I'm intrigued as to why fratricide would be much of an issue - for most targets, if it has been hit by another nuke it doesn't really matter if another fails to go off.
It's not a problem with that target itself -- it's been pasted. But the fratricided warhead could have been used on another target. Every weapon expended on overkill is one that could have been used to adequately kill another target.
Also explains how there's overkill and there's overkill. ABM's reduced the UK's SLBM deterrent to one city, Moscow. This changes the common assumption of one warhead, one city, and an American boomer with 100-something MIRV'd warheads accounts for 100-something targets.
The time to make post-ROTJ sequels was the 80's. The tech ain't advanced enough to fit your vision, Lucas? Really? The original trilogy looked just fine. Might have been ok to wait until the 90's for the sequels. Now? If the original actors are in the background, fine, but as central leads in a brand new adventure? Do you realize how awful Ford looked in the Crystal Skullfucking and realize he'll be years older than that by the time this turd is pinched off?
Oh, right. Nobody cares about quality.
Damn it, every time I think I've finally let go and am no longer caring what they do to the franchise, they come up with some fresh, new obscenity that has me going Joe Pesci.
It's not a binary between "rich" and "not rich": You're richer than many, not as rich as some.
My personal definition of rich: You are rich if you have enough wealth that you could choose to not work and still live quite comfortably indefinitely. So, for instance, if you had $5 million in assets earning a 5% return, you would be what I'd consider "rich", because an income of $250K a year is quite a comfortable existence: you could on that afford 2 homes, multiple cars per person, hiring somebody else to do the cleaning, eating pretty much whatever you like, traveling pretty much wherever you like. If, on the other hand, you work 40 hours a week and make $250K a year, you're clearly doing very very well, but are not yet rich (if you save a lot of that, you will likely retire rich, though).
Also depends on how you want to live. Your investments could see you only $20k a year but you might enjoy traveling the world with little more than what you have in your backpack and with your ATM card in your wallet.
So I agree with your definition but the amount of money for "living comfortably" depends on a person's standards.
Netflix is easier than piracy which tips the scales back into the studios favor.
This. I actually have shows I pirated and didn't get around to watching that I'm now finding time for via Netflix. It's available on my media PC, laptop, phone, wherever I am. And because I have a hard time making out dialogue with the shitty sound mix everyone does these days, subtitles are a lifesaver. I'm usually stuck going to subscene or some other site for anything I've pirated. Netflix is so stupidly simple it's far easier than pirating.
But shit, they ruin Netflix, I can go back to pirating easy-peasy.
Any virtue can be taken to a fault. Asimov grew his sideburns because he realized he could save much more time just shaving his chin. Taking it to an extreme, we'll have:
I bathe every other day because I don't smell that bad.
I pee in my empty soda bottle so I don't have go get up from my chair during a raid.
I eat other people's lunches out of the fridge at work because it saves time on making my own.
With any of this stuff, if you can live your life without adverse impact it's a quirk or an idiosyncracy. If it has an adverse affect on yourself or those around you, we're talking a disorder.
It's probably time for me to change my habits. I'm 270 right now when my optimal genetic weight is probably about 195/200 (as my father and brothers are.) Frankly, sometimes the weight hurts my ankles... I spend way too much time in front of the computer editing video and drinking coffee. Its kind of pathetic.
Maybe I should take this moment to reflect and do something about it, I know I would be a lot happier if I did.
Do it. I'm taking the slow and steady route to improvement. Was at 6'1", 336lbs, down to 260 right now. I was at "turn and stare" weight and in a fatass country like 'Murrica, that's saying something. Dropped a lot of fat, put on a lot of muscle. Still got a belly to finish working off but arms and legs are toned and muscly, no longer got a roll of fat hanging off my back, got my goddamn face back. I had a goddamn Rush Limbaugh bullfrog throat with pig jowls. It was disgusting.
You'll need to do a couple of things: 1) Figure out where you're getting your excess calories, start cutting 2) Get more exercise, mix of cardio and weights
My biggest problem is portion control. I can easily eat four times what I actually need in a meal. If I have the kind of breakfast I want to, I can go the rest of the day without eating. Not good. Smaller portions, I'm actually feeling hungry by the next meal.
The thing you may hate is you're going to have to learn how to cook and do it proper. It takes time. That's usually why people are willing to pay more to avoid the work. And honestly, it's more than a bit fucked. If I were a lazy bastard who didn't want to cook, I could live on dollar menu burgers and water. $3 a day. You can't get veg and salad for that. Of course, you won't be living for long on that kind of diet, either. Cheap, shit food is too easy, the good stuff costs more in time and money.
If you're going to make changes, start small. If you're short on time, eating less and more of the right things is the easiest. You're already making the time for meals anyway. Then set aside at least a half hour for a walk around the block. It'll probably kick your ass. I was getting shin splints when I started, utterly pathetic. Work your way up from there.
He was a "diplomat" in EVE Online. In real life, he did IT work for the consulate -- he wasn't a diplomat nor any particularly wealthy, privileged person. He's just an ordinary guy doing IT work.
The way I first read it, he was the target of the hit due to his activities in EVE and the American ambassador was just caught in the crossfire.
The actual story (ambassador, others killed because muslims always overreact to trolling) is only slightly less strange.
No. No it wouldn't. Quantum entanglement does not allow for faster than light communication. Common myth.
And FTL drives mean you also violate causality and have time travel. I know people say it and many agree with it but I don't truly understand the physics. I still have trouble with relativity and time dilation.
I assume all of these facts are, how shall we say, entangled. *rimshot* Could somebody try 'splaining it again? Every time I think I might possibly be on the cusp of comprehension, I try putting it in my own words and it pops like a soap bubble.
The CMP have been alerted. Even as we speak, the Red Riders hunt the culprits down. When they are captured, for it is inevitable, they shall be condemned to the maple syrup mines to make good the loss.
I'm just going to wait for Apple's competing product. The toilet is a perfect example of an Apple product. It has one button, one function, and it needs to be clean and durable.
Look, you have to pay top dollar for top talent... in the financial industry.
People who educate your kids? Lousy unionized crumbums! Cut their pensions! Cut their pay! What's that you say, top dollar for top talent? That only counts for the overclass.
It seems like there's a threshold for human organizations beyond which the probability of turning into complete fucking assholes approaches 1. Grow a religion big enough and it becomes assholes in funny hats, just like the Catholics. Grow a software company big enough and it's chair-throwing assholes with buggy operating systems. Grow a sport big enough and they take something that's supposed to be about having a good time and ruin everyone else's time.
People would have said they liked the new fully cornerless design and swirly textures. Brown is obviously the new white (or black) and you have to be impressed by the new smell feedback technology. It's soft and warm to the touch as well, making it comfortable to hold.
But being Apple it wouldn't be compatible with a genetic anus, it'll be proprietary.
There were a few things that didn't quite work but I'd give the movies an overall 95%. Some of the cuts made for the theatrical version had better pacing than the extended versions.
Pretty much the only things that felt out of place were how awful the ring felt when worn since Bilbo wouldn't have handled it so casually if he was seeing the lidless eye the whole time and the portrayal as Sauron being a scary lighthouse. Oh, and I really thought Weaving was poorly cast as Agent Elrond. Great actor but not a good fit for an elf-lord.
I saw the movies before I read the books. They aren't perfect, there are flaws, but they still represent an achievement of imagination.
What someone else above said about stories being living things, yes. The movies are PJ's telling of Rings. Don't like it? The book's still there. Blind Guardian did a concept album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Don't like euro-metal? Then you can still enjoy the Zeppelin material inspired by Rings.
Slashdot Mirror
Assuming he reads Slashdot, I think you've already figured this out.
I'm intrigued as to why fratricide would be much of an issue - for most targets, if it has been hit by another nuke it doesn't really matter if another fails to go off.
It's not a problem with that target itself -- it's been pasted. But the fratricided warhead could have been used on another target. Every weapon expended on overkill is one that could have been used to adequately kill another target.
Stuart Slade posts have been floating around. They give a pretty comprehensive idea of the suck of nuclear war.
http://www.giantbomb.com/fallout-3/61-20504/nuclear-warfare-101-wall-of-text-alert/35-2999/
Also explains how there's overkill and there's overkill. ABM's reduced the UK's SLBM deterrent to one city, Moscow. This changes the common assumption of one warhead, one city, and an American boomer with 100-something MIRV'd warheads accounts for 100-something targets.
Notice how we haven't seen them in ads for years.
The time to make post-ROTJ sequels was the 80's. The tech ain't advanced enough to fit your vision, Lucas? Really? The original trilogy looked just fine. Might have been ok to wait until the 90's for the sequels. Now? If the original actors are in the background, fine, but as central leads in a brand new adventure? Do you realize how awful Ford looked in the Crystal Skullfucking and realize he'll be years older than that by the time this turd is pinched off?
Oh, right. Nobody cares about quality.
Damn it, every time I think I've finally let go and am no longer caring what they do to the franchise, they come up with some fresh, new obscenity that has me going Joe Pesci.
http://theinternetaccordingtoadrian.tumblr.com/post/9940304385/george-lucas-wearing-a-han-shot-first-shirt
That image pretty much sums it up. 4chan can suck his balls. Gentlemen, this is trolling.
It's not a binary between "rich" and "not rich": You're richer than many, not as rich as some.
My personal definition of rich: You are rich if you have enough wealth that you could choose to not work and still live quite comfortably indefinitely. So, for instance, if you had $5 million in assets earning a 5% return, you would be what I'd consider "rich", because an income of $250K a year is quite a comfortable existence: you could on that afford 2 homes, multiple cars per person, hiring somebody else to do the cleaning, eating pretty much whatever you like, traveling pretty much wherever you like. If, on the other hand, you work 40 hours a week and make $250K a year, you're clearly doing very very well, but are not yet rich (if you save a lot of that, you will likely retire rich, though).
Also depends on how you want to live. Your investments could see you only $20k a year but you might enjoy traveling the world with little more than what you have in your backpack and with your ATM card in your wallet.
So I agree with your definition but the amount of money for "living comfortably" depends on a person's standards.
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(adding padding to joke to bypass lameness filters. Meanwhile, frist pr0st trolls post merrily away.)
Netflix is easier than piracy which tips the scales back into the studios favor.
This. I actually have shows I pirated and didn't get around to watching that I'm now finding time for via Netflix. It's available on my media PC, laptop, phone, wherever I am. And because I have a hard time making out dialogue with the shitty sound mix everyone does these days, subtitles are a lifesaver. I'm usually stuck going to subscene or some other site for anything I've pirated. Netflix is so stupidly simple it's far easier than pirating.
But shit, they ruin Netflix, I can go back to pirating easy-peasy.
But the whole twist is the ending. I am afraid I will not be looking forward to it knowing how it ends.
I'm imagine Robot Chicken's version of M. Night Shamwowallamallamaman popping out when Ender finds out. "What a twist!"
Any virtue can be taken to a fault. Asimov grew his sideburns because he realized he could save much more time just shaving his chin. Taking it to an extreme, we'll have:
I bathe every other day because I don't smell that bad.
I pee in my empty soda bottle so I don't have go get up from my chair during a raid.
I eat other people's lunches out of the fridge at work because it saves time on making my own.
With any of this stuff, if you can live your life without adverse impact it's a quirk or an idiosyncracy. If it has an adverse affect on yourself or those around you, we're talking a disorder.
It's probably time for me to change my habits. I'm 270 right now when my optimal genetic weight is probably about 195/200 (as my father and brothers are.) Frankly, sometimes the weight hurts my ankles... I spend way too much time in front of the computer editing video and drinking coffee. Its kind of pathetic.
Maybe I should take this moment to reflect and do something about it, I know I would be a lot happier if I did.
Do it. I'm taking the slow and steady route to improvement. Was at 6'1", 336lbs, down to 260 right now. I was at "turn and stare" weight and in a fatass country like 'Murrica, that's saying something. Dropped a lot of fat, put on a lot of muscle. Still got a belly to finish working off but arms and legs are toned and muscly, no longer got a roll of fat hanging off my back, got my goddamn face back. I had a goddamn Rush Limbaugh bullfrog throat with pig jowls. It was disgusting.
You'll need to do a couple of things:
1) Figure out where you're getting your excess calories, start cutting
2) Get more exercise, mix of cardio and weights
My biggest problem is portion control. I can easily eat four times what I actually need in a meal. If I have the kind of breakfast I want to, I can go the rest of the day without eating. Not good. Smaller portions, I'm actually feeling hungry by the next meal.
The thing you may hate is you're going to have to learn how to cook and do it proper. It takes time. That's usually why people are willing to pay more to avoid the work. And honestly, it's more than a bit fucked. If I were a lazy bastard who didn't want to cook, I could live on dollar menu burgers and water. $3 a day. You can't get veg and salad for that. Of course, you won't be living for long on that kind of diet, either. Cheap, shit food is too easy, the good stuff costs more in time and money.
If you're going to make changes, start small. If you're short on time, eating less and more of the right things is the easiest. You're already making the time for meals anyway. Then set aside at least a half hour for a walk around the block. It'll probably kick your ass. I was getting shin splints when I started, utterly pathetic. Work your way up from there.
He was a "diplomat" in EVE Online. In real life, he did IT work for the consulate -- he wasn't a diplomat nor any particularly wealthy, privileged person. He's just an ordinary guy doing IT work.
The way I first read it, he was the target of the hit due to his activities in EVE and the American ambassador was just caught in the crossfire.
The actual story (ambassador, others killed because muslims always overreact to trolling) is only slightly less strange.
No. No it wouldn't. Quantum entanglement does not allow for faster than light communication. Common myth.
And FTL drives mean you also violate causality and have time travel. I know people say it and many agree with it but I don't truly understand the physics. I still have trouble with relativity and time dilation.
I assume all of these facts are, how shall we say, entangled. *rimshot* Could somebody try 'splaining it again? Every time I think I might possibly be on the cusp of comprehension, I try putting it in my own words and it pops like a soap bubble.
Historically inaccurate wenching set in a mythical version of medieval England is definitely not my thing.
I don't recall dragons and zombies in my history, either! Game of Thrones is really inaccurate!
The CMP have been alerted. Even as we speak, the Red Riders hunt the culprits down. When they are captured, for it is inevitable, they shall be condemned to the maple syrup mines to make good the loss.
To be expected. What I want to know is:
a) How much time did they spend on this?
b) How much money did they spend on it?
Anything north of 12 months and $50 mil, I'll be suitably disgusted and impressed. 24 months and $100 mil, they deserve some kind of fail award.
I'm just going to wait for Apple's competing product. The toilet is a perfect example of an Apple product. It has one button, one function, and it needs to be clean and durable.
The iCan.
Is necrophilia always wrong?
No! No! You're talking too much sense!
Look, you have to pay top dollar for top talent... in the financial industry.
People who educate your kids? Lousy unionized crumbums! Cut their pensions! Cut their pay! What's that you say, top dollar for top talent? That only counts for the overclass.
You'll never steal my Jew gold you dirty goyim!
I read that in the Lucky Charms voice. I've got this whole weird image of anti-semitic breakfast cereals going on. Silly rabbi, Trix are for kids!
Troll standards have been slipping of late.
It seems like there's a threshold for human organizations beyond which the probability of turning into complete fucking assholes approaches 1. Grow a religion big enough and it becomes assholes in funny hats, just like the Catholics. Grow a software company big enough and it's chair-throwing assholes with buggy operating systems. Grow a sport big enough and they take something that's supposed to be about having a good time and ruin everyone else's time.
Put the IOC on the terrorism watch list.
People would have said they liked the new fully cornerless design and swirly textures. Brown is obviously the new white (or black) and you have to be impressed by the new smell feedback technology. It's soft and warm to the touch as well, making it comfortable to hold.
But being Apple it wouldn't be compatible with a genetic anus, it'll be proprietary.
There were a few things that didn't quite work but I'd give the movies an overall 95%. Some of the cuts made for the theatrical version had better pacing than the extended versions.
Pretty much the only things that felt out of place were how awful the ring felt when worn since Bilbo wouldn't have handled it so casually if he was seeing the lidless eye the whole time and the portrayal as Sauron being a scary lighthouse. Oh, and I really thought Weaving was poorly cast as Agent Elrond. Great actor but not a good fit for an elf-lord.
I saw the movies before I read the books. They aren't perfect, there are flaws, but they still represent an achievement of imagination.
What someone else above said about stories being living things, yes. The movies are PJ's telling of Rings. Don't like it? The book's still there. Blind Guardian did a concept album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Don't like euro-metal? Then you can still enjoy the Zeppelin material inspired by Rings.
Man, this comment's gonna get modfucked into oblivion. Thou shalt not make fun of the Cult. Never make fun of the Cult.