Yes, I have. I consider it one of the crowning achievements of my life. Beer at -4 degrees C is a wonderful, wonderful thing in an Australian summer.
Testing with a digital thermometer was fun too. If the beer was too cold, dipping the tip of the probe into the beer is enough to start a cascade of freezing that blooms down through the whole bottle in about a second. Interesting phenomena to observe. But a waste of beer.
With practice, I got the method worked out. Slow and careful is the key. Higher alcohol beers work better.
It may be different in the US, in fact it probably is, but in the country that I'm writing from, political advertising is required by the Broadcasting Services Act to include;
1. the name of the person who authorised the broadcasting of the political matter; and
2. the town, city or suburb in which the person lives or, if the person is a corporation or association, in which the principal office is situated; and
3. the name of every speaker who, either in person or by means of a sound recording device, delivers an address or makes a statement that forms part of that matter.
Maybe it was just me (but I'm pretty sure I can't be the only truly unique little snowflake in a world of 6.5 billion of them), but one thing I took away from Call of Duty 1 & 2 and Medal of Honour was that you did get killed. A lot. And at some point, I think it might have been at Normandy, where it took me nearIy two days to find a safe route off the beach, I found myself imagining each one of those lives I went through on that bloody beach was another man down in the real thing. The feeling was well and truly hammered home during the last push of the Russian counter-offensive into Stalingrad, with whole boatloads going up left and right of us as we crossed the Volga.
It appeared to me like there were only a handful of safe routes up the beach and of all those millions of soldiers, all the unique little snowflakes that were a Private Alexei Ivanovich Voronin who didn't find them, and the one left at the end of the game who did.
The good thing is, it's a game. It's play. Like movies and books and art and music and imagination and dreams, done right, they can convey something that you could (or hope will) never learn about through actual experience.
Well, my genetic stock isn't exactly something I'd wish on anybody. Flat feet, colour blind, long-sighted, tendencies for heart disease, high blood pressure and spinal problems.
On the other hand, the children whose growing up (just try finding a significant other as you, and they, (unless your tastes in women aren't maturing along with the rest of you) get older who doesn't already have children of their own) I've been a part of certainly show the effects of my being there.
Some of them are even passing it on to their children now. And _they_ are calling me grandpa (which really wasn't my idea).
I don't know for certain - ask me again in 40 years - but it looks to me like I'm passing on some sort of advantage here.
...that whenever I read (hear, see learn, whatever - receive data, you know what I mean*) about things like this is something along the lines of......
<slowfacepalm>
"Jeeeeezus"
</slowfacepalm>
....
Welll, sometimes it might be "Oh, God!", but I get the feeling, at times like that, that that's prayer enough, for times like that. Anyway, suffice it to say that all I can say to that article is, you go, Indiana Joe!
* After all, we're all geeks here. Except for the nerds, of course. And the boffins, excuse me sirs.
I could imagine that it would also depend on the type of game or puzzle played.
As you say, Tetris is good for tile theory (Funnily enough, I have skills at packing freight or for my holidays that are simply...uncanny), but I don't know that a steady diet of Gauntlet would have been much help there.
I'll tell you what I'm opposed to - I'm opposed to shit like this.
> Christian fundamentalists teach that latex is germ-permeable so that they can say that condoms are useless to prevent STDs
And it's got nothing to do with religion.
At least, it's got nothing to do with the ones that believe telling porkies is wrong...
Or don't they do that anymore?
I mean, it's not even a little one like you get forgiven for* it's a whole "How many lights", bucket of bullshit, apart from the bit that the victims don't even know it's being done to them, which just makes the sin (I think they call it) all the more egregious.
I don't care your race creed or colour but that shit is just...wrong...
Being able to see outside this vapour-thin slice of the electormagnetic spectrum would be brilliant.
Can I have eyes that can see from infrared* right up to UV, Gamma...X?
Driving a 1986 Dihatsu Charade - 3 cylinders of throbbing powaaa!
$20 petrol gets me about 350 kilometres.
Catching the bus to work (about a 5Km trip) costs $2.90.
Conclusion: Queensland Transport is a rip-off.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, just brimming over with wrongability.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki had a yield of about 13 kilotons. It created a fireball 300 metres in diameter, caused major destruction to a circle 3.2 Km (2 miles) in diameter and killed 140,000 people. It did destroy Nagasaki.
A 10 megaton explosion would have a fireball 4.8 km (3 mi) in diameter, cause major destruction in a circle 17.7 km (11 mi) across, which would be enough to wipe out most of Manhattan.
Then there's the fallout to think about.
The largest bomb ever detonated was 47 megatons - the fireball was 8 kilometres in diameter and there was blast damage up to 1000 Km away due to an effect called "atmosperic lensing". That was a Russian test, dialled back from a potential 100 megaton device, but it was never built into a weapon.
The highest yield weapon in the US arsenal was 25 megatons, but that one was retired in 1976. The best information that I could find indicated that the current higest yield weapons are about 10-15 megatons.
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Yes, I have. I consider it one of the crowning achievements of my life. Beer at -4 degrees C is a wonderful, wonderful thing in an Australian summer.
Testing with a digital thermometer was fun too. If the beer was too cold, dipping the tip of the probe into the beer is enough to start a cascade of freezing that blooms down through the whole bottle in about a second. Interesting phenomena to observe. But a waste of beer.
With practice, I got the method worked out. Slow and careful is the key. Higher alcohol beers work better.
It may be different in the US, in fact it probably is, but in the country that I'm writing from, political advertising is required by the Broadcasting Services Act to include;
1. the name of the person who authorised the broadcasting of the political matter; and
2. the town, city or suburb in which the person lives or, if the person is a corporation or association, in which the principal office is situated; and
3. the name of every speaker who, either in person or by means of a sound recording device, delivers an address or makes a statement that forms part of that matter.
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310646
Maybe it was just me (but I'm pretty sure I can't be the only truly unique little snowflake in a world of 6.5 billion of them), but one thing I took away from Call of Duty 1 & 2 and Medal of Honour was that you did get killed. A lot. And at some point, I think it might have been at Normandy, where it took me nearIy two days to find a safe route off the beach, I found myself imagining each one of those lives I went through on that bloody beach was another man down in the real thing. The feeling was well and truly hammered home during the last push of the Russian counter-offensive into Stalingrad, with whole boatloads going up left and right of us as we crossed the Volga.
It appeared to me like there were only a handful of safe routes up the beach and of all those millions of soldiers, all the unique little snowflakes that were a Private Alexei Ivanovich Voronin who didn't find them, and the one left at the end of the game who did.
The good thing is, it's a game. It's play. Like movies and books and art and music and imagination and dreams, done right, they can convey something that you could (or hope will) never learn about through actual experience.
Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.
Gee, Doctor Phil, maybe because that's how science is supposed to work?
Yes, but at least we'd all die laughing
Well, my genetic stock isn't exactly something I'd wish on anybody. Flat feet, colour blind, long-sighted, tendencies for heart disease, high blood pressure and spinal problems.
On the other hand, the children whose growing up (just try finding a significant other as you, and they, (unless your tastes in women aren't maturing along with the rest of you) get older who doesn't already have children of their own) I've been a part of certainly show the effects of my being there.
Some of them are even passing it on to their children now. And _they_ are calling me grandpa (which really wasn't my idea).
I don't know for certain - ask me again in 40 years - but it looks to me like I'm passing on some sort of advantage here.
On the Amiga. From that day, I had to have one...
That's disgusting.
It's a little bit of technology we call a bag, mollog. If you're the squeamish type, there's also these things called rub-ber gloves.
Isn't that neat?
Don't leave your shit, or any shit you are responsible for, out in the streets. It's unsanitary.
Given that he got Georgie boy out of the White House, he probably was the most peace-promoting person in the world last year.
"Jeeeeezus"
.... Welll, sometimes it might be "Oh, God!", but I get the feeling, at times like that, that that's prayer enough, for times like that. Anyway, suffice it to say that all I can say to that article is, you go, Indiana Joe!
...Stop "doing" that!
* After all, we're all geeks here. Except for the nerds, of course. And the boffins, excuse me sirs.
*
-
My god, it's turtles all the way down!
I could imagine that it would also depend on the type of game or puzzle played.
As you say, Tetris is good for tile theory (Funnily enough, I have skills at packing freight or for my holidays that are simply...uncanny), but I don't know that a steady diet of Gauntlet would have been much help there.
Yes, I played a lot of Tetris, why do you ask?
So explain to me where the whole "Step 3 : ???" thing got started again??
You know, if that's true, he died over 2,000 years go now, so surely it should be open slather by now?
Yes, I know, I'm going to hell
But if you laughed, you're coming with me...
Except that the boosters are done by about 46 kilometres. From there on up, the shuttle runs on its main engines.
1/20th of a degree per year
There, fixed that for you!
What's that? Five degrees by the end of the century?
Is that right?
See, I knew mathematics cuold be fun!
I'll tell you what I'm opposed to - I'm opposed to shit like this.
> Christian fundamentalists teach that latex is germ-permeable so that they can say that condoms are useless to prevent STDs
And it's got nothing to do with religion.
At least, it's got nothing to do with the ones that believe telling porkies is wrong...
Or don't they do that anymore?
I mean, it's not even a little one like you get forgiven for* it's a whole "How many lights", bucket of bullshit, apart from the bit that the victims don't even know it's being done to them, which just makes the sin (I think they call it) all the more egregious. I don't care your race creed or colour but that shit is just...wrong...
*See "does my butt look big in this?"
Sound of one dog laughing?
Would you believe they go ha-ha-ha?
http://www.petalk.org/LaughingDog.html
Being able to see outside this vapour-thin slice of the electormagnetic spectrum would be brilliant. Can I have eyes that can see from infrared* right up to UV, Gamma...X?
That would be cool...
*Anything below infra-red? I wanna see that too.
Or half an hour in Photoshop as opposed to say, four.
Only till you drain the water out of it and pipe it off to the desert where it's supposed to be...
'It', in this case being the water, of course, not the bog that you're piping it out of.
Driving a 1986 Dihatsu Charade - 3 cylinders of throbbing powaaa! $20 petrol gets me about 350 kilometres. Catching the bus to work (about a 5Km trip) costs $2.90. Conclusion: Queensland Transport is a rip-off.
Oneliners? Yeah, here's one;
The satellite is braodcasting immortal revolutionary songs and anthems praising leader Kim Jong-Il.
But it seems North Korea are the only people who think so.
What, you mean like ermmmm....Iraq, Iran, Haiti, Chile, Camodia, Venezuela, Nicuragua...
Yeah, they went well, didn't they?
Wrong, wrong, wrong, just brimming over with wrongability.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki had a yield of about 13 kilotons. It created a fireball 300 metres in diameter, caused major destruction to a circle 3.2 Km (2 miles) in diameter and killed 140,000 people. It did destroy Nagasaki.
A 10 megaton explosion would have a fireball 4.8 km (3 mi) in diameter, cause major destruction in a circle 17.7 km (11 mi) across, which would be enough to wipe out most of Manhattan.
Then there's the fallout to think about.
The largest bomb ever detonated was 47 megatons - the fireball was 8 kilometres in diameter and there was blast damage up to 1000 Km away due to an effect called "atmosperic lensing". That was a Russian test, dialled back from a potential 100 megaton device, but it was never built into a weapon.
The highest yield weapon in the US arsenal was 25 megatons, but that one was retired in 1976. The best information that I could find indicated that the current higest yield weapons are about 10-15 megatons.