The GP just says that when given the choice between killing a child and not killing a child the choice ain't hard. Any sane person would conclude that the person did NOT kill the child.
Really? Because if you save them, you're missing out on a whole lot of Adam. I tried saving a few of them to see what the reward for being good was; the 'hypnotise Big Daddy' was useful occasionally, but on the whole I prefer to take the Adam and spend it on what I want, rather than letting it go in the hope of getting hand-outs later. I mean, am I not entitled to the sweat of my brow?
This does not imply that without god things, and by extension life, has no value, or that god existing gives things a greater value, merely that if there is a god such as that described in most monotheistic religions then all things must have at least some value.
It also does not mean that life has any greater value than the various kinds of non-life in the universe. For instance, clearly God values rocks far more highly than he does life; he made an awful lot of rocks, but life? Not so much. And don't get me started on God's obvious hydrogen fetish.
In fact, come to think of it, baryonic matter itself is clearly just a minor side project to God. It comprises only a tiny minority of the Universe's mass, after all. Since he made so much of it, God must value dark matter highly indeed.
That sounds like a good deal. The current estimates for decommissioning the UK's nuclear reactors, which are nearing end-of-life, are £70 billion for 19 sites. That's, what, $120 billion, or something like $6 billion per site? If Three Mile Island cost one sixth of that amount to clean up, the accident must have been very minor indeed.
Clearly you are thinking of Return of Zork, Zork had no graphics at all.
No, the original Zork. Lovingly rendered from start to finish. The rural simplicity of the field west of a white house, with a mailbox - a picture of cosy domesticity belying the subterranean horrors to follow. The strange carvings on the walls below, denouncing at length those who went around saying 'Hello Sailor'. The terrifying river voyage in the Frobozz magic inflatable boat. And above all I'll never forget the first time I emerged from a dark tunnel to gaze across the magnificent vistas of Flood Control Dam #3.
I don't think I've ever explored any environment so utterly beautiful in any game since then. Zork had some of the best graphics I've ever experienced. It just used an innovative encoding system to offload the scene rendering to external wetware.
Occasionally, people who work in advertising or marketing actually realise the horror of what they're doing to the world. Then they put it into a funny advert instead of killing themselves.
As you'll see here.
The thing is, if you all don't have nuclear weapons, and I covertly do, I win.
But zer whole point of ein... nuclear deterrent is wasted if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell zer whole world, eh?
Secret nukes: bad idea. If your neighbour attacks you and you use nuclear weapons in self-defence, millions are dead. If you publish details of your armament to the world ahead of time, your neighbour never dares attack in the first place. Conversely, if you attack your neighbour with your secret arsenal, millions are dead and are rather surprised about it. If you publish ahead of time, your neighbour still can't do a damn thing to stop you that they wouldn't be doing anyway.
The best policy with these weapons is to keep their development as secret as possible, but once you have a working deterrent, tell the world as publicly as possible. If word gets out that a nuclear capability is in development, the Americans or the Israelis will attack you, but if nobody finds out until after you have already tested a device, they won't dare.
Actually it makes it 'Talk Like A Ninja Day' but/. can't participate since it still doesn't support unicode.
Wouldn't help anyway,/. doesn't speak Japanese. Fortunately, that's not necessary to talk like a ninja. Just add the suffix '-tebayo' to the end of random words. It doesn't mean anything but sounds dynamic and exciting, and the world's current most popular ninja does it all the fucking time. Believe it.
And he mentions to me this: that the US army likely has giant planes, floating around, with big plasma (or LCD or w/e) screens attached at the bottom, used to reflect what's above down below. So for non-government onlookers, nothing is there. But, go up into gvt-airspace, or out in to space, and tada! Giant airship! Able to stay in the sky fairly long; maybe not nuclear-powered, but maybe refueled from other planes, or simply refueled remotely and "carried up"...
This would not work. Consider: you have your secret airship, and beneath it you hang a giant screen on which you show an image of the sky. If you make the image good enough, an observer directly below would notice nothing. What about an observer off to one side? He'd see a distorted image. What about an observer so far off to one side that your airship is hanging low in the sunset? He sees your secret giant airship plain and clear, and the giant screen hanging below it too. So maybe you have screens all over the surface in every direction? That too might work... but not when you're viewed from an angle placing you near the Sun. Your screens aren't that bright.
It would be far simpler to paint the airship sky blue and fly it above the clouds. You'd run into another problem at night, as some observers would see it occult the stars, or silhouetted against the moon. And of course if any astronomer on the ground happens to be doing an infrared survey, he'll see you bright as day - all your secret machinery and engines must produce waste heat. You'd have to move the thing around quite frequently.
But when you get right down to it, why would you bother? What are you doing with this airship? Surveillance, photography? You can do that with satellites. Perhaps you have bombs on board to drop on people? You have plenty of those on submarines, which are far easier to hide. Or is it full of planes? That's what aircraft carriers are for.
If I build a car and decide to sell it for $5000, your only options are to buy it for $5000 or not buy it for $5000. You can't just steal it from me and give me $1000 because that's all you think it's worth.
But if I build my own car to the same design as yours, and I feel generous enough to give you $1000 in thanks for coming up with such a cool design, I think you should be grateful.
All of the people who make up Anonymous who peacefully protested will all now be tainted by this one deed. Now, Scientology will claim (and have been claiming) that all of Anonymous are criminals and terrorists. It only takes one rotton apple.
You... really don't know Anonymous at all, do you? Read/b/ on 4chan for an hour or so, if you can bear it. That is Anonymous.
Right now on the front page of that imageboard is a photograph of some girl and the challenge 'Count to 10 and I'll post the full set of her newds', a photograph of another girl and the question 'Would/b/ hit it?', a drawing of a gorilla and the challenge 'Write a proper haiku displaying your distaste for black people', two topless women and a request for porn site passwords, a comic strip of Sakura sucking off Gaara, an old copy-paste flame, two threads consisting of some guy fishing for approval of his looks, a whole thread in which people are just repeating the word 'wat', a nude of some girl on a sofa along with a request for porn, a thread about The Game (which you just lost by the way), someone asking for shock pics to set as someone's wallpaper as a prank, Ben Franklin for some bloody reason, and a thread requesting Rule 34 (that's porn in case you couldn't guess) of some character I don't recognise.
In what possible way could Scientology slander these people?
Recently, we have the guy using cTunnel to access Palin's email account, when he could have easily used TOR and had essentially 0% chance of being caught, or if that's to hard, at least multiple web-based proxies.
I never understood how he made that mistake. It's standard Anonymous procedure in such operations to be behind at least 7 proxies.
The young woman infringed knowingly... the stolen entertainment
Very slick. You begin by talking about things being infringed, in order to get people off their guard, then shift seamlessly into talking about things being stolen, as if they're quite the same thing. Of course you know the difference full well.
It's all about calculated risk - piss off some English Catholics, you get some peeved letters in the local paper. Piss off Muslims, you get explosions, beheadings, and people living out their lives in hiding.
Actually, the cathedral in question was Anglican, not Catholic. When English Catholics get sufficiently pissed off, they'll rent a cellar underneath your house and load it up with enough gunpowder to blow you up and take half the city with you.
I very much doubt Jesus was an Easterner. He is described as living in Judaea, and having lived all his life in Nazareth. His name is Jewish (it's a Romanisation of 'Joshua'). And reading his teachings, he refers frequently to the Hebrew scriptures, which he clearly knows in great detail, as is expected of an educated Jew.
it also set the framework for abolitionism in the middle east a full 12 centuries before abe lincoln.
Setting a framework is good. Action is better. When was slavery actually abolished in Muslim lands, and why?
Slavery in England had been banned since at least 1215, possibly 1102, and serfdom died out by 1600; a court ruling in 1772 confirmed that no English law permitted the condition of slavery to exist in the country any way. Slavery was abolished across the whole Empire in 1807. The United States abolished slavery in 1865. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962.
the practice of slavery is now antiquated, and disgusting universally, and that includes the 1.2billion muslims in this world.
Antiquated. That's a funny way to refer to an institution that's been gone for all of 46 years.
Give me a single line of the New Testament saying to go and kill people.
If I remember aright, Jesus instructed his followers, who included at least two terrorists, to go and buy swords. Apart from killing people, what use is there for such things?
And this is why the languages of the classical era should be taught in schools. FYI: it's Greek. The 'a-' prefix indicates a negation or absence, the 'the-' is short for 'theos' meaning a god, and '-ism' indicates a group, a belief or a movement. Hence 'atheism', the belief that there are no gods.
I can't even begin to speculate on what aethiesm would be.
The DRM really isn't that horrible, and it absolutely does stop casual pirates.
How's that, then? A casual pirate who, what, burns off a copy on CD for his mates? What do you think this is, 1999? A casual pirate downloads a cracked copy from TPB, mounts the image in Daemon Tools or similar, and plays it that way. He never even encounters the DRM.
If you see someone talking about SS2, well that is just because they are to young to know better.
System Shock had a better plot, I think, but it wasn't as scary.
The trick for me to make a scary game is NOT darkness or making the player helpless but rather to give him just enough power to be cautious. Give me a grenade that I can use to clear a room, killing everything in sight, but I got ONE grenade, and there are 5 rooms. When do I use it. Now, in the first room or save it for monsters yet to come. Are there monsters beyond this room. Do I use the health potion now or later?
And this is why: System Shock overdid it. Between the magnum, the flechette rifle and the Skorpion, most living things went down quickly, and if you were careful with your magpulse ammo droids weren't a problem either. Beyond that there was just so much demolitions ordnance around that you could set up spectacularly lethal kill zones. Feeling poorly? Scum the medical level, all the feeble mutants down there drop health patches. By the end of the game you're running around with a sack full of stimulant drugs, another sack full of high explosives, enough firearms to equip a small army, a personal force shield, and a lightsaber. That game could be daunting - every time you think you've achieved something SHODAN unveils yet another plan - and the monsters were many and powerful, but it normally wasn't frightening. It was Doom with an intelligent plot.
System Shock 2 cut back your supplies drastically. Weapons wore out and broke down, but that wasn't a problem because you rarely had any ammo to put in them anyway. They nerfed the lightsaber, recharges were harder to come by, healing kits were much harder to come by. Cameras, well... you're not destroying them because that's how you unlock the lift to the next level, you're destroying them because otherwise they'll sound the alarm and the robots will come for you.
You couldn't Quake through SS2. You'd get killed, fast. You hacked what you could, built sanctuaries where the turrets were your friends, and if you met anything nasty outside those areas you ran like shite. You hid, you sneaked. You were being stalked every step of the way. That's frightening.
Oh, and the psi monkeys. And the spiders. Oh God, the spiders...
You sound like somebody who is in need of a dose of System Shock 2.
I wanted to play through that again to get over the vague sense of disappointment after I finished Bioshock. Unfortunately it looks like arse on a 1440x900 monitor. Fortunately, a couple of weeks ago someone published a widescreen patch. I'm busy at the moment fighting off the king of France's expeditionary force which is about six times the size of my rebel army, but once I've finished building my free state on top of a mountain of skulls I'll be back on the Von Braun in high resolution:-)
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I'm not sure what you'd have for a ringtone, but I'm tempted to sample 'Mr Bubbles! Mr Bubbles, wake up!' for my alarm sound.
Apparently they're going to make the DRM less intrusive on this one. They've just written on the disc 'Would you kindly not pirate this game'.
You can. But if you're interested in sheer speed, then it's straight-line records like this which are interesting.
Really? Because if you save them, you're missing out on a whole lot of Adam. I tried saving a few of them to see what the reward for being good was; the 'hypnotise Big Daddy' was useful occasionally, but on the whole I prefer to take the Adam and spend it on what I want, rather than letting it go in the hope of getting hand-outs later. I mean, am I not entitled to the sweat of my brow?
Make it an R-grade implant and a sack full of cybernetic modules and it's a deal. Inssssect.
It also does not mean that life has any greater value than the various kinds of non-life in the universe. For instance, clearly God values rocks far more highly than he does life; he made an awful lot of rocks, but life? Not so much. And don't get me started on God's obvious hydrogen fetish.
In fact, come to think of it, baryonic matter itself is clearly just a minor side project to God. It comprises only a tiny minority of the Universe's mass, after all. Since he made so much of it, God must value dark matter highly indeed.
That sounds like a good deal. The current estimates for decommissioning the UK's nuclear reactors, which are nearing end-of-life, are £70 billion for 19 sites. That's, what, $120 billion, or something like $6 billion per site? If Three Mile Island cost one sixth of that amount to clean up, the accident must have been very minor indeed.
No, the original Zork. Lovingly rendered from start to finish. The rural simplicity of the field west of a white house, with a mailbox - a picture of cosy domesticity belying the subterranean horrors to follow. The strange carvings on the walls below, denouncing at length those who went around saying 'Hello Sailor'. The terrifying river voyage in the Frobozz magic inflatable boat. And above all I'll never forget the first time I emerged from a dark tunnel to gaze across the magnificent vistas of Flood Control Dam #3.
I don't think I've ever explored any environment so utterly beautiful in any game since then. Zork had some of the best graphics I've ever experienced. It just used an innovative encoding system to offload the scene rendering to external wetware.
Occasionally, people who work in advertising or marketing actually realise the horror of what they're doing to the world. Then they put it into a funny advert instead of killing themselves. As you'll see here.
But zer whole point of ein... nuclear deterrent is wasted if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell zer whole world, eh?
Secret nukes: bad idea. If your neighbour attacks you and you use nuclear weapons in self-defence, millions are dead. If you publish details of your armament to the world ahead of time, your neighbour never dares attack in the first place. Conversely, if you attack your neighbour with your secret arsenal, millions are dead and are rather surprised about it. If you publish ahead of time, your neighbour still can't do a damn thing to stop you that they wouldn't be doing anyway.
The best policy with these weapons is to keep their development as secret as possible, but once you have a working deterrent, tell the world as publicly as possible. If word gets out that a nuclear capability is in development, the Americans or the Israelis will attack you, but if nobody finds out until after you have already tested a device, they won't dare.
Wouldn't help anyway, /. doesn't speak Japanese. Fortunately, that's not necessary to talk like a ninja. Just add the suffix '-tebayo' to the end of random words. It doesn't mean anything but sounds dynamic and exciting, and the world's current most popular ninja does it all the fucking time. Believe it.
This would not work. Consider: you have your secret airship, and beneath it you hang a giant screen on which you show an image of the sky. If you make the image good enough, an observer directly below would notice nothing. What about an observer off to one side? He'd see a distorted image. What about an observer so far off to one side that your airship is hanging low in the sunset? He sees your secret giant airship plain and clear, and the giant screen hanging below it too. So maybe you have screens all over the surface in every direction? That too might work... but not when you're viewed from an angle placing you near the Sun. Your screens aren't that bright.
It would be far simpler to paint the airship sky blue and fly it above the clouds. You'd run into another problem at night, as some observers would see it occult the stars, or silhouetted against the moon. And of course if any astronomer on the ground happens to be doing an infrared survey, he'll see you bright as day - all your secret machinery and engines must produce waste heat. You'd have to move the thing around quite frequently.
But when you get right down to it, why would you bother? What are you doing with this airship? Surveillance, photography? You can do that with satellites. Perhaps you have bombs on board to drop on people? You have plenty of those on submarines, which are far easier to hide. Or is it full of planes? That's what aircraft carriers are for.
But if I build my own car to the same design as yours, and I feel generous enough to give you $1000 in thanks for coming up with such a cool design, I think you should be grateful.
You... really don't know Anonymous at all, do you? Read /b/ on 4chan for an hour or so, if you can bear it. That is Anonymous.
Right now on the front page of that imageboard is a photograph of some girl and the challenge 'Count to 10 and I'll post the full set of her newds', a photograph of another girl and the question 'Would /b/ hit it?', a drawing of a gorilla and the challenge 'Write a proper haiku displaying your distaste for black people', two topless women and a request for porn site passwords, a comic strip of Sakura sucking off Gaara, an old copy-paste flame, two threads consisting of some guy fishing for approval of his looks, a whole thread in which people are just repeating the word 'wat', a nude of some girl on a sofa along with a request for porn, a thread about The Game (which you just lost by the way), someone asking for shock pics to set as someone's wallpaper as a prank, Ben Franklin for some bloody reason, and a thread requesting Rule 34 (that's porn in case you couldn't guess) of some character I don't recognise.
In what possible way could Scientology slander these people?
I never understood how he made that mistake. It's standard Anonymous procedure in such operations to be behind at least 7 proxies.
Very slick. You begin by talking about things being infringed, in order to get people off their guard, then shift seamlessly into talking about things being stolen, as if they're quite the same thing. Of course you know the difference full well.
Actually, the cathedral in question was Anglican, not Catholic. When English Catholics get sufficiently pissed off, they'll rent a cellar underneath your house and load it up with enough gunpowder to blow you up and take half the city with you.
I gather that scholars of such matters generally place Jesus as part of the Essene tradition. It's not impossible that he had been exposed to Eastern thought, though. The Roman Empire traded along the Silk Road, and Chinese silk adorned the rich imperial elite. It's certainly possible that ideas originating from the Buddha or from Confucius were in circulation in first-century Judaea and might have caught the imagination of a piously-inclined young carpenter.
Setting a framework is good. Action is better. When was slavery actually abolished in Muslim lands, and why?
Slavery in England had been banned since at least 1215, possibly 1102, and serfdom died out by 1600; a court ruling in 1772 confirmed that no English law permitted the condition of slavery to exist in the country any way. Slavery was abolished across the whole Empire in 1807. The United States abolished slavery in 1865. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962.
the practice of slavery is now antiquated, and disgusting universally, and that includes the 1.2billion muslims in this world.
Antiquated. That's a funny way to refer to an institution that's been gone for all of 46 years.
If I remember aright, Jesus instructed his followers, who included at least two terrorists, to go and buy swords. Apart from killing people, what use is there for such things?
And this is why the languages of the classical era should be taught in schools. FYI: it's Greek. The 'a-' prefix indicates a negation or absence, the 'the-' is short for 'theos' meaning a god, and '-ism' indicates a group, a belief or a movement. Hence 'atheism', the belief that there are no gods.
I can't even begin to speculate on what aethiesm would be.
Buddha says that the forgiveness that he offers is not forgiveness. Therefore it is called forgiveness.
How's that, then? A casual pirate who, what, burns off a copy on CD for his mates? What do you think this is, 1999? A casual pirate downloads a cracked copy from TPB, mounts the image in Daemon Tools or similar, and plays it that way. He never even encounters the DRM.
System Shock had a better plot, I think, but it wasn't as scary.
The trick for me to make a scary game is NOT darkness or making the player helpless but rather to give him just enough power to be cautious. Give me a grenade that I can use to clear a room, killing everything in sight, but I got ONE grenade, and there are 5 rooms. When do I use it. Now, in the first room or save it for monsters yet to come. Are there monsters beyond this room. Do I use the health potion now or later?
And this is why: System Shock overdid it. Between the magnum, the flechette rifle and the Skorpion, most living things went down quickly, and if you were careful with your magpulse ammo droids weren't a problem either. Beyond that there was just so much demolitions ordnance around that you could set up spectacularly lethal kill zones. Feeling poorly? Scum the medical level, all the feeble mutants down there drop health patches. By the end of the game you're running around with a sack full of stimulant drugs, another sack full of high explosives, enough firearms to equip a small army, a personal force shield, and a lightsaber. That game could be daunting - every time you think you've achieved something SHODAN unveils yet another plan - and the monsters were many and powerful, but it normally wasn't frightening. It was Doom with an intelligent plot.
System Shock 2 cut back your supplies drastically. Weapons wore out and broke down, but that wasn't a problem because you rarely had any ammo to put in them anyway. They nerfed the lightsaber, recharges were harder to come by, healing kits were much harder to come by. Cameras, well... you're not destroying them because that's how you unlock the lift to the next level, you're destroying them because otherwise they'll sound the alarm and the robots will come for you.
You couldn't Quake through SS2. You'd get killed, fast. You hacked what you could, built sanctuaries where the turrets were your friends, and if you met anything nasty outside those areas you ran like shite. You hid, you sneaked. You were being stalked every step of the way. That's frightening.
Oh, and the psi monkeys. And the spiders. Oh God, the spiders...
I wanted to play through that again to get over the vague sense of disappointment after I finished Bioshock. Unfortunately it looks like arse on a 1440x900 monitor. Fortunately, a couple of weeks ago someone published a widescreen patch. I'm busy at the moment fighting off the king of France's expeditionary force which is about six times the size of my rebel army, but once I've finished building my free state on top of a mountain of skulls I'll be back on the Von Braun in high resolution :-)