Regulators wouldn't allow the merger in a million years. AMD merging with ATI then Nvidia merging with both would result in a single graphics chip maker in their market (high end video), which would have massive antitrust implications.
Refusing to go outside is a simple precaution. Considering the sheer volume of gang members relative to the population of the town(One good metric to use would be the unemployment rate, which is 50%), it's a reasonable one too.
A more reasonable group of them would realise that the entire native population of North America at the time wasn't even close to equal to the number of people killed in Maos purges.
China's policies have resulted in the deaths of between 10 and 100 million people. After you factor out the spread of disease from Europe in the Americas, which was tragic, but not malicious for the most part(Germ theory hadn't been invented yet, though apparently Cortez figured out something was killing the Aztecs and gave them smallpox infected blankets), there simply weren't that many natives left in north america. It's safe to say between 100,000 and 11,000,000.
I've seen what happens to people who get too involved in protecting themselves. I've felt what it feels like to have my options cut off by "Oh, I can't do that! I might be hurt!".
Screw that. I'd rather be free, happy, and threatened than stifled, stressed, and safe.
On that topic, I've done quite a bit of research into ultracapacitor starter sytems because I'm far north and batteries have a tendancy to die very quickly up here, and a tendancy of losing their ability to deliver a charge around -40C. You CAN start a car with an ultracapacitor. You can even start a piece of diesel equipment, there's a company that sells them. The problem is that they cost more than a used car to tow your truck around with.
I could see a plasma explosion resulting from dielectric failure in an ultracapacitor, but only in something so massive you shouldn't be standing in front of it anyway.
Deus Ex wasn't terribly innovative. System Shock 2 had most of the same ideas years before, and System Shock 1 had most of THOSE ideas years and years before.
The difference is, Deus Ex did some things right that System Shock 2 didn't, like making their guns more durable than styrofoam cups.
I'd love to chat with them, but most of them in this town are members of the racist street gang "the Indian Posse", and tend to do very bad things to people who don't look like them(and, to a lesser degree, people who DO look like them).
I remember having to get a new babysitter because ours left town after being beaten because of her skin colour. Maybe I should talk with the natives who did that to her?
We're talking about China here, right? I mean, the one with Mao, responsible for the massacre of millions of people? The China that makes the Holocaust look like a party with punch and pie?
Cheating at the olympics is probably the LEAST evil thing they've done.
Not only that, they carry large amounts of the industrial solvent dihydrogen monoxide. This chemical is used in nuclear reactors, is often mixed with powerful acids and bases, and in relatively small quantities, can cause death due to respritory distress.
Not only that, but they end up FEEDING it to PASSENGERS.
We ought to ban this chemical, or at least its use on airplanes!
If I was doing a Reliability Centered Maintenance program for the airlines, and this failure mode came up, it would rank very very low on my scale in terms of human risk, and we probably wouldn't take any actions to mitigate or prevent it. Someone's battery bursting into flames probably won't cause more than slight injury. It won't cause major damage to the aircraft. It won't cause any environmental impact to speak of.
I'd even go so far as to say the risk to my airline's reputation by continuing to stupidly and arbitrarily ban objects would outweigh the risk to my airline's reputation by one of these things catching fire. It's not like the plane will ever be in any danger.
On the other hand, I stopped being risk-averse when I realised I live in a town where I could be beaten, stabbed, or shot by members of the street gang Indian Posse. Do I hide and give up on life so they can't take mine, or do I live my life, accepting that there are risks in simply leaving the house?
Opposition to terrorism is mostly for show. Most of this post-9/11 crap is.
Gee, the department of homeland security, eh? Tell me, would their job be DEFENDING people in our country? Maybe we should have a department of defense instead?
Oh wait! We've got one of those, but all it's interested in is bombing the middle east!
What exactly does that have to do with gas mileage?
600CC cars from Japan get 70MPG on the highway, but their emissions mean they need to replace the motor with bigger, much less efficient motors to get emissions down.
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Regulators wouldn't allow the merger in a million years. AMD merging with ATI then Nvidia merging with both would result in a single graphics chip maker in their market (high end video), which would have massive antitrust implications.
Dude, your wife sounds mean.
Refusing to go outside is a simple precaution. Considering the sheer volume of gang members relative to the population of the town(One good metric to use would be the unemployment rate, which is 50%), it's a reasonable one too.
Most settlers werent soliders. The incredibly weak immunity against smallpox couldn't have been anticipated by the people of the day.
A more reasonable group of them would realise that the entire native population of North America at the time wasn't even close to equal to the number of people killed in Maos purges.
China's policies have resulted in the deaths of between 10 and 100 million people. After you factor out the spread of disease from Europe in the Americas, which was tragic, but not malicious for the most part(Germ theory hadn't been invented yet, though apparently Cortez figured out something was killing the Aztecs and gave them smallpox infected blankets), there simply weren't that many natives left in north america. It's safe to say between 100,000 and 11,000,000.
I've seen what happens to people who get too involved in protecting themselves. I've felt what it feels like to have my options cut off by "Oh, I can't do that! I might be hurt!".
Screw that. I'd rather be free, happy, and threatened than stifled, stressed, and safe.
Don't use water to extinguish a fire caused by lithium. Lithium and water tend to do bad things.
Explosion/fire is a possible failure mode of Lithium Ion batteries.
If you don't like it, don't use products that use Lithium Ion batteries.
On that topic, I've done quite a bit of research into ultracapacitor starter sytems because I'm far north and batteries have a tendancy to die very quickly up here, and a tendancy of losing their ability to deliver a charge around -40C. You CAN start a car with an ultracapacitor. You can even start a piece of diesel equipment, there's a company that sells them. The problem is that they cost more than a used car to tow your truck around with.
I could see a plasma explosion resulting from dielectric failure in an ultracapacitor, but only in something so massive you shouldn't be standing in front of it anyway.
If I'm going to update my chemical name, I'll be going with Hydroxic Acid, thank you very much.
Deus Ex wasn't terribly innovative. System Shock 2 had most of the same ideas years before, and System Shock 1 had most of THOSE ideas years and years before.
The difference is, Deus Ex did some things right that System Shock 2 didn't, like making their guns more durable than styrofoam cups.
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I'd love to chat with them, but most of them in this town are members of the racist street gang "the Indian Posse", and tend to do very bad things to people who don't look like them(and, to a lesser degree, people who DO look like them).
I remember having to get a new babysitter because ours left town after being beaten because of her skin colour. Maybe I should talk with the natives who did that to her?
Yes, if there's one lesson to be learned from electronic engineering, it's this: It's all fun and games until someone brings up Quantum Physics.
I became so disillusioned when I learned about tunneler diodes. I thought I was safe from that quantum physics crap.
Who cares if you're selling 10,000 instead of 1,000,000 if you're making 1000 times the profit?
The pope finds your lack of faith distrubing.
We're talking about China here, right? I mean, the one with Mao, responsible for the massacre of millions of people? The China that makes the Holocaust look like a party with punch and pie?
Cheating at the olympics is probably the LEAST evil thing they've done.
Not only that, they carry large amounts of the industrial solvent dihydrogen monoxide. This chemical is used in nuclear reactors, is often mixed with powerful acids and bases, and in relatively small quantities, can cause death due to respritory distress.
Not only that, but they end up FEEDING it to PASSENGERS.
We ought to ban this chemical, or at least its use on airplanes!
If I was doing a Reliability Centered Maintenance program for the airlines, and this failure mode came up, it would rank very very low on my scale in terms of human risk, and we probably wouldn't take any actions to mitigate or prevent it. Someone's battery bursting into flames probably won't cause more than slight injury. It won't cause major damage to the aircraft. It won't cause any environmental impact to speak of.
I'd even go so far as to say the risk to my airline's reputation by continuing to stupidly and arbitrarily ban objects would outweigh the risk to my airline's reputation by one of these things catching fire. It's not like the plane will ever be in any danger.
On the other hand, I stopped being risk-averse when I realised I live in a town where I could be beaten, stabbed, or shot by members of the street gang Indian Posse. Do I hide and give up on life so they can't take mine, or do I live my life, accepting that there are risks in simply leaving the house?
Opposition to terrorism is mostly for show. Most of this post-9/11 crap is.
Gee, the department of homeland security, eh? Tell me, would their job be DEFENDING people in our country? Maybe we should have a department of defense instead?
Oh wait! We've got one of those, but all it's interested in is bombing the middle east!
Exactly. Ford has a crap reputation anyway, why bother wasting money on recalls?
Yep, ONE of the commie cheques was 600 bucks.
Software developers at Microsoft at most other major companies are working effectively for free compared to the profits made through their work.
Well, they do that in Canada, and as a result the RIAA has no real moral high ground for their lawsuits, so file sharing is quasi-legal.
Of course, they just wanted kickbacks before the internet, but I'm sure they're kicking themselves for their greed now. Go figure?
What exactly does that have to do with gas mileage?
600CC cars from Japan get 70MPG on the highway, but their emissions mean they need to replace the motor with bigger, much less efficient motors to get emissions down.