Personally I belive there will always be room for printed books, I'll continue to buy them until there are no more trees. They fill a need that an e-book and some kinda of e-book reader won't ever be able to fill.
So to sum that up; You can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
By law (utlänningslagen, also possibly various international conventions) Sweden can't extradite him, or anyone else, to the USA, or any country where, if he is eligible for or risks the death penelty.
I'm sure they'll find some legal wiggle room for it tho if they have to, just like they do for other things they "need" to get done, but I would expect somewhat of an outcry if it happened.
... or come to think of it. Could you even complete it? I recall you kissed the princess and then it restarted again, like so many arcade games. But I could be wrong. It was so many years ago now.
Has anyone here ever completed Ghost and Goblins or its hellish kid brother Ghouls and Ghosts? Or even had the patience to make it through the second, or first stage?
Arcade vesion: I'm sure someone has, possibly, perhaps. Not me tho. I got past the graveyard, jumped over the little moving swamp squares (and fell down and died more often then not). A few times I defeated the first "boss" and got into the next zone. I never got past that. This all in all probably cost more then a new game does for any home system. But even tho it sucked hard in that regard, completion wise, I never really minded it since I always enjoyed playing real arcades.
Home system version (Spectrum, C64, Amiga): Yes. But only thru cheating and massive amounts of cursing!
That is the thing; All things can't be replaced while some can. You made some fine examples of things that most likely can't be replaced. Lets not totally rule it out tho, a solution could possibly be found even tho it looks unlikely at the moment. But in a potential shortage you have to prioritize; make IV kits or make condoms. I'd rather spend that oil then making IV kits.
We also most likely waste A LOT of plastic; like do we actually need to wrap every single item, in some cases two or three layers; first the outer box, then a bag inside the box and then individual per item inside the bag inside the box inside the plastic shrink wrap.
Do they really need to shrink wrap my newspapers (or every magazine on the planet for that matter). Sure they get wet if it rains, annoying but hardly the end of the world.
I'm sure one could figure out a lot of waste that might be convenient now but really not needed. That is the plastic you could then use to make things we actually do need.
So instead making condoms out of oil they'll start to (ok they already are) make them out of animal intestines again. Instead of using plast boxes we'll start to use glass containers. Some things will probably be a lot harder to replace tho but it's not the end of the world. Possibly the end of the world as we know it, but then that should have happened quite a few times already durring human civilization.
It might very well slam on the breaks, but the car won't and can't alter the laws of physics. Deceleration takes time so you might still get run over. I don't see how they could possibly prevent something like your scenario. Unless they make the speed limit 1 km/h or whatever speed you can more or less instantly stop at without causing harm or death.
Not really. The only thing Sweden learned was that it's hard to try and conquere half of Europe when you don't have the population required to sustain an army large enough for it. The country might be "large" in size but it's quite small in population. If Sweden had been smart they should have stopped with Norway, Finland, the baltics, northern Poland and northern Germany, but apparently that wasn't enough. That plus they made the mother of all misstakes; a winter war vs Russia. The "empire" just went downhill after that. Winter wars vs Russia just never ends well and yet every other European power tried it to afterwards and failed just as horribly.
Beyond lots of other reasons such as the state of the roman empire at that time or our current godlike technology (compared to them) there might be a slight issue of logistics here, conquering the world on foot/horse vs parking the fifth fleet outside someones country.
Not so sure, there is always the "what the heck is this thing..." **accessing data** "oh it's this bollocks.. nevermind...", some period of time passes and you come back to and repeat this procedure again.
So they (the chinese) want to do IQ tests, big deal. I guess it's just the way they do things over there. I'm fine with that since I'm good at seeing patterns and filling in missing numbers. But that and $5 gets me a burger at McWhatever.
But here in the "west" we are now scared of IQ for some reason, I guess we dont want to hurt the feelings of people that do badly, so instead we do personality tests such as variations of Myers-Briggs instead. I can't belive I'm the only person forced to fill in a few of those as you have applied for various jobs. I have been given these for the last two or three jobs I had and applied for. Your basic "rate yourself on a scale bollocks" tests and then we (me and the HR queen) talk abit about it later on. So it's this instead of "complete the following sequence", "fill in the missing gaps" or "how many squares are there in this picture".
Are personality tests really that much or even better then some old fashion IQ test (a very diluted term)? I think the HR department just wants a piece of paper that you didn't send them that they can somehow use to quantify things into a little number.
She scored connections with people in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIO of the NSA, an intelligence director for the U.S. Marines, a chief of staff for the U.S. House of Representatives, and several Pentagon and DoD employees. The profiles also attracted defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
What the F*** are these people even doing on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter anyway? Is the CIO of the NSA looking for a new spy job or what?
Just another indicator that "social networking" sites are complete bollocks and that (stupid) users (are everywhere and) will click on just about everything. "Friend? Sure.. Whatever... CLICK"... and if it is a porn model emo goth chick there will be even more clicks.
They are all giant douches, is there really a need to find out if one is a bigger one then the other? Have we really resorted to just picking the lesser douche?
But to invoke copyright laws to hide past campaign slogans and stuff does indeed score lots of douche points on the douche-o-meter. On the other hand to dig up old things and use them in the here and now as "proof" of something is a fairly big douche move to.
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anonymouscoward.xxx, what exactlly will your page be sporting? blurred out faces? people doing it with masks on?
Personally I belive there will always be room for printed books, I'll continue to buy them until there are no more trees. They fill a need that an e-book and some kinda of e-book reader won't ever be able to fill.
So to sum that up; You can have my books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
NASA as Law Enforcement; If they had a rendition program they could really start using that "In space nobody can hear you scream" tag line again.
I wonder what their badge looks like .. a giant golden rocket?
Good news everybody! We now know the date when hell will freeze over.
By law (utlänningslagen, also possibly various international conventions) Sweden can't extradite him, or anyone else, to the USA, or any country where, if he is eligible for or risks the death penelty.
I'm sure they'll find some legal wiggle room for it tho if they have to, just like they do for other things they "need" to get done, but I would expect somewhat of an outcry if it happened.
... or come to think of it. Could you even complete it? I recall you kissed the princess and then it restarted again, like so many arcade games. But I could be wrong. It was so many years ago now.
Has anyone here ever completed Ghost and Goblins or its hellish kid brother Ghouls and Ghosts? Or even had the patience to make it through the second, or first stage?
Arcade vesion: I'm sure someone has, possibly, perhaps. Not me tho. I got past the graveyard, jumped over the little moving swamp squares (and fell down and died more often then not). A few times I defeated the first "boss" and got into the next zone. I never got past that. This all in all probably cost more then a new game does for any home system. But even tho it sucked hard in that regard, completion wise, I never really minded it since I always enjoyed playing real arcades.
Home system version (Spectrum, C64, Amiga): Yes. But only thru cheating and massive amounts of cursing!
mmmm ... virus nostaliga. Wonderful SCA reference you manage to squeeze in there.
That is the thing; All things can't be replaced while some can. You made some fine examples of things that most likely can't be replaced. Lets not totally rule it out tho, a solution could possibly be found even tho it looks unlikely at the moment. But in a potential shortage you have to prioritize; make IV kits or make condoms. I'd rather spend that oil then making IV kits.
We also most likely waste A LOT of plastic; like do we actually need to wrap every single item, in some cases two or three layers; first the outer box, then a bag inside the box and then individual per item inside the bag inside the box inside the plastic shrink wrap.
Do they really need to shrink wrap my newspapers (or every magazine on the planet for that matter). Sure they get wet if it rains, annoying but hardly the end of the world.
I'm sure one could figure out a lot of waste that might be convenient now but really not needed. That is the plastic you could then use to make things we actually do need.
So instead making condoms out of oil they'll start to (ok they already are) make them out of animal intestines again. Instead of using plast boxes we'll start to use glass containers. Some things will probably be a lot harder to replace tho but it's not the end of the world. Possibly the end of the world as we know it, but then that should have happened quite a few times already durring human civilization.
Don't people like him get sent to "Club Fed" and not your standard drop the soap prison.
Grub! I am your father!
... and the bulk of the once that do create something create nothing of lasting worth, most likely.
It might very well slam on the breaks, but the car won't and can't alter the laws of physics. Deceleration takes time so you might still get run over. I don't see how they could possibly prevent something like your scenario. Unless they make the speed limit 1 km/h or whatever speed you can more or less instantly stop at without causing harm or death.
Zero divided by anything is infinity
Perhaps in bizzarro-world it is, but here in our universe zero divided by anything is still zero.
Example; zero cookies divided among 5 people is ... zero cookies for each person. There is no infinity of cookies being created here ...
Do they taste like chicken?
According to them it was probably the entire world, since the rest was just barbarians.
Not really. The only thing Sweden learned was that it's hard to try and conquere half of Europe when you don't have the population required to sustain an army large enough for it. The country might be "large" in size but it's quite small in population. If Sweden had been smart they should have stopped with Norway, Finland, the baltics, northern Poland and northern Germany, but apparently that wasn't enough. That plus they made the mother of all misstakes; a winter war vs Russia. The "empire" just went downhill after that. Winter wars vs Russia just never ends well and yet every other European power tried it to afterwards and failed just as horribly.
Beyond lots of other reasons such as the state of the roman empire at that time or our current godlike technology (compared to them) there might be a slight issue of logistics here, conquering the world on foot/horse vs parking the fifth fleet outside someones country.
Not so sure, there is always the "what the heck is this thing ..." **accessing data** "oh it's this bollocks .. nevermind ...", some period of time passes and you come back to and repeat this procedure again.
Cause muppets don't get paid?
So they (the chinese) want to do IQ tests, big deal. I guess it's just the way they do things over there. I'm fine with that since I'm good at seeing patterns and filling in missing numbers. But that and $5 gets me a burger at McWhatever.
But here in the "west" we are now scared of IQ for some reason, I guess we dont want to hurt the feelings of people that do badly, so instead we do personality tests such as variations of Myers-Briggs instead. I can't belive I'm the only person forced to fill in a few of those as you have applied for various jobs. I have been given these for the last two or three jobs I had and applied for. Your basic "rate yourself on a scale bollocks" tests and then we (me and the HR queen) talk abit about it later on. So it's this instead of "complete the following sequence", "fill in the missing gaps" or "how many squares are there in this picture".
Are personality tests really that much or even better then some old fashion IQ test (a very diluted term)? I think the HR department just wants a piece of paper that you didn't send them that they can somehow use to quantify things into a little number.
She scored connections with people in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIO of the NSA, an intelligence director for the U.S. Marines, a chief of staff for the U.S. House of Representatives, and several Pentagon and DoD employees. The profiles also attracted defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
What the F*** are these people even doing on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter anyway? Is the CIO of the NSA looking for a new spy job or what?
Just another indicator that "social networking" sites are complete bollocks and that (stupid) users (are everywhere and) will click on just about everything. "Friend? Sure .. Whatever ... CLICK" ... and if it is a porn model emo goth chick there will be even more clicks.
They are all giant douches, is there really a need to find out if one is a bigger one then the other? Have we really resorted to just picking the lesser douche?
But to invoke copyright laws to hide past campaign slogans and stuff does indeed score lots of douche points on the douche-o-meter. On the other hand to dig up old things and use them in the here and now as "proof" of something is a fairly big douche move to.