No, Nightfall took place in a sextuple system inside a globular cluster, so that when night finally fell the people saw the sky _full_ of stars. They would probably have survived the sight of the few thousand stars in the sky of Earth, but millions gave them a horrible case of Krikkit syndrome.
If you, you know, read the article, you'd know they're changing the momentum of the electromagnetic fields in a quantum vacuum.
So, they're pushing on photons? I wonder if this is going to end up equivalent to a photon rocket: wonderful if you're trying to save on reaction mass, terrible if you're trying to save on energy?
It's the limeys' indomitable pigheadedness that is the source of all the trouble. They only need to dump Northern Ireland to EIRE; the orangists who live there will then appropriately dealed with by the irish or they will be repatriated to England, where they belong.
Indomitable pigheadedness, eh? So good of you to provide such a sterling example of what you mean by that. 'Appropriately dealed with'... real classy.
Name me a Linux based professional audio workstation on par with Pro Tools, Cubase, Sonar, Logic, Mixcraft, Tracktion, Reaper, etc., and doesn't require me to spend DAYS trying to get low latency drivers to work.
You want to use a netbook as a professional audio workstation?
If they target civilians out of choice, then they lose the right to claim freedom fighter status
In such a campaign, who's a civilian? Are informers considered civilians, or can the Resistance shoot them? Are collaborators considered civilians, or can the Resistance intimidate or terrorise them to discourage working with the enemy?
I'm pretty sure the French Resistance did both. So did the IRA.
However far-right it is not, this publication comes nowhere close to the retoric that spouts from the BNP
Actually, it does. The BNP have been trying to clean up their image lately; they try not to say anything explicitly racist, at least not in public. They're just concerned about uncontrolled immigration, you know? Oh, and Islam isn't a race so hating Muslims isn't racism. They sound uncannily like a Daily Mail opinion column.
Mind you, you can't call the Mail inconsistent on this; they've been concerned about uncontrolled immigration for decades. Like in 1938, when they were quite outraged about all the stateless Jews from Germany pouring in from every port.
How cute. Scientologists are trying character assassination. On Anonymous.
Here's a clue for you. Think of the worst, most awful, evil, appalling vice you possibly can. Now make it worse. Include a goat. And a small child. And two girls. And one cup. Got the mental image? Anonymous enjoys that stuff. They post pics of it, they're jaded about it, they even have a cute bear mascot to celebrate it.
If you want to insult Anonymous, suggest that they prefer it consensual and in the missionary position, for purposes of procreation. That's about the only thing they consider wrong.
I have an official limit of 1GB per month on my mobile phone, on O2 UK. I don't get anywhere near it - you can't make much of a dent in it by means of Opera Mini, and even hooking my mobile up to my netbook from time to time when I'm out and about doesn't add that much.
I might actually go ahead and fire up a torrent next time I'm bored on a train. Just out of sheer perversity.
It's just top to bottom black hole and collision jokes.
I know. You'd have to be a really strange person to think this sort of thing is in any way charming. If it were up to me, I'd moderate all of them down.
Honestly, i don't get the 'hoax' tag, the doom&gloom tag or even fear mongering could be seen as appropriate, but hoax?
Some emails were leaked on Friday from the climate research unit at the university of East Anglia. In about 150 megabytes of text, it turned out that in one of the emails, one of the researchers used the word 'trick' to describe some unspecified method of statistical analysis he had used on some dataset, and mentioned that it would 'hide the decline'. Everyone immediately saw that obviously this trick was dishonest and the decline in question was a real decline in temperatures, and it means that the entire field of climate science has been perpetrating a decades-long hoax on the world, and Al Gore should be tried for treason. Because you don't need any kind of context to know exactly what the word 'trick' refers to and what 'decline' is being hidden and why; your pre-existing political beliefs tell you all you should need to know.
That's why articles about climate change can expect to be tagged with such things for quite some time into the future.
10. In the GTA-series the police will have a 7th star that, if reached, launches a nuke at you. You die while being informed "unfortunately your family got caught in the blast too".
So far as I'm aware, the use of nuclear weapons against human beings is something no Socialist state has ever done.
Moving right along, here's the point: if you don't like a site's content, don't visit it again.
Isn't that a very silly thing to do? Suppose we have a curate's egg of a site, excellent in parts, where the good stuff is tricky to find among a great deal of crap. Suppose we have an easy and reliable means of excising the crap and presenting only the good stuff. Would it not be a pity to deny oneself the good stuff, because of crap that you can eliminate with the mere press of a button?
Much like the Bible Star Trek did have it's inconsistencies.
Nonsense, and I find that very offensive. If you think there are inconsistencies in Star Trek, you clearly haven't watched it carefully enough. While I'm sure you may think you have found an inconsistency or contradiction in the canon, you have to bear in mind multiple alternate and mirror universes, extra adventures between episodes that were not screened, the literary agent hypothesis, and the limitations of 1960s television as a medium. To so bluntly declare Trek inconsistent is an insult to millions of faithful Trekkers worldwide, and is criminal hate speech.
Viruses? Malware? Adware?
What are those?
Can you explain them to me? Pretend you are explaining them to someone who has no clue what they are.
(I run linux)
They're sort of like rootkits, but generally less sophisticated. They have in common that they subvert the host system for nefarious ends, but vary in their approach. A virus has its own propagation as its major aim; it will generally do this by emailing or IM'ing itself to other people and hoping they blindly execute its code. It may have some villainy in mind once present on a system. Malware is a general term for any kind of hostile code. Adware is any software whose sole purpose is to deliver advertisements to the user. Advertisements are commercial messages you may remember from the pre-Adblock Plus days; adware will make sure the user sees these more often, and may gather information on his internet usage habits to better target its advertising. The idea is that a user frequently exposed to advertisements may change his shopping habits in accordance with the messages to which he is so exposed.
It would be easy to dismiss these structures as pictures artifacts, and jpeg-artifacts comes to mind
Well, they can't possibly be JPEG artefacts. Because scientists work on the uncompressed TIFF files, not on JPEGs at all. JPEGs are only used for the pretty pictures posted on the web for public use as desktop wallpapers. Nobody would dream of using the JPEGs for research purposes. So these guys, being scientists as you tell us, certainly aren't looking at JPEG artefacts, because they were working from the TIFFs.
Impressive. Microevolution has never been so successfully illustrated. I hope the day comes when we can try this with Macroevolution and put that to the test.
Well, once you can give a clear definition of where one ends and the other begins, we can get started. Isn't it like defining 'microwalking' as down to the shops for the newspaper, and 'macrowalking' as to another continent?
2. Couldn't this say $40,000,000 USD (FORTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) to be more dramatic?
And couldn't they tell us the cost in euro? I mean, that's the unit in which the LHC is budgeted. Why convert into some volatile foreign currency? Let us know the actual figure, and if we live outside the eurozone then we'll convert into our own local currency by ourselves, thanks.
In retrospect, getting picked on or even beaten up once in a while is a whole lot more effective at motivating you to grow a spine than any amount of coddling.
Eh. Motivated me at first to stay in the school library at breaktimes, where there were books and computers and stuff, and then later to find a group of other nerds, weirdos and other not-part-of-the-violence-hierarchy folks to hang around with.
And what about all those who don't want to fight, not because they are weak, but because they don't like fighting.
The existence of people like that endangers the whole system whereby respect and status are established by means of violence. Consider: an alpha male in the schoolyard has established his position against all rivals by means of fights. He now becomes aware of a subculture that does not respect him for this - they may fear him, but they don't admire him. These people are called 'nerds' and they admire and respect intellectual accomplishment. Or a large collection of Warhammer 40K figures. Either way, they neither admire nor respect the willingness or ability to engage in physical fights. Indeed, they openly disdain it.
This completely undermines his position! This alpha male demands the respect due to him for being so masculine and violent! And so he expresses himself in the only way he knows how: he beats up nerds until he has established to the satisfaction of his peers that he will not tolerate disrespect from inferiors of zero status, from people who have no interest in violence at all.
Looking back on it from a distance of fifteen years or so it's a fascinating sociological study. Thank fuck I'm no longer living in it.
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No, Nightfall took place in a sextuple system inside a globular cluster, so that when night finally fell the people saw the sky _full_ of stars. They would probably have survived the sight of the few thousand stars in the sky of Earth, but millions gave them a horrible case of Krikkit syndrome.
So, they're pushing on photons? I wonder if this is going to end up equivalent to a photon rocket: wonderful if you're trying to save on reaction mass, terrible if you're trying to save on energy?
What if it's inaccurate post-1960, but spot on pre-1960 and as far back as thermometer records go?
Indomitable pigheadedness, eh? So good of you to provide such a sterling example of what you mean by that. 'Appropriately dealed with'... real classy.
You want to use a netbook as a professional audio workstation?
In such a campaign, who's a civilian? Are informers considered civilians, or can the Resistance shoot them? Are collaborators considered civilians, or can the Resistance intimidate or terrorise them to discourage working with the enemy?
I'm pretty sure the French Resistance did both. So did the IRA.
Well, it's a gnu, which is a large animal also known as a wildebeest.
It's holding a blanket in the manner of Linus from Peanuts. Visual pun, you see: it's a GNU / Linus.
Actually, it does. The BNP have been trying to clean up their image lately; they try not to say anything explicitly racist, at least not in public. They're just concerned about uncontrolled immigration, you know? Oh, and Islam isn't a race so hating Muslims isn't racism. They sound uncannily like a Daily Mail opinion column.
Mind you, you can't call the Mail inconsistent on this; they've been concerned about uncontrolled immigration for decades. Like in 1938, when they were quite outraged about all the stateless Jews from Germany pouring in from every port.
Here's a clue for you. Think of the worst, most awful, evil, appalling vice you possibly can. Now make it worse. Include a goat. And a small child. And two girls. And one cup. Got the mental image? Anonymous enjoys that stuff. They post pics of it, they're jaded about it, they even have a cute bear mascot to celebrate it.
If you want to insult Anonymous, suggest that they prefer it consensual and in the missionary position, for purposes of procreation. That's about the only thing they consider wrong.
I might actually go ahead and fire up a torrent next time I'm bored on a train. Just out of sheer perversity.
I know. You'd have to be a really strange person to think this sort of thing is in any way charming. If it were up to me, I'd moderate all of them down.
It took me a few goes before I realised that was a verb. I was reading it in an Australian accent for some reason.
Some emails were leaked on Friday from the climate research unit at the university of East Anglia. In about 150 megabytes of text, it turned out that in one of the emails, one of the researchers used the word 'trick' to describe some unspecified method of statistical analysis he had used on some dataset, and mentioned that it would 'hide the decline'. Everyone immediately saw that obviously this trick was dishonest and the decline in question was a real decline in temperatures, and it means that the entire field of climate science has been perpetrating a decades-long hoax on the world, and Al Gore should be tried for treason. Because you don't need any kind of context to know exactly what the word 'trick' refers to and what 'decline' is being hidden and why; your pre-existing political beliefs tell you all you should need to know.
That's why articles about climate change can expect to be tagged with such things for quite some time into the future.
So far as I'm aware, the use of nuclear weapons against human beings is something no Socialist state has ever done.
Isn't that a very silly thing to do? Suppose we have a curate's egg of a site, excellent in parts, where the good stuff is tricky to find among a great deal of crap. Suppose we have an easy and reliable means of excising the crap and presenting only the good stuff. Would it not be a pity to deny oneself the good stuff, because of crap that you can eliminate with the mere press of a button?
Although, to be fair, we did follow through on his excellent idea of a League of Nations. Unlike some people.
Nonsense, and I find that very offensive. If you think there are inconsistencies in Star Trek, you clearly haven't watched it carefully enough. While I'm sure you may think you have found an inconsistency or contradiction in the canon, you have to bear in mind multiple alternate and mirror universes, extra adventures between episodes that were not screened, the literary agent hypothesis, and the limitations of 1960s television as a medium. To so bluntly declare Trek inconsistent is an insult to millions of faithful Trekkers worldwide, and is criminal hate speech.
They're sort of like rootkits, but generally less sophisticated. They have in common that they subvert the host system for nefarious ends, but vary in their approach. A virus has its own propagation as its major aim; it will generally do this by emailing or IM'ing itself to other people and hoping they blindly execute its code. It may have some villainy in mind once present on a system. Malware is a general term for any kind of hostile code. Adware is any software whose sole purpose is to deliver advertisements to the user. Advertisements are commercial messages you may remember from the pre-Adblock Plus days; adware will make sure the user sees these more often, and may gather information on his internet usage habits to better target its advertising. The idea is that a user frequently exposed to advertisements may change his shopping habits in accordance with the messages to which he is so exposed.
So now you know.
Well, they can't possibly be JPEG artefacts. Because scientists work on the uncompressed TIFF files, not on JPEGs at all. JPEGs are only used for the pretty pictures posted on the web for public use as desktop wallpapers. Nobody would dream of using the JPEGs for research purposes. So these guys, being scientists as you tell us, certainly aren't looking at JPEG artefacts, because they were working from the TIFFs.
Right?...
Who's the judge of 'sufficiently incompetent'? Whoever it is, he's the one who really runs the country.
Yes, that's right. That's why a 'freeman' was someone you didn't have to pay for his work, whereas a 'slave' was, er...
Well, once you can give a clear definition of where one ends and the other begins, we can get started. Isn't it like defining 'microwalking' as down to the shops for the newspaper, and 'macrowalking' as to another continent?
And couldn't they tell us the cost in euro? I mean, that's the unit in which the LHC is budgeted. Why convert into some volatile foreign currency? Let us know the actual figure, and if we live outside the eurozone then we'll convert into our own local currency by ourselves, thanks.
Eh. Motivated me at first to stay in the school library at breaktimes, where there were books and computers and stuff, and then later to find a group of other nerds, weirdos and other not-part-of-the-violence-hierarchy folks to hang around with.
The existence of people like that endangers the whole system whereby respect and status are established by means of violence. Consider: an alpha male in the schoolyard has established his position against all rivals by means of fights. He now becomes aware of a subculture that does not respect him for this - they may fear him, but they don't admire him. These people are called 'nerds' and they admire and respect intellectual accomplishment. Or a large collection of Warhammer 40K figures. Either way, they neither admire nor respect the willingness or ability to engage in physical fights. Indeed, they openly disdain it.
This completely undermines his position! This alpha male demands the respect due to him for being so masculine and violent! And so he expresses himself in the only way he knows how: he beats up nerds until he has established to the satisfaction of his peers that he will not tolerate disrespect from inferiors of zero status, from people who have no interest in violence at all.
Looking back on it from a distance of fifteen years or so it's a fascinating sociological study. Thank fuck I'm no longer living in it.