I'd give him and audience, then I'd smack him in the head and tell him to piss off. If I wanted kids I would have had em, so don't come bugging me because you felt some desire to be apart of the "great chain" ok? Or something similar.
pfft, as if that could ever happen. I mean, come on, who's ever heard of a scientist becoming a smug bastard because he was rushed through highschool and allowed to enter college early. Seriously, it's not like you can just be a jerk and still be treated with respect. You're certainly not gunna found any multimillion dollar companies and publish your own book because everyone with half a brain thinks you've lost it -- whilst the other half of the scienfic community think you might be onto something if only they could figure out what.
Yep, and I'm sure you'd feel really proud considering that you've had nothing to do with their upbringing and just supplied less than half of their genetic material which was mostly random anyway. But hey, don't let that stop you from taking credit from the people who did the real work of actually raising the kid.
Why do you want to? Seriously. WTF is with people tracking down their birth parents. Genetics mean squat. The people your genetics came from don't represent your genetics anyway, so what's the point of tracking them down? Just so you can ask them why they didn't want to raise you and had enough heart to give you to someone who did?
I bet it's not nearly as hard as they like to think it is. Software made by electrical engineers is always a heck of a lot more complex than it needs to be. I don't even wanna think about software made by mechanical engineers.
You should tell them to mind their own business. The purpose of a role playing game is to play a role. You don't see anyone saying "you're not really a cleric, are you?" because it is assumed that you're only playing the role of a cleric (or a warrior, or a barbarian, or whatever). The problem with WoW is that they've tried to throw out role playing and make it all about "fun" to which you really have to ask, why have a character you can personify? What purpose is there to it?
The whole point of a roleplaying game is that you are not supposed to reveal anything about who you are. You are supposed to roleplay. So if your character is male, you should act male, even if you are female. Much like if you character is a big strong barbarian, you should act like a big strong barbarian, even if you're really a short weak accountant. That's the purpose of the game, to provide an outlet for you to express the parts of your personality that you don't get to express in your everyday life. Questions about whether you're a guy or a girl or what you do for a living in "real life" should be met with distain. You should tell such people to mind their own business and get back to roleplaying.
Dude, no. Choose ANY story and it will fit into any one of these categories. That was my point. It's the reason why people see God in everything that happens to them because any arbitary biblical story can be applied to your life.
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If you give out the game for free before the player has started paying the monthly fee they will go to ridiculous lengths to prove to themself and others that the game sucks. Otherwise they know they're going to pay that monthly fee and they know that isn't good for them.
Gathering He3 from the gas giants in our solar system would be a lot more lucrative. The Moon just happens to be closer. But frankly, there's a heck of a lot more resources on the Moon than He3. Almost all the platinium group metals mined on earth come from meteor impact sites. It costs a lot to mine these metals on earth as erosion has washed most of the meteor away and the only ores left are the ones that fused with earth rocks. On the Moon there's no such erosion, so densities of platinium group metals are expected to be much higher in the millions and millions of craters we see up there. Of course, we don't have the technology to mine this massive wealth today, and we won't have it by 2020.
Thing is, no-one bothers to clone software on Win32 as it is just as easy to write something new as it is to write a clone. The reason people clone software on the Linux platform is because they don't like the license. Don't get me wrong, I write open source software, and I've even been known to clone software, but when you're talking about why small business can't make software for Linux, there's your reason. Oh the other hand, having an individual person/business contract you to make modifications to open source software is something is possible, but it is difficult to find anyone willing to pay a reasonable amount for open source customization.
Uhh, because there's a switching penalty? The reason why satellite has traditionally had such low ping times is because they've been in geostationary orbit, and the propogation delay literally is that far away.
Now choose random book/movie/video game and try to assign them to one of these seven categories. I choose the episode Ariel from FireFly:
The crew helps Simon infiltrate a ritzy planet's hospital for info on the experiments going on at River's school. But as he uncovers the cause of her psychosis, a betrayal by one of the Serenity members puts the Tam siblings back in the hands of the Alliance.
Wow, what category does this fit into? Let's try all of them shall we?
ACHILLES. Simon thinks he's the smartest cookie in the cookie jar, so he plans a flawless crime where both he, his sister and the crew get everything they want, but he forgot his fatal flaw! He's too trusting and Jayne's betrayal leads his plan into jeopardy.
CINDERELLA. Simon's dream to go home with his sister comes true as he once more goes back to core planet and even gets the chance to practice medicine, saving a life and telling off an intern, even though it threatens the job and risks their capture.
CIRCE. Jayne goes along with the plan, even pretending that he's friends with Simon and River but it turns out he was betraying them!!
FAUST. Simon sinks further into the underworld of libertarian crime, but by the end of the tail he learns that criminals can rarely be trusted.
ORPHEUS. The most obvious, the crew decend into hell (a core planet) complete with Simon and River simulating their own deaths to do it. The minions of hell try to claw at them and keep them from escaping but, with the help of their friends, they make it out with a precious secret.
ROMEO and JULIET. Simon would do anything for his sister, including die for her.
TRISTAN and ISOLDE. Simon struggles to repair his sister's damaged brain, ignoring Kaylee's obvious affection for him.
but the concept of a p-zombie really hasn't filtered into the public conciousness.. any film that adequately explained it would probably be smash hit. Simply because we all love zombies and anything novel is, by definition, fun. I wonder if his storyline patent would actually cover a completely different storyline that just happened to include the concept of a p-zombie.
Look, you don't even need to leave the USA to go on a "sex tour". If you live in California, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia or Wisconsin the law says you can't have sex with someone under the age of 18 if you are over the age of 18. So if you live in one of these states and you travel to Ohio, or one of the other states where the age of consent is 16, should you be prohibited from having sex with a 16 year old? If not, then what happens when you return to your home state? Do you get arrested? Of course not, because in the state in which you performed the act you were not breaking the law. Your home state cannot enforce their laws in another state.
If you're going to go to Italy, where the age of consent is 14, and pickup school girls why should you be arrested when you return to the US? As far as the Italian government is concerned you've broken no law, so why should the US government even be involved? They're just fuckin' imperialists.
So if I kill someone in a country that refuses to prosecute me for that crime then I should be lynched the minute I step foot in another country that would? Great! Please send all your hangmen, lethal injecting doctors, electric chair operators and other murderers you refuse to prosecute over to one of the majority of civilized western countries who have outlawed capital punishment.
uh huh. 150km * 2 = 300km / speed of light = 1.000692 ms. We're not talking about geostationary satellites anymore (typically around 238.738 ms ping times, which is still faster than most people on dialup).
Sex tourism laws are fucking insane. The only reason they are tolerated is because they're for a specific heinous act that no-one wants to defend (sex with children). Suppose the exact same laws were applied to drug tourism. Go to Amsterdam, visit a hash cafe, return to the US and get arrested at the airport. Or decompilation tourism. Go to Australia, decompile software to check its security, return to the US and get arrested at the airport. If you're not in the US, you can't commit a crime in the US. That's the way it should be. Otherwise the US is nothing but an imperialist who thinks they can police the world.
If you really wanna go offtopic, let's talk about small business on the Linux platform shall we? If I were to release a version of my software for Linux the immediate response I would get is that it is completely unnecessary, as software like netstat, nettop, and tcplog work flawlessly on Linux, are free, and my software is no better. Supposing my software was actually useful on that platform, someone would most likely demand that I open source it, and when I refused they would clone it and open source their clone. As such, the only software that can be sold on the Linux platform is open source licensed, or is so large that cloning it is beyond the capability of a small group of developers. i.e., only software that is developed by big business can be sold on the Linux platform. Anything within the capabilities of a small business cannot be sold without being cloned, and a small business can't afford to support open source licensed software as the profit margins are too thin. So what's the alternative? If I could develop software for Mac I would.
Uhh, the whole freakin' point of a small business is that they don't do business in multiple states. By nationalizing the law you're making it cost the same to do business in multiple states as it costs to do business in one state. But more importantly, you're taking away the ability of individual states to customize the law to the needs of their citizens. I'm sure the people in West Virginia have a different opinion to the people of Texas about what a company should be able to do with their personal information.
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I'd give him and audience, then I'd smack him in the head and tell him to piss off. If I wanted kids I would have had em, so don't come bugging me because you felt some desire to be apart of the "great chain" ok? Or something similar.
Tycho, is that you?
pfft, as if that could ever happen. I mean, come on, who's ever heard of a scientist becoming a smug bastard because he was rushed through highschool and allowed to enter college early. Seriously, it's not like you can just be a jerk and still be treated with respect. You're certainly not gunna found any multimillion dollar companies and publish your own book because everyone with half a brain thinks you've lost it -- whilst the other half of the scienfic community think you might be onto something if only they could figure out what.
Yep, and I'm sure you'd feel really proud considering that you've had nothing to do with their upbringing and just supplied less than half of their genetic material which was mostly random anyway. But hey, don't let that stop you from taking credit from the people who did the real work of actually raising the kid.
Now that sounds reasonable.
Why do you want to? Seriously. WTF is with people tracking down their birth parents. Genetics mean squat. The people your genetics came from don't represent your genetics anyway, so what's the point of tracking them down? Just so you can ask them why they didn't want to raise you and had enough heart to give you to someone who did?
I bet it's not nearly as hard as they like to think it is. Software made by electrical engineers is always a heck of a lot more complex than it needs to be. I don't even wanna think about software made by mechanical engineers.
If you are going to invest that much, why worry about the cost of software?
How about worrying about your freedom?
You should tell them to mind their own business. The purpose of a role playing game is to play a role. You don't see anyone saying "you're not really a cleric, are you?" because it is assumed that you're only playing the role of a cleric (or a warrior, or a barbarian, or whatever). The problem with WoW is that they've tried to throw out role playing and make it all about "fun" to which you really have to ask, why have a character you can personify? What purpose is there to it?
The whole point of a roleplaying game is that you are not supposed to reveal anything about who you are. You are supposed to roleplay. So if your character is male, you should act male, even if you are female. Much like if you character is a big strong barbarian, you should act like a big strong barbarian, even if you're really a short weak accountant. That's the purpose of the game, to provide an outlet for you to express the parts of your personality that you don't get to express in your everyday life. Questions about whether you're a guy or a girl or what you do for a living in "real life" should be met with distain. You should tell such people to mind their own business and get back to roleplaying.
Dude, no. Choose ANY story and it will fit into any one of these categories. That was my point. It's the reason why people see God in everything that happens to them because any arbitary biblical story can be applied to your life.
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If you give out the game for free before the player has started paying the monthly fee they will go to ridiculous lengths to prove to themself and others that the game sucks. Otherwise they know they're going to pay that monthly fee and they know that isn't good for them.
Gathering He3 from the gas giants in our solar system would be a lot more lucrative. The Moon just happens to be closer. But frankly, there's a heck of a lot more resources on the Moon than He3. Almost all the platinium group metals mined on earth come from meteor impact sites. It costs a lot to mine these metals on earth as erosion has washed most of the meteor away and the only ores left are the ones that fused with earth rocks. On the Moon there's no such erosion, so densities of platinium group metals are expected to be much higher in the millions and millions of craters we see up there. Of course, we don't have the technology to mine this massive wealth today, and we won't have it by 2020.
Thing is, no-one bothers to clone software on Win32 as it is just as easy to write something new as it is to write a clone. The reason people clone software on the Linux platform is because they don't like the license. Don't get me wrong, I write open source software, and I've even been known to clone software, but when you're talking about why small business can't make software for Linux, there's your reason. Oh the other hand, having an individual person/business contract you to make modifications to open source software is something is possible, but it is difficult to find anyone willing to pay a reasonable amount for open source customization.
Uhh, because there's a switching penalty? The reason why satellite has traditionally had such low ping times is because they've been in geostationary orbit, and the propogation delay literally is that far away.
Wow, what category does this fit into? Let's try all of them shall we?
Yah. What have we learn about categories?
available here. I've not seen such a good treatment of it before.
but the concept of a p-zombie really hasn't filtered into the public conciousness.. any film that adequately explained it would probably be smash hit. Simply because we all love zombies and anything novel is, by definition, fun. I wonder if his storyline patent would actually cover a completely different storyline that just happened to include the concept of a p-zombie.
Look, you don't even need to leave the USA to go on a "sex tour". If you live in California, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia or Wisconsin the law says you can't have sex with someone under the age of 18 if you are over the age of 18. So if you live in one of these states and you travel to Ohio, or one of the other states where the age of consent is 16, should you be prohibited from having sex with a 16 year old? If not, then what happens when you return to your home state? Do you get arrested? Of course not, because in the state in which you performed the act you were not breaking the law. Your home state cannot enforce their laws in another state.
If you're going to go to Italy, where the age of consent is 14, and pickup school girls why should you be arrested when you return to the US? As far as the Italian government is concerned you've broken no law, so why should the US government even be involved? They're just fuckin' imperialists.
So if I kill someone in a country that refuses to prosecute me for that crime then I should be lynched the minute I step foot in another country that would? Great! Please send all your hangmen, lethal injecting doctors, electric chair operators and other murderers you refuse to prosecute over to one of the majority of civilized western countries who have outlawed capital punishment.
uh huh. 150km * 2 = 300km / speed of light = 1.000692 ms. We're not talking about geostationary satellites anymore (typically around 238.738 ms ping times, which is still faster than most people on dialup).
Sex tourism laws are fucking insane. The only reason they are tolerated is because they're for a specific heinous act that no-one wants to defend (sex with children). Suppose the exact same laws were applied to drug tourism. Go to Amsterdam, visit a hash cafe, return to the US and get arrested at the airport. Or decompilation tourism. Go to Australia, decompile software to check its security, return to the US and get arrested at the airport. If you're not in the US, you can't commit a crime in the US. That's the way it should be. Otherwise the US is nothing but an imperialist who thinks they can police the world.
If you really wanna go offtopic, let's talk about small business on the Linux platform shall we? If I were to release a version of my software for Linux the immediate response I would get is that it is completely unnecessary, as software like netstat, nettop, and tcplog work flawlessly on Linux, are free, and my software is no better. Supposing my software was actually useful on that platform, someone would most likely demand that I open source it, and when I refused they would clone it and open source their clone. As such, the only software that can be sold on the Linux platform is open source licensed, or is so large that cloning it is beyond the capability of a small group of developers. i.e., only software that is developed by big business can be sold on the Linux platform. Anything within the capabilities of a small business cannot be sold without being cloned, and a small business can't afford to support open source licensed software as the profit margins are too thin. So what's the alternative? If I could develop software for Mac I would.
Uhh, the whole freakin' point of a small business is that they don't do business in multiple states. By nationalizing the law you're making it cost the same to do business in multiple states as it costs to do business in one state. But more importantly, you're taking away the ability of individual states to customize the law to the needs of their citizens. I'm sure the people in West Virginia have a different opinion to the people of Texas about what a company should be able to do with their personal information.