrong play' at third base. God, people who don't understand randomness or mathematics piss me off.
I think the Trek writers are doing whatever seems expedient to them at the moment, and not caring a fig for canon or How Things Happened.