Intolerant idealism is mankind's costliest folly (thanks Churchill), no matter if it comes in the form of religion, communism, fascism, or anything else. It leads to the most evil behavior that human beings have ever engaged in.
In recent decades China has been more open and more tolerant (which is to say, not very tolerant at all), but at one point they were executing everybody with even an inkling of an independent thought.
Accepting one form of intolerant idealism over another because you like it's marketing strategy better is a fools game. In the end you will find cold hard brutality of the worst kind no matter which you meekly accept.
You're strategy works to avoid the crushing defeat of leading an entire race only to get curbstomped right at the end by the un-avoidable super weapons and end up in fourth place.
But it is not overall better then simply racing to win. I am always striving to get into first place, blue shell be damned, and I crush anybody that attempts to play Mario Kart with me.
When I hear it come I may slow down to make sure the other front runners get hit with me, but that is all
The reasoning for not sandbagging it in 2nd-3rd place is simple: Despite the ever present threat of the blue shell you are always much more likely to be hit by something fired by the person directly behind you then you are to get hit by a blue shell.
The further back you are, the more likely the person directly behind you has something awesome. If you are in first Mr. 2nd Place is probably working with mushrooms, peels, and green shells. If you are in 3rd place however, the person behind you in 4th likely has red shells or better.
If you go as fast as you can and stretch the field out, you have time to recover when you get hit. But if you bunch things up 1 hit leads to 4 in a row and suddenly you are in last place from getting gang raped.
How about for being the first minority figure to win the highest office of a country in a democratically run election?
We are already so used to a black man being in the white house that the novelty has worn off, but up until the moment he actually won there were plenty of people who may have hoped, but never believed that anybody other than a white man could win the presidency.
His wife is only 5 generations removed from ancestors who were slaves in this country.
50 years ago he wouldn't have been able to use the same drinking fountain as white people.
And today he is our president.
Proving that while racism may always exist, it can be overcome to this level is a pretty damn big accomplishment, IMO.
Around 1996 I was the treasurer for my fraternity. I happened upon the fact that we had been renting the phone in our kitchen for like $12 a month from Ma Bell for as far back as their records went at the time -- 1984.
We had spent at least ~$2000 renting this damn phone, and when I tried to put a stop to it the customer service rep helpfully explained to me that renting it was an awesome deal because if it ever broke they would replace it for free...
I could be wrong, but the only sound I noticed in space were explosions.
Wouldn't a nearby explosion still have a "shockwave"? Not a compressed wall of air like in atmosphere, but at the very least the gases and fragments from the explosion itself would be speeding out.
And when that collided with your space suit, or space shit, wouldn't it create a "sound" inside said space suit/ship?
The muffled sound they gave to the explosions might not be accurate, but if some explodes near enough to you, even in a vacuum, a human is going to hear something.
Part of the reason I switched from Time Warner to AT&T u-verse is Time Warner's constant bullshit fighting with networks (CBS, Big Ten Network).
Good riddance.
Warping space is not impossible. In fact you are doing it right now. And so is the earth, and the moon, and the sun, and gosh, just about everything (everything with mass that is).
The Democratic "majority" in the Senate is possibly the weakest "majority" that there has ever been.
It's really a tie 49-49 with 2 independents that usually side with the Dems.
Add to that extreme fillabusters from the Republicans, and a Republican president that has threatened to veto pretty much every Democratic initiative and you have have a Democratic "majority" in congress that can't get a damn thing done.
The current state of the union is not the fault of a 2 year weak Dem majority in congress, it is largely the fault of the Republican's near complete control from 2000-2006, and the gridlock they've created since.
The problem with 3rd parties is that they all seem to do the same thing when they get to the verge of relevancy:
They blow their wad (both financially and enthusiasm wise) on a hopeless bid for the highest office.
This country would probably be a lot better off today if both Nader and Perot had gone for Senate seats instead (not an endorsement of either of their policies, just rooting for strong alternate parties). Then they each would have had strong voices within the system, and could have leveraged their seats to continue to build up awareness and support for their parties.
Instead they spent a whole bunch of money on failed presidential campaigns, enthusiasm faded and now they and the people that supported them are in the same position they started in, on the outside looking in.
So this story coming out at the same time as a world-wide financial crisis.
Has hollywood finally become reality? Is there some scarred super-villain out there somewhere petting a hairless cat laughing like a maniac as the world falls into economic ruin?
Yea all this does is invalidate video as proof of anything. Now you create a clip of Barack Obama planting a UED in Iraq, or John McCain visiting a gay dance club.
All you need is video of somebody of similar build and you can put anybodies face on it.
There is virtually zero chance the LHC will produce micro-black holes.
Even if it somehow does, they will very likely dissipate in fractions of a second.
Even if they doe form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year.
For frame of reference you have about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body.
So it would take billions of lifetimes (or more) for you to even notice the effects if one were stuck in you.
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Idiotic waste of resources? We aren't the only people on the planet building out our UAV fleet. This sounds like a great anti-UAV weapon.
Should we build a million of these things? Probably not, but having them available just in case is just plain prudent.
Way to sensationalize an asteroid that isn't much bigger then a womprat. If it had hit the Earth, very few people (if any) would have even noticed.
Intolerant idealism is mankind's costliest folly (thanks Churchill), no matter if it comes in the form of religion, communism, fascism, or anything else. It leads to the most evil behavior that human beings have ever engaged in.
In recent decades China has been more open and more tolerant (which is to say, not very tolerant at all), but at one point they were executing everybody with even an inkling of an independent thought.
Accepting one form of intolerant idealism over another because you like it's marketing strategy better is a fools game. In the end you will find cold hard brutality of the worst kind no matter which you meekly accept.
You're strategy works to avoid the crushing defeat of leading an entire race only to get curbstomped right at the end by the un-avoidable super weapons and end up in fourth place.
But it is not overall better then simply racing to win. I am always striving to get into first place, blue shell be damned, and I crush anybody that attempts to play Mario Kart with me.
When I hear it come I may slow down to make sure the other front runners get hit with me, but that is all
The reasoning for not sandbagging it in 2nd-3rd place is simple: Despite the ever present threat of the blue shell you are always much more likely to be hit by something fired by the person directly behind you then you are to get hit by a blue shell.
The further back you are, the more likely the person directly behind you has something awesome. If you are in first Mr. 2nd Place is probably working with mushrooms, peels, and green shells. If you are in 3rd place however, the person behind you in 4th likely has red shells or better.
If you go as fast as you can and stretch the field out, you have time to recover when you get hit. But if you bunch things up 1 hit leads to 4 in a row and suddenly you are in last place from getting gang raped.
How about for being the first minority figure to win the highest office of a country in a democratically run election?
We are already so used to a black man being in the white house that the novelty has worn off, but up until the moment he actually won there were plenty of people who may have hoped, but never believed that anybody other than a white man could win the presidency.
His wife is only 5 generations removed from ancestors who were slaves in this country.
50 years ago he wouldn't have been able to use the same drinking fountain as white people.
And today he is our president.
Proving that while racism may always exist, it can be overcome to this level is a pretty damn big accomplishment, IMO.
You fail at understanding both the 2nd law and evolution.
The Earth is not an isolated system.
Just started watching SG-1 for the first time on Hulu. About mid-way through season 5.
Is there any reason I should I finish out SG-1 before watching this?
Not to rain on your rainbow parade, but any planet that close to its star is likely tidally locked.
So no sunset.
Around 1996 I was the treasurer for my fraternity. I happened upon the fact that we had been renting the phone in our kitchen for like $12 a month from Ma Bell for as far back as their records went at the time -- 1984.
...
We had spent at least ~$2000 renting this damn phone, and when I tried to put a stop to it the customer service rep helpfully explained to me that renting it was an awesome deal because if it ever broke they would replace it for free
Lol, space shit, what a wonderful typo.
I could be wrong, but the only sound I noticed in space were explosions. Wouldn't a nearby explosion still have a "shockwave"? Not a compressed wall of air like in atmosphere, but at the very least the gases and fragments from the explosion itself would be speeding out. And when that collided with your space suit, or space shit, wouldn't it create a "sound" inside said space suit/ship? The muffled sound they gave to the explosions might not be accurate, but if some explodes near enough to you, even in a vacuum, a human is going to hear something.
Facts do have a liberal bias after all.
I have put together a guide for new players.
Here: Darkfall Survival Guide
Uploading my first video to Youtube atm. Will link from the site soon.
Part of the reason I switched from Time Warner to AT&T u-verse is Time Warner's constant bullshit fighting with networks (CBS, Big Ten Network). Good riddance.
The article is slashdotted but it is possible that when this happened there was no solid surface yet to leave traces of this.
Warping space is not impossible. In fact you are doing it right now. And so is the earth, and the moon, and the sun, and gosh, just about everything (everything with mass that is).
In the end this will be a good thing for the internet.
Forcing ISPs to treat all traffic the same, because they can't tell what is what, will be good for net neutrality.
You should get the bandwidth you pay for, regardless of what actually travels over it.
The Democratic "majority" in the Senate is possibly the weakest "majority" that there has ever been.
It's really a tie 49-49 with 2 independents that usually side with the Dems.
Add to that extreme fillabusters from the Republicans, and a Republican president that has threatened to veto pretty much every Democratic initiative and you have have a Democratic "majority" in congress that can't get a damn thing done.
The current state of the union is not the fault of a 2 year weak Dem majority in congress, it is largely the fault of the Republican's near complete control from 2000-2006, and the gridlock they've created since.
The problem with 3rd parties is that they all seem to do the same thing when they get to the verge of relevancy:
They blow their wad (both financially and enthusiasm wise) on a hopeless bid for the highest office.
This country would probably be a lot better off today if both Nader and Perot had gone for Senate seats instead (not an endorsement of either of their policies, just rooting for strong alternate parties). Then they each would have had strong voices within the system, and could have leveraged their seats to continue to build up awareness and support for their parties.
Instead they spent a whole bunch of money on failed presidential campaigns, enthusiasm faded and now they and the people that supported them are in the same position they started in, on the outside looking in.
So this story coming out at the same time as a world-wide financial crisis.
Has hollywood finally become reality? Is there some scarred super-villain out there somewhere petting a hairless cat laughing like a maniac as the world falls into economic ruin?
I'm not married but thanks for the heads up.
I will be sure to keep closer watch on the future Mrs. Gotung
Just wondering if they used a trojan to gain access.
Sneaky Greeks.
Lol IED, not UED.
Yea all this does is invalidate video as proof of anything. Now you create a clip of Barack Obama planting a UED in Iraq, or John McCain visiting a gay dance club.
All you need is video of somebody of similar build and you can put anybodies face on it.
There is virtually zero chance the LHC will produce micro-black holes.
Even if it somehow does, they will very likely dissipate in fractions of a second.
Even if they doe form, and are stable, they will be so small so as to sink to the center of the earth and star devouring it at the alarming pace of 1 atom a year.
For frame of reference you have about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in your body.
So it would take billions of lifetimes (or more) for you to even notice the effects if one were stuck in you.