Has anyone ever even considered the massive amounts of time and energy needed to travel... say... 40,000 light years from Earth. The energy alone needed to make such a trip with *laugh* rocket fuel would make harvesting energy from the black hole useless. Moreover, it would take generations just to get there, and generations to communicate back to Earth that you got there. If you weren't sucked up by the huge black hole, and you did send a message that got back to Earth, how would you know there would be anyone left?
I say, let's try getting out of our solar system before we start talking about interstellar travel, not to mention travelling thousands of light years.
Hey, time to start burning some books! I know this is reminiscent of something in history, but next time I go to the library I probably won't be able to pull out my favorite history book to find out because it'll probably have been destroyed.
I find it fascinating that I'm usually the oldest person playing on my favorite Counterstrike server and I'm 19. Most of the people playing are between 12 and 16. Ratings don't seem to matter to them very much, as they didn't matter much to me when I played Wolfenstein the first time in 3rd grade (or Doom in 6th grade).
Now, what I find ironic is the Counterstrike servers that don't allow swearing or porn sprays. So on these servers, you can watch a lifelike character's head getting blown away in full 3-d detail, but you can't express your disgust at the wall-hack cheater who capped you when you weren't looking, or show the newest fake nude photo of Britney Spears you found on the net by typing Britney into Google's image browser. I say if you're going to desensitize today's youth to death and violence, we might as well desensitize them to swearing and porn.
I mean, there is sort of a double standard with violence. When I worked at Blockbuster, a lady came in with her kids and they got the Matrix. She asked why it was rated R and checked the back to make sure there was no nudity in it. She was perfectly comfortable letting her kids see the graphic scenes of pure violence, but heaven forbid they see the semblence of a nude figure at such an age.
I dunno. I think we just all live in a very crazy world. I'm glad I'm too much of a nerd to ever get a girl and have kids.
I'm American so I get annoyed as lots of us do about crazy British spelling.:) If you guys had gotten spelling right the first time, we wouldn't have had to change everything. Geez.:P
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Has anyone ever even considered the massive amounts of time and energy needed to travel... say... 40,000 light years from Earth. The energy alone needed to make such a trip with *laugh* rocket fuel would make harvesting energy from the black hole useless. Moreover, it would take generations just to get there, and generations to communicate back to Earth that you got there. If you weren't sucked up by the huge black hole, and you did send a message that got back to Earth, how would you know there would be anyone left?
I say, let's try getting out of our solar system before we start talking about interstellar travel, not to mention travelling thousands of light years.
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Yeah, I noticed that. I have stock in Redhat (cause I love them so much) and was thoroughly amazed to see it rise so much in one day.
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Well, it certainly would give new meaning to the term "virus".
I'll stick with my Tandy for now.
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Hey, time to start burning some books! I know this is reminiscent of something in history, but next time I go to the library I probably won't be able to pull out my favorite history book to find out because it'll probably have been destroyed.
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I find it fascinating that I'm usually the oldest person playing on my favorite Counterstrike server and I'm 19. Most of the people playing are between 12 and 16. Ratings don't seem to matter to them very much, as they didn't matter much to me when I played Wolfenstein the first time in 3rd grade (or Doom in 6th grade).
Now, what I find ironic is the Counterstrike servers that don't allow swearing or porn sprays. So on these servers, you can watch a lifelike character's head getting blown away in full 3-d detail, but you can't express your disgust at the wall-hack cheater who capped you when you weren't looking, or show the newest fake nude photo of Britney Spears you found on the net by typing Britney into Google's image browser. I say if you're going to desensitize today's youth to death and violence, we might as well desensitize them to swearing and porn.
I mean, there is sort of a double standard with violence. When I worked at Blockbuster, a lady came in with her kids and they got the Matrix. She asked why it was rated R and checked the back to make sure there was no nudity in it. She was perfectly comfortable letting her kids see the graphic scenes of pure violence, but heaven forbid they see the semblence of a nude figure at such an age.
I dunno. I think we just all live in a very crazy world. I'm glad I'm too much of a nerd to ever get a girl and have kids.
Give Ashcroft a little slack here, we all say crazy things when we're drunk.
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I'm American so I get annoyed as lots of us do about crazy British spelling. :) If you guys had gotten spelling right the first time, we wouldn't have had to change everything. Geez. :P