what speed are the ships sailing at in the American Cup? i can imagine spending $78 million on a sub that will only get to film ten or twelve seconds of ships plowing by;p~
as for reality tv, i agree. get voted off of Big Brother and they shove you out the hatch. hey, even if they don't set the next series on a sub they should consider drowning all of the failed contestants. it would sure make it all a lot more dramatic.
My current favorite strategy game is Hasbro's Risk. The only difference between the computer players on Easy, Med, Hard and Expert is their level of aggressiveness. The same tactics defeat them regardless of what level you set it at, you just have to be prepared for a more determined counter attack. An AI that thought it was Naploean or Ghengis Khan would rock some ass
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i live on Vancouver Island and i can only imagine what kinda storm'll break the first time a whale gets snagged by one of these contraptions. whale watching is a big industry here (just one more way to seperate the tourists from their dollars). not to mention the HIGH concentration of environmentalists that live on the coast of BC, many of whom already feel that there is too much impact on the environment.
of coarse, these same greens aren't too fond of the hydro-electric damns, so maybe this'll be the lesser evil.
What do you mean it can't carry a lander? Didn't you watch Armageddon!? Shit, those titanium plated shuttles managed to carry a mobile drilling vehicle and a whole crew of crappy actors without too much problem.
"NASA works like the US Military, and tries to keep its business within the us. It doesn't usually outsource."
Actually we get lots of Defence Department contracts up here in Canada. Also the Canadian Space Agency has contributed some things to the US Space program. The Canadarm for example.
Gygax has been writing a column for Dragon magazine (a publication of TSR) since about the launch of 3E. i thought that they had reconciled somewhat. does anyone know if he has been involved at all with the relaunch of Greyhawk?
History:
The US wasn't willing to accept negotiation. They demanded UNCONDITIONAL surrender. Japanese peace feelers had been extended to Russia (by a Japanese prince, I believe) but no one was willing to talk.
Japanese moderates were waiting for assurances that they could have peace before attempting the difficult task of overthrowing the radical militants.
And even if a bomb did have to be used, why wasn't a Japanese entourage invited to watch the detination of a Bomb on some deserted island. The sight of a detination should have been enough to frighten them into peace without slaughtering thousands of civilians.
Mao called the American bomb a "paper tiger". Several times he is quoted as saying that he hopes that the Americans drop a bomb to prove who was morally correct.
China isn't afraid of US nukes. a fight with China is a baaaad idea. just let them have Taiwan (pragmatism). they haven't fucked up Hong Kong too much.
The reason that there is a North and South Korea in the first place is because the US and USSR had to divide the damn peninsula in the first place. It is a civil war that has been waiting to fight itself out for over fifty years now. I say, let 'em go at it and then they can get on with their lives.
After all, the US was allowed to have its own little North/South tiff without too much interference.
The US gov has always considered using the Bomb on non-nuclear powers. (Japan wasn't nuclear)
In Korea in the 1950s the American government considered the use of the Bomb really early in the war (it was already being discussed two weeks into the conflict), even before Chinese "volunteers" got involved.
In December 1951 MacArthur was begging to use the bomb. later in life we said "I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs... strung across the neck of Manchuria." He then claimed that he would have "spread behind us -from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea- a belt of radioactive cobalt... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the North."
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and even Truman were all considering the use of the bomb. Their major problem was not having anything big enough to point it at (guerrilla fighters generally don't bunch together). Probably another reason for building smaller bombs.
The US gov has always considered nukes an option, even if the enemy is non-nuclear. If they feel they could do it without severe repricussions, they would.
there never was a war. that's the problem, according to some people. if war had been declared then the conquest of first nations lands could be justified. in any event, i'm a white male Canadian. i have serious issues with the way that the whole "native" issue is dealt with. for one thing, being a racist is allowed if you're first nations. in fact it's encouraged. in my home town we have an annual native hockey tournament that only people of first nations descent are allowed to participate in. should we try to organize a white only hockey tournament, i can only imagine the panic! yet the native hockey tournament has passed without notice year after year. another issue is the idea of the native as a "steward of the land". that is complete horse sh--. to believe that someone will respect the environment more because of their ethnicity is pure crap. it's up there with Hitler's ideas of Aryanism. another issue that i have is the word "native". i was born in British Columbia and yet i am referred to as a non-native. this pisses me off like nothing else that i can describe. somehow i am less connected to this land -the only land that i have ever lived in- because my skin colour is white. i AM a native of Canada. if people want to be PC then be universal about it. the last point that i want to make is this. many of the peoples who moved to this land started their lives in pretty awful conditions similar to those on many reserves. Irish dockworkers and African slaves are two examples. how then, did these two groups manage to progress through society when the First Nations have not? discrimination was a valid excuse a few decades ago, but today it is not. every job that i've ever applied for i've been asked if i was "native" because of affirmitive action legislation. the reason that poverty has remained such a huge problem on many reserves is twofold. first, handouts have become a handicap. people are told from their youngest days that they have been defeated, that Canadian society hates them and that the proper course is to complain and eventually you'll get a handout. the second problem is the MASSIVE corruption in the tribal governments. i can't get into this too much, but i've dated the daughter of a former chief and let me just say that they get away with WAY too much, often at the expense of their own people.
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come to the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada. there are more submarines there than in the Canadian navy.
what speed are the ships sailing at in the American Cup? i can imagine spending $78 million on a sub that will only get to film ten or twelve seconds of ships plowing by ;p~
as for reality tv, i agree. get voted off of Big Brother and they shove you out the hatch. hey, even if they don't set the next series on a sub they should consider drowning all of the failed contestants. it would sure make it all a lot more dramatic.
My current favorite strategy game is Hasbro's Risk. The only difference between the computer players on Easy, Med, Hard and Expert is their level of aggressiveness. The same tactics defeat them regardless of what level you set it at, you just have to be prepared for a more determined counter attack.
An AI that thought it was Naploean or Ghengis Khan would rock some ass
"Spam is defined as unrequested commercial bulk email that has either a misleading subject line and/or invalid return address."
The problem is, if you try to convince the spammer to send you more info so that you can track them, this would invalidate the "unrequested" part of the definition of Spam.
i live on Vancouver Island and i can only imagine what kinda storm'll break the first time a whale gets snagged by one of these contraptions. whale watching is a big industry here (just one more way to seperate the tourists from their dollars). not to mention the HIGH concentration of environmentalists that live on the coast of BC, many of whom already feel that there is too much impact on the environment. of coarse, these same greens aren't too fond of the hydro-electric damns, so maybe this'll be the lesser evil.
What do you mean it can't carry a lander? Didn't you watch Armageddon!? Shit, those titanium plated shuttles managed to carry a mobile drilling vehicle and a whole crew of crappy actors without too much problem.
"NASA works like the US Military, and tries to keep its business within the us. It doesn't usually outsource."
Actually we get lots of Defence Department contracts up here in Canada.
Also the Canadian Space Agency has contributed some things to the US Space program. The Canadarm for example.
Gygax has been writing a column for Dragon magazine (a publication of TSR) since about the launch of 3E. i thought that they had reconciled somewhat.
does anyone know if he has been involved at all with the relaunch of Greyhawk?
The decision to divide Korea was made at Potsdam before the UN even existed.
History: The US wasn't willing to accept negotiation. They demanded UNCONDITIONAL surrender. Japanese peace feelers had been extended to Russia (by a Japanese prince, I believe) but no one was willing to talk. Japanese moderates were waiting for assurances that they could have peace before attempting the difficult task of overthrowing the radical militants. And even if a bomb did have to be used, why wasn't a Japanese entourage invited to watch the detination of a Bomb on some deserted island. The sight of a detination should have been enough to frighten them into peace without slaughtering thousands of civilians.
Mao called the American bomb a "paper tiger". Several times he is quoted as saying that he hopes that the Americans drop a bomb to prove who was morally correct. China isn't afraid of US nukes. a fight with China is a baaaad idea. just let them have Taiwan (pragmatism). they haven't fucked up Hong Kong too much.
The reason that there is a North and South Korea in the first place is because the US and USSR had to divide the damn peninsula in the first place. It is a civil war that has been waiting to fight itself out for over fifty years now. I say, let 'em go at it and then they can get on with their lives. After all, the US was allowed to have its own little North/South tiff without too much interference.
The US gov has always considered using the Bomb on non-nuclear powers. (Japan wasn't nuclear) In Korea in the 1950s the American government considered the use of the Bomb really early in the war (it was already being discussed two weeks into the conflict), even before Chinese "volunteers" got involved. In December 1951 MacArthur was begging to use the bomb. later in life we said "I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs... strung across the neck of Manchuria." He then claimed that he would have "spread behind us -from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea- a belt of radioactive cobalt... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the North." The Joint Chiefs of Staff and even Truman were all considering the use of the bomb. Their major problem was not having anything big enough to point it at (guerrilla fighters generally don't bunch together). Probably another reason for building smaller bombs. The US gov has always considered nukes an option, even if the enemy is non-nuclear. If they feel they could do it without severe repricussions, they would.
there never was a war. that's the problem, according to some people. if war had been declared then the conquest of first nations lands could be justified.
in any event, i'm a white male Canadian. i have serious issues with the way that the whole "native" issue is dealt with.
for one thing, being a racist is allowed if you're first nations. in fact it's encouraged. in my home town we have an annual native hockey tournament that only people of first nations descent are allowed to participate in. should we try to organize a white only hockey tournament, i can only imagine the panic! yet the native hockey tournament has passed without notice year after year.
another issue is the idea of the native as a "steward of the land". that is complete horse sh--. to believe that someone will respect the environment more because of their ethnicity is pure crap. it's up there with Hitler's ideas of Aryanism.
another issue that i have is the word "native". i was born in British Columbia and yet i am referred to as a non-native. this pisses me off like nothing else that i can describe. somehow i am less connected to this land -the only land that i have ever lived in- because my skin colour is white. i AM a native of Canada. if people want to be PC then be universal about it.
the last point that i want to make is this. many of the peoples who moved to this land started their lives in pretty awful conditions similar to those on many reserves. Irish dockworkers and African slaves are two examples. how then, did these two groups manage to progress through society when the First Nations have not? discrimination was a valid excuse a few decades ago, but today it is not. every job that i've ever applied for i've been asked if i was "native" because of affirmitive action legislation. the reason that poverty has remained such a huge problem on many reserves is twofold. first, handouts have become a handicap. people are told from their youngest days that they have been defeated, that Canadian society hates them and that the proper course is to complain and eventually you'll get a handout. the second problem is the MASSIVE corruption in the tribal governments. i can't get into this too much, but i've dated the daughter of a former chief and let me just say that they get away with WAY too much, often at the expense of their own people.