Land is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Ocean is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Orbital space is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Antartica is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Moon is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Mars is essentially worthless until it is militarized.
Actually, the progression is more like...
One neighbor envied the land of his neighbors, then went over & beat the snot out of him for it.
Bored with that, the entire village spotted the land of thier neighbors, formed a mob and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, an entire town spotted the land of thier neighbors, set up a militia and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, an entire country spotted the land of thier neighbors, formed an army and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, the world spotted space, set up a space program and went "Darn, haven't seen any aliens to beat the snot out of yet..."
Cut all funding from NASA except the bare minimum to continute to gather data from things already launched (and possibly a few relatively low budget projects that are near completion) and pay down the debt for a few years before launching a new and improved NASA in 15-20 year
Gee, I thought that's what they were already doing. Though instead of paying the bloody debt, all the defense contractors went "Oh, oh, Look at we can do with that extra $X Billion in funding!", and see where it's placed us? We lost (or simply forgotten) several important technologies that got us to the moon and now other countries are quickly closing the gap with their own manned excursions in space.
Can you say, "We tripped, fell and bloodied our face a few too many times"?
What if W gets a JS error when he clicks the LAUNCH button?
Well, it would be just the same as if it would've been under Ronnie RAYGUN's administration, him simply remarking "Sorry, I thought it was my alarm clock snooze button..."
Instead of arguing with me, go ask a bunch of parents of teenagers or pre-teens which they think is more likely to happen: Pregnancy or murder.
Pregnancy!
You want to know why I say that? Just like my old church pastor used to sum up his response to all those questions on of lifes problems with a very succinct qoute, "Well, that's because God gave us both a free will AND a sex drive.".
Mind you, a lot of the conservative and religious types (particularly the women) really got ticked off about his reply - because they were trying to deny thinking about it that way. It really didn't sit well well with them, and they did whatever they could to suppress (Or should that be, repress?) than line of thinking. (Let's face it, that is what religion is about anyway - trying to suggest what people should be thinking about.) My pastor, being a matter of fact sort of man, thought it was silly to deny such self evident truths. Because in his opinion, it just lead to worse things.
And that's where I think all this ultra-uptightness about sex being portrayed in games (like GTA:SA) is getting it's legs from. People out there are (vainly) attempting to stop pregnancy (or whatever) by simply denying any thoughts about it!
Sorry, but that doesn't work any better than not thinking about dying staves off one's own eventual death does...
Because on one hand, feats like this allow us to explore places currently unreachable by human beings due to the hostile environment.
But on the other hand, feats like also gives more ammo to twits who claim we'll never need a manned mission to the moon, mars (or any other places like it) ever again...
That they accidently stumbled upon the Governments secret plan to be broadcasting to every passing by Blue tooth headset - "$200 SPEEDING TICKET, pull onto the next off ramp to speak to our polite on duty patrolmen awaiting you there to receive your reciept please."
NASA should recieve a RED GREEN duct tape savings tip of the year award...
Because this sounds just like Red during one of his car repairs, "Uhh, this cordlike thing doesn't look like it needs to be there, I'll just yank it off and charge Old man Sedgewick an extra $5 for the touch up body work."
While Blogs may have changed the way information can be distributed, I don't thing it's changed the way mass media is/will be operating that much. Let's face it, nearly all blogs fall in two separate categories, Personal Blogs and those that are commerical after a fashion.
All the personal blog's have done is create a new way for some individuals to open up yet another window into their lives for others to view it through. Sure, some of those blogs may be boring, uninformative, or otherwise uninteresting in some way. But thats perhaps the norm for many peoples personal lives. And many people will read them just for that purpose, to get a view into other peoples lives, nothing more. Expecting anything else from them would be silly. And this is probably where alot of people are currently expressing disappointment over blogs. Because most personal blogs sort of devolve over time, unless a person is really dedicated to keeping it up to date, and on subject/track over the years. So, from an outsiders point of view, a 'bubble' is seen, where the personal blogs are at one time all the rage, and then seem to slowly die off as the less dedicated people drop out of routine of updating up their blogs. Hence a (percieved) 'Fall of Blogs'.
But the other kind of blogs on the other hand, if their lucky enough to create a more of a grassroots style of communication, or some kind of community involvement, (These are the ones that many people would liken to a journal or maybe a online magazine) those will likely thrive and continue to exist as long as their audience are kept in rapt interest. And there always be community involvement online at some level or another. So for that reason I don't forsee those kind of blogs going away anytime soon. Most likely they'll just morph as new technology comes along, just like the community BBS's of the 80's & 90's did.
Defcon 1
Defcon 2
Defcon 3
Defcon 4
And the president is simply sitting there wondering what the hell just happened?
Guess this means my money saving method works!
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{sarcasm mode on} 1) Don't buy ToEE, Fallout, or Arcanum when they first come out. 2) Wait long enuf for everyone to finish bitching about the game. 3) Pick it up in the dollar store. 4) Less hardware upgrades and less up front cost to purchase, and nearly all the bugs have already been ferreted out - Profit!:)
That's been my point too, EA doesn't make good games...
And when "game" companies (I use the term very loosely here) become Monopoly's, the losers are the Gamers/players/consumers. Because let's face it - crap is crap, no matter how you package it.
Why? Support the studios that make the best games.
Well, *sometimes* that's exactly where the best games get their beginings! Doesn't anyone remember a time when Blizzard software was merely a bit player in the gaming industry?!?
Man, with Mr. Freeman on the Department of Homeland Security's docket, simply disappearing back to MEATSPACE just became a *whole lot* more appealing...
This >IS the reason I stopped recording (& following) many a show.
It usually goes something like this: 1) The show runs at standard times. 2) I record and follow it. The End Result? Some advertising gets viewed. 3) Some idiot TV exec comes up with the A#1 idea of changing the time slot somehow in order to get me to play "follow the leader". 4) Since I have better things to do than play a round of "TV Show Wild Goose" I immediately fob it off, and don't follow the show any further. The End Result? The advertising is NOT seen... 5) (optional) Yet another idiot TV Exec believes that since the audience #'s have dropped through such attrition then decides that the show should be cancelled. 6) (optional) The show comes out on DVD. 7) (optional) I resume watching the show without the impediment of Ad's!
My overall opinion of this tactic? Yet another stupid "marketing" stunt that will waste everybodies time, until certain clueless twits figure out that it's a totally worthless tactic to use with consumers.
"Making more complex locks just makes for more highly skilled thieves, not less thieves."
Basically this is alluding to the fact that good security is not just about making better safes & locks, (because there will always be a thief who will open/crack them), but deciding how to keep the larger portion of the population from profiting off of your "valuable" items.
After Queen Padme turns Anakin's ardent requests for sex down for the umpteenth time, he attempts to use 'the FORCE' and due to his raging male hormone levels, when she blasts him with a friggin laser - he spontaneously catchs fire and jumps into the Emporers daily meglomania booster cocktail that was sitting in the balcony below in order to put himself out, and thus earned himself a life sentence of working for the Emporer in order to just pay for the Emporers' ruined shirt...
What we have here is 2 million internet newbies who recently got a clue! (That they do *not* need to dialup AOL first in order to get on the internet...)
If anything, twitter is the type of person that should not be part of the open source/free software community... We can get rid of this guy and make Slashdot a better place.
I consider/. an open discussion/forum, (feel free to correct me mods!), and therefore, everybody can voice their opinions. (As long as it's not abusive!)
Plus, just so you know, I'd give him points because at least he's man enough to be identified while voicing his opinions. And that my dear friend, is why people who are afraid to post likewise are listed as "Anonymous Coward's".
The main reason why I'm replying here is because I happen to disagree with what you advocate here, is concept of simply getting rid of someone because you don't like something about either their spelling, thier posting style, the way they look (or even smell!), or even thier opinion itself. All of which, in IMHO, are just the wrong reasons to remove someone. A good reason to remove someone is if they are being abusive, and you haven't proven that with your post.
Instead, all you've proven here is that you can't handle an opposing opinion without becoming antagonistic...
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Actually, the progression is more like...
One neighbor envied the land of his neighbors, then went over & beat the snot out of him for it.
Bored with that, the entire village spotted the land of thier neighbors, formed a mob and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, an entire town spotted the land of thier neighbors, set up a militia and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, an entire country spotted the land of thier neighbors, formed an army and went over & beat the snot out of them for it.
Bored with that, the world spotted space, set up a space program and went "Darn, haven't seen any aliens to beat the snot out of yet..."
Gee, I thought that's what they were already doing. Though instead of paying the bloody debt, all the defense contractors went "Oh, oh, Look at we can do with that extra $X Billion in funding!", and see where it's placed us? We lost (or simply forgotten) several important technologies that got us to the moon and now other countries are quickly closing the gap with their own manned excursions in space.
Can you say, "We tripped, fell and bloodied our face a few too many times"?
Well, it would be just the same as if it would've been under Ronnie RAYGUN's administration, him simply remarking "Sorry, I thought it was my alarm clock snooze button..."
Pregnancy!
You want to know why I say that? Just like my old church pastor used to sum up his response to all those questions on of lifes problems with a very succinct qoute, "Well, that's because God gave us both a free will AND a sex drive.".
Mind you, a lot of the conservative and religious types (particularly the women) really got ticked off about his reply - because they were trying to deny thinking about it that way. It really didn't sit well well with them, and they did whatever they could to suppress (Or should that be, repress?) than line of thinking. (Let's face it, that is what religion is about anyway - trying to suggest what people should be thinking about.) My pastor, being a matter of fact sort of man, thought it was silly to deny such self evident truths. Because in his opinion, it just lead to worse things.
And that's where I think all this ultra-uptightness about sex being portrayed in games (like GTA:SA) is getting it's legs from. People out there are (vainly) attempting to stop pregnancy (or whatever) by simply denying any thoughts about it!
Sorry, but that doesn't work any better than not thinking about dying staves off one's own eventual death does...
Because this certainly confirms that windows virus's have a new VISTA to exploit!
Because on one hand, feats like this allow us to explore places currently unreachable by human beings due to the hostile environment.
But on the other hand, feats like also gives more ammo to twits who claim we'll never need a manned mission to the moon, mars (or any other places like it) ever again...
That they accidently stumbled upon the Governments secret plan to be broadcasting to every passing by Blue tooth headset - "$200 SPEEDING TICKET, pull onto the next off ramp to speak to our polite on duty patrolmen awaiting you there to receive your reciept please."
NASA should recieve a RED GREEN duct tape savings tip of the year award...
Because this sounds just like Red during one of his car repairs, "Uhh, this cordlike thing doesn't look like it needs to be there, I'll just yank it off and charge Old man Sedgewick an extra $5 for the touch up body work."
"Oh, Thank God! I won't have to worry about seeing him look like another Pamela Anderson wannabe..."
I'm going to be hissed at in Cockroach-ess by the passing 'motorists' instead of hearing obscenities?
While Blogs may have changed the way information can be distributed, I don't thing it's changed the way mass media is/will be operating that much. Let's face it, nearly all blogs fall in two separate categories, Personal Blogs and those that are commerical after a fashion.
All the personal blog's have done is create a new way for some individuals to open up yet another window into their lives for others to view it through. Sure, some of those blogs may be boring, uninformative, or otherwise uninteresting in some way. But thats perhaps the norm for many peoples personal lives. And many people will read them just for that purpose, to get a view into other peoples lives, nothing more. Expecting anything else from them would be silly. And this is probably where alot of people are currently expressing disappointment over blogs. Because most personal blogs sort of devolve over time, unless a person is really dedicated to keeping it up to date, and on subject/track over the years. So, from an outsiders point of view, a 'bubble' is seen, where the personal blogs are at one time all the rage, and then seem to slowly die off as the less dedicated people drop out of routine of updating up their blogs. Hence a (percieved) 'Fall of Blogs'.
But the other kind of blogs on the other hand, if their lucky enough to create a more of a grassroots style of communication, or some kind of community involvement, (These are the ones that many people would liken to a journal or maybe a online magazine) those will likely thrive and continue to exist as long as their audience are kept in rapt interest. And there always be community involvement online at some level or another. So for that reason I don't forsee those kind of blogs going away anytime soon. Most likely they'll just morph as new technology comes along, just like the community BBS's of the 80's & 90's did.
Oh, do you mean like -
Defcon 1
Defcon 2
Defcon 3
Defcon 4
And the president is simply sitting there wondering what the hell just happened?
{sarcasm mode on} :)
1) Don't buy ToEE, Fallout, or Arcanum when they first come out.
2) Wait long enuf for everyone to finish bitching about the game.
3) Pick it up in the dollar store.
4) Less hardware upgrades and less up front cost to purchase, and nearly all the bugs have already been ferreted out - Profit!
{sarcasm mode off}
That's been my point too, EA doesn't make good games...
And when "game" companies (I use the term very loosely here) become Monopoly's, the losers are the Gamers/players/consumers. Because let's face it - crap is crap, no matter how you package it.
Well, *sometimes* that's exactly where the best games get their beginings! Doesn't anyone remember a time when Blizzard software was merely a bit player in the gaming industry?!?
Man, with Mr. Freeman on the Department of Homeland Security's docket, simply disappearing back to MEATSPACE just became a *whole lot* more appealing...
It was trying to be too B5ish, which I hated like all the other poorly lit daytime soap operas, with crap for writing...
And no, I didn't think "Babbleing on five" was sci fi either - come on, give me a break!
I can just see MPAA's line of thinking - "Let's all conspire to change the dreaded '666' to a '999' in everyone's minds, just for a laugh..."
This >IS the reason I stopped recording (& following) many a show.
It usually goes something like this:
1) The show runs at standard times.
2) I record and follow it. The End Result? Some advertising gets viewed.
3) Some idiot TV exec comes up with the A#1 idea of changing the time slot somehow in order to get me to play "follow the leader".
4) Since I have better things to do than play a round of "TV Show Wild Goose" I immediately fob it off, and don't follow the show any further. The End Result? The advertising is NOT seen...
5) (optional) Yet another idiot TV Exec believes that since the audience #'s have dropped through such attrition then decides that the show should be cancelled.
6) (optional) The show comes out on DVD.
7) (optional) I resume watching the show without the impediment of Ad's!
My overall opinion of this tactic? Yet another stupid "marketing" stunt that will waste everybodies time, until certain clueless twits figure out that it's a totally worthless tactic to use with consumers.
About locks & thieves?
"Making more complex locks just makes for more highly skilled thieves, not less thieves."
Basically this is alluding to the fact that good security is not just about making better safes & locks, (because there will always be a thief who will open/crack them), but deciding how to keep the larger portion of the population from profiting off of your "valuable" items.
After Queen Padme turns Anakin's ardent requests for sex down for the umpteenth time, he attempts to use 'the FORCE' and due to his raging male hormone levels, when she blasts him with a friggin laser - he spontaneously catchs fire and jumps into the Emporers daily meglomania booster cocktail that was sitting in the balcony below in order to put himself out, and thus earned himself a life sentence of working for the Emporer in order to just pay for the Emporers' ruined shirt...
What we have here is 2 million internet newbies who recently got a clue! (That they do *not* need to dialup AOL first in order to get on the internet...)
I consider /. an open discussion/forum, (feel free to correct me mods!), and therefore, everybody can voice their opinions. (As long as it's not abusive!)
Plus, just so you know, I'd give him points because at least he's man enough to be identified while voicing his opinions. And that my dear friend, is why people who are afraid to post likewise are listed as "Anonymous Coward's".
The main reason why I'm replying here is because I happen to disagree with what you advocate here, is concept of simply getting rid of someone because you don't like something about either their spelling, thier posting style, the way they look (or even smell!), or even thier opinion itself. All of which, in IMHO, are just the wrong reasons to remove someone. A good reason to remove someone is if they are being abusive, and you haven't proven that with your post.
Instead, all you've proven here is that you can't handle an opposing opinion without becoming antagonistic...
"Still C****ed Out".
"Ok Mr. Ballmer, please step away from whatever glue you've been sniffing." About says it all here!