Doesn't the article say something about the exoskel having to beable to be armoured? Plus they want people to beable to go faster, and jump higher, and stay in the suit for at least 4 hours at a stretch.
People are expensive? Maybe they _should_ be, but they aren't. What's it cost to train J. Random Grunt? (clothing, feeding, and housing too, I suppose) Power armour would have to be several million bucks a shot. Maybe the Rangers could change their motto to We never leave an exoskeleton behind!
I think that almost every innovation in American banking tends to be old hat here. I've actually gone into a bank maybe once a year for at least the last 5 years. At this point, I hardly even need to use the bank machines either, except to deposit cheques (I don't feel comfortable with direct deposit for my money, and I definately don't like it for bills). When I get a bill in the mail, I call my bank, punch in my card number, guy asks for random letters out of a password, and then I tell him "pay annoying phone company scum $35.67" and then I'm done. Not only do all our banks have online / telephone banking available as nuprin mentioned, there are a couple of banks that consider themselves "online banks" MBanx and President's Choice (yeah, like the cookies) are two examples of banks who offer all kinds of banking services. They just don't have any actual physical branches (They do have kiosks in Safeways and Superstores, though). I'm not sure about MBanx, but PC is almost completely fee-free (only fee is to use a bank machine that doesn't belong to CIBC, who is the traditional bank that actually holds my money).
Hah. I remember pissing off my mother when we watched the tapes at my grandmother's place (neither of us had seen it) by predicting the plot of most of the movie at least 30 seconds in advance.
Thought they worked by detecting the longer empty black screen between commercial blocks and the shows. I've never looked into it, because I just don't trust broadcasters not to start sticking slightly longer pauses into the shows, thus screwing up my tapings.
I don't know if Streep's really whoring. I've never seen her in anything that didn't involve horribly overacted melodrama, so I just assume its the only way she knows how to act.
Well, I think he was talking about the language mostly, and the CRTC lets more and more go as it gets later. By midnight (I think), there's no restrictions on language at all. Yay KITH!
Oh, and I'll just assume you meant the FCC, not the Federal Trade Commision.
All right, can someone explain the flamebait to me? I know that asking this is going to cost me even more karma when this post gets OT'd, but I just don't follow the moderation around here anymore. I liked it better when my posts were simply ignored...
not being an American and all? I've not bothered with this since it has to do with American law, and I can't see them caring about what non-American's think of it. And hey, it's not like the Americans would try to force their laws down my countries throat, right? *cough*Helms Burton*cough*iCrave*cough
Well, if you meet someone else who runs around the forests & dungeons and whatnot, they're a PC. You can't expect to have all the boring townspeople be PC's can you? Who in there right mind wants to spend money & time role playing a cloth merchant or the town drunk? Or the town's cheapest whore?
Set the game shortly after Luke started his school, so there's one Jedi master around, and a bunch of students when the server starts up. (Naturally, the starting students gain skill, and after a certain amount of game time, head off to find recruits of their own to train)
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Hmmm. One too many high-speed collisions, mayhap?
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How can this list have an entry that isn't a whole number?
Doesn't the article say something about the exoskel having to beable to be armoured? Plus they want people to beable to go faster, and jump higher, and stay in the suit for at least 4 hours at a stretch.
People are expensive? Maybe they _should_ be, but they aren't. What's it cost to train J. Random Grunt? (clothing, feeding, and housing too, I suppose) Power armour would have to be several million bucks a shot. Maybe the Rangers could change their motto to We never leave an exoskeleton behind!
Hey, that biker could be me! (If I was a biker and inclined to hit people with clubs that is)
One of your numbers in 6 is wrong. I'll assume its the 150 feet, in which case the number should've been ~50 feet.
These wouldn't be giant mechs, they'd be power armour like in Starship Troopers. (say, something on the order of +20% height)
Mostly, I just like to know exactly what's going in and out of my accounts, and when. (Probably why I hate cheques too)
*shudder* Real Live Bank People?
hmmm, sounds almost oxymoronic...
I think that almost every innovation in American banking tends to be old hat here. I've actually gone into a bank maybe once a year for at least the last 5 years. At this point, I hardly even need to use the bank machines either, except to deposit cheques (I don't feel comfortable with direct deposit for my money, and I definately don't like it for bills). When I get a bill in the mail, I call my bank, punch in my card number, guy asks for random letters out of a password, and then I tell him "pay annoying phone company scum $35.67" and then I'm done. Not only do all our banks have online / telephone banking available as nuprin mentioned, there are a couple of banks that consider themselves "online banks" MBanx and President's Choice (yeah, like the cookies) are two examples of banks who offer all kinds of banking services. They just don't have any actual physical branches (They do have kiosks in Safeways and Superstores, though). I'm not sure about MBanx, but PC is almost completely fee-free (only fee is to use a bank machine that doesn't belong to CIBC, who is the traditional bank that actually holds my money).
Hah. I remember pissing off my mother when we watched the tapes at my grandmother's place (neither of us had seen it) by predicting the plot of most of the movie at least 30 seconds in advance.
Yeah, OK, that'd be cool... but he's dead Jim.
I assume you meant:
If 13 < Mass < 75 jupiters then Deuterium fusion: brown dwarf.
No matter what I do, no matter what planet I collide with, I'll never get to collide with Sol III...
Product placement isn't exactly new. Remember Wayne's World? (was it the first or second?) Now _that_ was product placement.
Thought they worked by detecting the longer empty black screen between commercial blocks and the shows. I've never looked into it, because I just don't trust broadcasters not to start sticking slightly longer pauses into the shows, thus screwing up my tapings.
I'd say the last two words of the .sig (that you didn't copy) kind of answer your question.
I don't know if Streep's really whoring. I've never seen her in anything that didn't involve horribly overacted melodrama, so I just assume its the only way she knows how to act.
Well, I think he was talking about the language mostly, and the CRTC lets more and more go as it gets later. By midnight (I think), there's no restrictions on language at all. Yay KITH!
Oh, and I'll just assume you meant the FCC, not the Federal Trade Commision.
Don't they need to unroll it to use it?
All right, can someone explain the flamebait to me? I know that asking this is going to cost me even more karma when this post gets OT'd, but I just don't follow the moderation around here anymore. I liked it better when my posts were simply ignored...
Well, the label on your 10" should say how long the roll is, and then you need to know how long a 2" roll is, and your set!
not being an American and all? I've not bothered with this since it has to do with American law, and I can't see them caring about what non-American's think of it. And hey, it's not like the Americans would try to force their laws down my countries throat, right? *cough*Helms Burton*cough*iCrave*cough
Well, if you meet someone else who runs around the forests & dungeons and whatnot, they're a PC. You can't expect to have all the boring townspeople be PC's can you? Who in there right mind wants to spend money & time role playing a cloth merchant or the town drunk? Or the town's cheapest whore?
I think there's a large contingent of potential players who wouldn't necessarily want to be Jedi.
Like me. Solo was da man, man. Luke was just a whiny punk with good genetics (who happened to make out with his sister)...
Set the game shortly after Luke started his school, so there's one Jedi master around, and a bunch of students when the server starts up. (Naturally, the starting students gain skill, and after a certain amount of game time, head off to find recruits of their own to train)