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Why would I want a big, phoneless iPhone designed for people with hands the size of Peter Mayhew's, precisely?
Apple has had plenty of "oops that was a big old miss" products they tried to market as "revolutionary." I expect the iPad to go the way of the Macbook Air - everything it does, a touchscreen Netbook does better and for less cost.
Show me a "collective punishment" and I'll show you a house with a munitions lab in the garage or a smuggling tunnel under the foundation.
Or a Red Crescent ambulance hauling armed, un-uniformed troops off to a conflict in violation of the Red Crescent charter and ICRC regulations, not to mention the "international law" your racist friends are so fond of applying only when it suits them.
And I see you're an anonymous coward... too cowardly, just like the Hamassholes, to even put your name to your words.
For example, a force that does not wear uniforms and hides among civilians is both not entitled to the protections of the conventions, but also is the responsible party in any attack that kills those civilians.
And yet day in, day out, we hear from nutcases claiming Israel "violates" the Geneva Conventions when fighting back against the Hamassholes, Hizb'al'bullshits, Fatahsses, etc...
More importantly, if you have an omnimech, say, why aren't all its hardpoints generic hardpoints, rather than having them typed like they do in the game? It would have bothered me less if IS designs had limited hardpoint configurations but omnimechs had full flexibility.
Because even Clan "Omni" 'mechs weren't all Omni? If you had read most of the sourcebooks, many of the Clan "Omni" mechs still were (at least as far as sourcebook/novel) limited to certain areas being Omni. Arms were especially good for this, as were missile pods, the torso sections were much less likely to be Omni-capable.
Omni technology is EXPENSIVE. Even for the Clans, only the top-of-the-line, front-line Omnimech forces got the "full omnimech" treatment. Most of the Clan units were either partial-Omni only, or were plain old "what you get is what you get" setups.
anyone remember way back 40-50 years ago when the Patent Office was still... well... COMPETENT and denied patents for "discoveries" that were either (a) the logical next step (which according to law is nonpatentable) or BLATANTLY FUCKING OBVIOUS?
MW4 wasn't "unfaithful", it merely incorporated more material (specifically, the hardpoint limitations and more faithfully applied the weapon reload times) from the Solaris VII material and Mechwarrior RPG books that FASA themselves wrote, in order to make you have honest choices between mech chassis.
Remember, in the tabletop game, if you want a "custom" 'mech, you have to either be (a) an elite front-line Clan warrior or (b) insanely fucking rich (Solaris champion, IS House, owner of a mech factory, etc). Most pilots have to use whatever stock configuration came off the assembly line that they got assigned to by their merc unit or army.
Yeah, it took me a bit to adjust to the "type-specific" hardpoints, but after a while they made some sense, and it added a bit more dimension to the possible choices of ride.
They must have all had beer goggles on. Have you ever seen how ugly toads are?
Wait.
Oh shit. Sorry scientist-dudes, but your premise is busted. Me and my buddies were out getting shit-faced that night and I think I just figured out where I spilled my last beer...
"whilst no foul play was found, the commission slammed Jones and the University for it's hap hazard approach."
In other words, the foregone conclusion they were ordered to come up with - "nothing to see here, move along folks" clashes with reality. So they inserted weasel words like hell till they could still give the pollies, who had ordered a specific conclusion, to say "see the results say nothing was wrong."
If you can't see how twisted and fucked-up this "investigation" is, I have only two questions remaining: what fucked-up shit are you smoking to get you that detached from reality, and why won't you share with the rest of us you stingy bastard?
The problem with "cap and trade" is that it is set up to be another corrupt program in the vein of the pre-NAFTA "licenses to sell peanuts" in the US, which made it so a host of white farmers (whose families had owned all the available licenses since the original program had been established) made $$$ selling theirs domestically, while newcoming white/latino/african-american farmers made... well... "peanuts" being forced to sell theirs to Canada, Mexico, or overseas instead in the globally competitive market.
No kidding. A political body doing an "investigation" like this? The phrase "the fix is in" seems to apply here - if you are honest, you have to admit the conclusion was pretty much decided before any "investigation" by the body was done, regardless of whether you trust current climate science or not.
What they REALLY should do is stop dumbing down the curriculum and "passing" ever-crappier performance, and follow the methods he used (no more excuses, no more "but it's hard why should I learn" bullcrap). Set the bar high and the kids will reach for it, set the bar low and kids will nap.
He had a funny role playing himself on TV for a while, but really, these days - have you seen any recent interviews? Many of his statements haven't been good. He aligns himself with the cult of $cientology, never claiming to "join" but always talking them up.
And then there's the weirdness of his buying his talentless son a star role in a movie, and getting the desperate-for-money Jackie Chan to star in what is blasphemously being called now "the Karate Kid" (or in China, "the Kung-Fu Kid")... ack.
Far as I can tell, Will Smith is played out and would be better just retiring.
Now as for Independence Day... they REALLY think they can get two more movies out of that premise? Eek.
HFCS is less natural - requiring more chemically-intensive steps and molecular rearrangement to produce - than the "synthetic" dextrose. If you can bring yourself to call it "natural", you're either delusional or you live in Iowa married to your cousin.
It's your definition of "natural" that is meaningless.
Bullshit. One of the greatest lies of modern food packaging is insisting that items that are 2,3,4,5 or more steps removed from the "natural" origination are still "natural." HFCS was originally produced using industrially packaged glucoamylase enzymes, but to dodge and claim it to be "natural", they now stick the Aspergillus fungus (yes, this nasty shit) right into the vat. Then they run the sludge through this industrially packaged shit for another conversion process.
Splenda (sucralose) is "sugar-derived." HFCS is "corn-derived." They both go through roughly the same amount of processing steps from the "natural" source (sugar/corn) and NEITHER of them actually occur naturally.
Nothing produced with HFCS is "natural." Period. The only thing keeping that label on things with HFCS currently is the corn lobby's lawyer brigade.
#1 - milling corn #2 - "steeping" the milled corn in acid water. #3 - cyclonic and screen separation (to separate oil, starch, and hulls) #4 - finer-grade milling #5 - more separation (to pull Gluten out) #6 - Multiple cycles of acid and enyzme soaks to convert glucose mix into "90%" fructose mix #7 - re-blending with bare "glucose mix" #8 - liquid chromatography pushes the fructose/glucose mix back to 90% fructose #9 - more back-blending to get to the "45/55%" mix commonly used.
Between the enzyme process, acid washes, and all the other steps and additions, that's why I describe any definition of this as "natural" as a "tortured as fuck." definition.
Actually, for a long while MS Games was doing great things for the PC gaming community - bringing some pretty awesome developers with cool and innovative games the needed money and advertising power to get their games out into the world.
Then, that crashed when they rolled all those developers into the Xbox fold. Crimson Skies was followed by the pukefest "Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge." Mechwarrior 4/Black Knight/Mercenaries saw Mechwarrior 5 canceled in favor of the crapfests Mechassault and Mechassault 2. The "Shadowrun" for Xbox? Epic Fail. Digital Anvil were forced to produce the crapfest Brute Force. Repeat ad nauseum.
MS has four big divisions: OS, Office, "Toys" (mobile OS and mobile programs mostly) and Games. Blame each in turn for their own fuck-ups.
As I've been researching it recently I've been finding it listed as a "preservative" in addition to a sweetener.
So in the last 20 years, as people have been freaking out about sodium intake and wanting "reduced salt" in everything from canned vegetables onwards, we now have... wait for it... HFCS-laden everything. Check the recipe for your favorite "reduced sodium" this-or-that, it'll have HFCS added in higher quantity, usually with some other substance to try to mask the sweetening effect.
It's processed as fuck, but still "natural" according to the tortured-as-fuck definition the corn lobby uses to get away with selling it for "all-natural" foods.
Remember: Hemlock is "organic." Arsenic is "all-natural."
For fuck's sake, there's HFCS in just about everything we eat these days. After the recent study, I went through my pantry. Wanted to see precisely how much of the stuff it was in.
- Hot dogs? CHECK. - Oscar Mayer "deli meats" for sandwiches? CHECK. - Breakfast cereals? Almost universal. If it has "modified corn starch", that's HFCS under a disguised name. - Salty-type snacks? Check. Even the supposedly all-natural pita chips. - Anything from Chef Boyardee. Check. - Frozen pizzas waiting to be heated up? Check. Turns out they add HFCS to the goddamn tomato sauce.
The list goes on but I think you get the picture. We're being fed HFCS EVERYWHERE and we just saw a major study done showing an effect on HFCS, either by brain chemistry or satiety reflex, causing obesity. If they were feeding rats the same stuff in their "fatty foods" (and cheesecake is OMG FUCKING FULL OF IT)...
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Why would I want a big, phoneless iPhone designed for people with hands the size of Peter Mayhew's, precisely?
Apple has had plenty of "oops that was a big old miss" products they tried to market as "revolutionary." I expect the iPad to go the way of the Macbook Air - everything it does, a touchscreen Netbook does better and for less cost.
Hey wait a second - didn't they already do this one?
"collective punishment"? Hmm?
Show me a "collective punishment" and I'll show you a house with a munitions lab in the garage or a smuggling tunnel under the foundation.
Or a Red Crescent ambulance hauling armed, un-uniformed troops off to a conflict in violation of the Red Crescent charter and ICRC regulations, not to mention the "international law" your racist friends are so fond of applying only when it suits them.
And I see you're an anonymous coward... too cowardly, just like the Hamassholes, to even put your name to your words.
For example, a force that does not wear uniforms and hides among civilians is both not entitled to the protections of the conventions, but also is the responsible party in any attack that kills those civilians.
And yet day in, day out, we hear from nutcases claiming Israel "violates" the Geneva Conventions when fighting back against the Hamassholes, Hizb'al'bullshits, Fatahsses, etc...
More importantly, if you have an omnimech, say, why aren't all its hardpoints generic hardpoints, rather than having them typed like they do in the game? It would have bothered me less if IS designs had limited hardpoint configurations but omnimechs had full flexibility.
Because even Clan "Omni" 'mechs weren't all Omni? If you had read most of the sourcebooks, many of the Clan "Omni" mechs still were (at least as far as sourcebook/novel) limited to certain areas being Omni. Arms were especially good for this, as were missile pods, the torso sections were much less likely to be Omni-capable.
Omni technology is EXPENSIVE. Even for the Clans, only the top-of-the-line, front-line Omnimech forces got the "full omnimech" treatment. Most of the Clan units were either partial-Omni only, or were plain old "what you get is what you get" setups.
anyone remember way back 40-50 years ago when the Patent Office was still... well... COMPETENT and denied patents for "discoveries" that were either (a) the logical next step (which according to law is nonpatentable) or BLATANTLY FUCKING OBVIOUS?
They're supposed to. 35 USC, Section 103(a).
MW4 wasn't "unfaithful", it merely incorporated more material (specifically, the hardpoint limitations and more faithfully applied the weapon reload times) from the Solaris VII material and Mechwarrior RPG books that FASA themselves wrote, in order to make you have honest choices between mech chassis.
Remember, in the tabletop game, if you want a "custom" 'mech, you have to either be (a) an elite front-line Clan warrior or (b) insanely fucking rich (Solaris champion, IS House, owner of a mech factory, etc). Most pilots have to use whatever stock configuration came off the assembly line that they got assigned to by their merc unit or army.
Yeah, it took me a bit to adjust to the "type-specific" hardpoints, but after a while they made some sense, and it added a bit more dimension to the possible choices of ride.
They must have all had beer goggles on. Have you ever seen how ugly toads are?
Wait.
Oh shit. Sorry scientist-dudes, but your premise is busted. Me and my buddies were out getting shit-faced that night and I think I just figured out where I spilled my last beer...
"whilst no foul play was found, the commission slammed Jones and the University for it's hap hazard approach."
In other words, the foregone conclusion they were ordered to come up with - "nothing to see here, move along folks" clashes with reality. So they inserted weasel words like hell till they could still give the pollies, who had ordered a specific conclusion, to say "see the results say nothing was wrong."
If you can't see how twisted and fucked-up this "investigation" is, I have only two questions remaining: what fucked-up shit are you smoking to get you that detached from reality, and why won't you share with the rest of us you stingy bastard?
Does this mean we need to nuke... our imagination?
The problem with "cap and trade" is that it is set up to be another corrupt program in the vein of the pre-NAFTA "licenses to sell peanuts" in the US, which made it so a host of white farmers (whose families had owned all the available licenses since the original program had been established) made $$$ selling theirs domestically, while newcoming white/latino/african-american farmers made... well... "peanuts" being forced to sell theirs to Canada, Mexico, or overseas instead in the globally competitive market.
said the lawmakers had been in a rush to publish
No kidding. A political body doing an "investigation" like this? The phrase "the fix is in" seems to apply here - if you are honest, you have to admit the conclusion was pretty much decided before any "investigation" by the body was done, regardless of whether you trust current climate science or not.
They should name schools after people like him.
Sure, whatever. Name whatever you want.
What they REALLY should do is stop dumbing down the curriculum and "passing" ever-crappier performance, and follow the methods he used (no more excuses, no more "but it's hard why should I learn" bullcrap). Set the bar high and the kids will reach for it, set the bar low and kids will nap.
He had a funny role playing himself on TV for a while, but really, these days - have you seen any recent interviews? Many of his statements haven't been good. He aligns himself with the cult of $cientology, never claiming to "join" but always talking them up.
And then there's the weirdness of his buying his talentless son a star role in a movie, and getting the desperate-for-money Jackie Chan to star in what is blasphemously being called now "the Karate Kid" (or in China, "the Kung-Fu Kid")... ack.
Far as I can tell, Will Smith is played out and would be better just retiring.
Now as for Independence Day... they REALLY think they can get two more movies out of that premise? Eek.
Let the games begin!
Let the jokes begin - starting with the article's double entendre headline! This should be more fun than the naming of Nintendo's Weewee!
I'm going to sue you for insulting all of us insensitive clods, you insensitive clod!
Fuck you.
Corn lobby lawyers threatened the FDA, so the FDA made sure that they don't bother to give a real definition for "natural."
They deliberately said "we don't have the resources to bother to define this". They've gone back and forth since, mostly because they're under-budgeted and still don't have the heft to get into a court fight with the corn cartel's lawyers.
HFCS is less natural - requiring more chemically-intensive steps and molecular rearrangement to produce - than the "synthetic" dextrose. If you can bring yourself to call it "natural", you're either delusional or you live in Iowa married to your cousin.
It's your definition of "natural" that is meaningless.
Bullshit. One of the greatest lies of modern food packaging is insisting that items that are 2,3,4,5 or more steps removed from the "natural" origination are still "natural." HFCS was originally produced using industrially packaged glucoamylase enzymes, but to dodge and claim it to be "natural", they now stick the Aspergillus fungus (yes, this nasty shit) right into the vat. Then they run the sludge through this industrially packaged shit for another conversion process.
Splenda (sucralose) is "sugar-derived." HFCS is "corn-derived." They both go through roughly the same amount of processing steps from the "natural" source (sugar/corn) and NEITHER of them actually occur naturally.
Nothing produced with HFCS is "natural." Period. The only thing keeping that label on things with HFCS currently is the corn lobby's lawyer brigade.
An apple is "natural."
An apple pie is cooked. Processed. Definitely not "natural" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Yes, I was referring to the famous plant genus Conium, the subject of Socrates' famous last words, "I drank what?"
It's done by:
#1 - milling corn
#2 - "steeping" the milled corn in acid water.
#3 - cyclonic and screen separation (to separate oil, starch, and hulls)
#4 - finer-grade milling
#5 - more separation (to pull Gluten out)
#6 - Multiple cycles of acid and enyzme soaks to convert glucose mix into "90%" fructose mix
#7 - re-blending with bare "glucose mix"
#8 - liquid chromatography pushes the fructose/glucose mix back to 90% fructose
#9 - more back-blending to get to the "45/55%" mix commonly used.
Between the enzyme process, acid washes, and all the other steps and additions, that's why I describe any definition of this as "natural" as a "tortured as fuck." definition.
Actually, for a long while MS Games was doing great things for the PC gaming community - bringing some pretty awesome developers with cool and innovative games the needed money and advertising power to get their games out into the world.
Then, that crashed when they rolled all those developers into the Xbox fold. Crimson Skies was followed by the pukefest "Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge." Mechwarrior 4/Black Knight/Mercenaries saw Mechwarrior 5 canceled in favor of the crapfests Mechassault and Mechassault 2. The "Shadowrun" for Xbox? Epic Fail. Digital Anvil were forced to produce the crapfest Brute Force. Repeat ad nauseum.
MS has four big divisions: OS, Office, "Toys" (mobile OS and mobile programs mostly) and Games. Blame each in turn for their own fuck-ups.
As I've been researching it recently I've been finding it listed as a "preservative" in addition to a sweetener.
So in the last 20 years, as people have been freaking out about sodium intake and wanting "reduced salt" in everything from canned vegetables onwards, we now have... wait for it... HFCS-laden everything. Check the recipe for your favorite "reduced sodium" this-or-that, it'll have HFCS added in higher quantity, usually with some other substance to try to mask the sweetening effect.
It's processed as fuck, but still "natural" according to the tortured-as-fuck definition the corn lobby uses to get away with selling it for "all-natural" foods.
Remember: Hemlock is "organic." Arsenic is "all-natural."
How about the HFCS question?
For fuck's sake, there's HFCS in just about everything we eat these days. After the recent study, I went through my pantry. Wanted to see precisely how much of the stuff it was in.
- Hot dogs? CHECK.
- Oscar Mayer "deli meats" for sandwiches? CHECK.
- Breakfast cereals? Almost universal. If it has "modified corn starch", that's HFCS under a disguised name.
- Salty-type snacks? Check. Even the supposedly all-natural pita chips.
- Anything from Chef Boyardee. Check.
- Frozen pizzas waiting to be heated up? Check. Turns out they add HFCS to the goddamn tomato sauce.
The list goes on but I think you get the picture. We're being fed HFCS EVERYWHERE and we just saw a major study done showing an effect on HFCS, either by brain chemistry or satiety reflex, causing obesity. If they were feeding rats the same stuff in their "fatty foods" (and cheesecake is OMG FUCKING FULL OF IT)...