I don't know about the security where you are, but where I work those damned alarms never work. There are several other stores in the same complex, and everyone's tags set off the alarms in all the other stores, even if they've been deactivated for the original seller. We don't trust them at all. We watch actual people (you know, with cameras) to see if they're stealing things. And we catch professionals all the time... which could support your argument, I suppose, if they expect our store to act like others do.
You'd be better off to leave the foil at home and deal with some temporary embarrassment. Wrapping articles in aluminum foil in an attempt to defeat EAS surveillance is using a tool to help you disable an anti-theft device, and is a felony (Burglary).
No, he was NOT being a good kid... he was an angry, highly intelligent person, who believed that he had been set up to fail at the last, betrayed yet again by the adults whom he knew he could never trust. He believed that he was performing his graduation excercise from Command School, and that he had been given an impossible test, so he created a new victory condition on his own (outside the box). The only child-warrior who figured out that it was all real before they were told was Bean, but you don't know that until much later in the series.
From some things I've read, the French and British didn't really expect much to come of their war with Germany. It was to be a pro forma action in support of an ally they didn't really care that much about.
Hitler, in their eyes, was supposed to take Poland and start tangling with Russia, which was the "big enemy" as far as Nazi rhetoric was concerned. Meanwhile the Western Europeans were supposed to sit it out while the totalitarians killed each other off. Churchill was against this, but he wasn't in a position of real power until too late to affect the outcome.
Hitler obviously had other plans, however, and the French reaped what they sowed at Versailles, and had continuted to sow in their callous sacrifice of the Sudatenland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and, effectively, Poland as well.
I'm fairly certain that Space.com has had a couple recent stories to the effect that some organic molecules in fact could survive hard vacuum, if they were buried and sealed inside a meteorite. I think that high-energy ionizing radiation would be the most limiting factor to survival of any hypothetical DNA in these rocks. IIRC, there was even mention that they could be protected from the heat of reentry under the right conditions.
It's, oh, say... 50 years from now. You're a soldier, say a blue-helmet, supposed to be keeping the peace in some crappy country that's chock-full of gang lords and private armies. You're on patrol with your partner.
Suddenly, a crack and your buddy is down, choking on his own blood. You take cover behind whatever is available, try to figure out where the fire is coming from.
Another shot, and your Intelligent Rifle is hit, damaged beyond repair. Shit.
Luckily, the rifle dropped by your buddy is close. You grab it, jam your thumb into the stock's biometric window. No response. Damn! Covered with dust again, frickin' dirt... Still cowering, hoping you're covered, you wipe the window and try again.
"BZZZZZ... User's Smart Card does not match profile. Please ensure that you are using the proper weapon."
You jab the control button to force the gun to authorize a new user, but it's too late. You just got killed by a rifle made in your great-grandfather's day.
I think some militaries might have reservations about a few of the "features" on these guns. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
if you're Blizzard, you can get away with making incremental changes to your games...
I don't know about you, but even though the gameplay was similar to Warcraft II, I thought the story in the single player campaign of Warcraft 3 was worth what I paid right there... then I get the bonus of getting my butt kicked on the Battle.net for no additional charge!
Tycho over at Penny Arcade got a copy of the game in his grubby mitts about two weeks ago. His comments were positive, with the stipulation that information overload is a problem at first.
CFC's really aren't all that good at producing a greenhouse effect, are they? It's my understanding that their major ability is to convert Ozone (O3) into diatomic Oxygen (O2), which is bad for our UV-shielding Ozone layer, but doesn't contibute to the warming of the atmosphere. If I have it wrong, let me know.
Wouldn't a spectometer pick up the spectra of the CO2 in Mars' atmosphere? I mean I know it's not real a real dense atmosphere, but it could interfere with the reading.
But will it actually do any good? Washington State has an anti-spam law and it hasn't stopped most people... althought I did hear of one guy who successfully sued using it.
At first your comment made no sense to me, but as I thought a bit realized it would be cool to bust into the middle of a SIMs pool party with an Orc Blademaster and just go to TOWN.
...at what your stomach can take. I spent time on a ship in the Persian Gulf and there were guys who could drink milk that had been at 70+ degrees F for days. I couldn't bear to touch the stuff, myself.
Aren't I living in the real world? Doesn't it suck that reality doesn't conform to my juvenile wishes?
Go ahead and deny yourself the pleasure of a fine game series but kindly let everyone else make that decision on their own, thank you.
Because MS has enormous market share in PC titles already; they're trying VERY HARD to muscle out the competition in the console industry... going as far as selling Xboxes at what would be a ruinous loss for most other companies. They know they've got people out there who are big into the Blizzard RTS series... if they can force even a fraction of them to get an Xbox to play a sequel of a beloved game, don't you think they'd do it? (I can't afford any console now, and won't be able to for some time, most likely.)
Are all the states involved going to create Internet Taxation Departments to waste all the new money they'll make with these tax revenues or will they be able to waste the money with the current level of corruption and graft?
Your science is a little off... if the magma near the surface is under pressure, it's under pressure in ALL directions... pressure isn't like gravity, it doesn't act in only one direction. If you had magma that was hot enough to be fluid and you opened a path to lesser pressure, it would take that path just as any other pressurized fluid would. However I believe that the article states that the magma in question has cooled quite a bit so that may not be an issue.
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I don't know about the security where you are, but where I work those damned alarms never work. There are several other stores in the same complex, and everyone's tags set off the alarms in all the other stores, even if they've been deactivated for the original seller. We don't trust them at all. We watch actual people (you know, with cameras) to see if they're stealing things. And we catch professionals all the time... which could support your argument, I suppose, if they expect our store to act like others do.
You'd be better off to leave the foil at home and deal with some temporary embarrassment. Wrapping articles in aluminum foil in an attempt to defeat EAS surveillance is using a tool to help you disable an anti-theft device, and is a felony (Burglary).
I agree with your comment except for the "tight production schedule" bit.
Hitler, in their eyes, was supposed to take Poland and start tangling with Russia, which was the "big enemy" as far as Nazi rhetoric was concerned. Meanwhile the Western Europeans were supposed to sit it out while the totalitarians killed each other off. Churchill was against this, but he wasn't in a position of real power until too late to affect the outcome.
Hitler obviously had other plans, however, and the French reaped what they sowed at Versailles, and had continuted to sow in their callous sacrifice of the Sudatenland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and, effectively, Poland as well.
"Weird, wild stuff," to quote Johnny Carson.
It's, oh, say... 50 years from now. You're a soldier, say a blue-helmet, supposed to be keeping the peace in some crappy country that's chock-full of gang lords and private armies. You're on patrol with your partner.
Suddenly, a crack and your buddy is down, choking on his own blood. You take cover behind whatever is available, try to figure out where the fire is coming from.
Another shot, and your Intelligent Rifle is hit, damaged beyond repair. Shit.
Luckily, the rifle dropped by your buddy is close. You grab it, jam your thumb into the stock's biometric window. No response. Damn! Covered with dust again, frickin' dirt... Still cowering, hoping you're covered, you wipe the window and try again.
"BZZZZZ... User's Smart Card does not match profile. Please ensure that you are using the proper weapon."
You jab the control button to force the gun to authorize a new user, but it's too late. You just got killed by a rifle made in your great-grandfather's day.
I think some militaries might have reservations about a few of the "features" on these guns. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I don't know about you, but even though the gameplay was similar to Warcraft II, I thought the story in the single player campaign of Warcraft 3 was worth what I paid right there... then I get the bonus of getting my butt kicked on the Battle.net for no additional charge!
Tycho over at Penny Arcade got a copy of the game in his grubby mitts about two weeks ago. His comments were positive, with the stipulation that information overload is a problem at first.
CFC's really aren't all that good at producing a greenhouse effect, are they? It's my understanding that their major ability is to convert Ozone (O3) into diatomic Oxygen (O2), which is bad for our UV-shielding Ozone layer, but doesn't contibute to the warming of the atmosphere. If I have it wrong, let me know.
The day you figure out how to breathe CO2 at a microscopic parital pressure without undergoing a very messy death, let us know.
Wouldn't a spectometer pick up the spectra of the CO2 in Mars' atmosphere? I mean I know it's not real a real dense atmosphere, but it could interfere with the reading.
But will it actually do any good? Washington State has an anti-spam law and it hasn't stopped most people... althought I did hear of one guy who successfully sued using it.
At first your comment made no sense to me, but as I thought a bit realized it would be cool to bust into the middle of a SIMs pool party with an Orc Blademaster and just go to TOWN.
...Will be Bill Gates' mansion, because he's the only person who'll be able to afford to own a house out here!
...at what your stomach can take. I spent time on a ship in the Persian Gulf and there were guys who could drink milk that had been at 70+ degrees F for days. I couldn't bear to touch the stuff, myself.
You make a good point. I concede the argument.
From the article and the pics, I'd say it's underwater only.
Aren't I living in the real world? Doesn't it suck that reality doesn't conform to my juvenile wishes? Go ahead and deny yourself the pleasure of a fine game series but kindly let everyone else make that decision on their own, thank you.
Because MS has enormous market share in PC titles already; they're trying VERY HARD to muscle out the competition in the console industry... going as far as selling Xboxes at what would be a ruinous loss for most other companies. They know they've got people out there who are big into the Blizzard RTS series... if they can force even a fraction of them to get an Xbox to play a sequel of a beloved game, don't you think they'd do it? (I can't afford any console now, and won't be able to for some time, most likely.)
There goes any chance of my ever playing StarCraft 2 on the PC... what a gyp.
Are all the states involved going to create Internet Taxation Departments to waste all the new money they'll make with these tax revenues or will they be able to waste the money with the current level of corruption and graft?
Have you ever BEEN to the Yakima Valley? Look before you leap, man, look before you leap.
Your science is a little off... if the magma near the surface is under pressure, it's under pressure in ALL directions... pressure isn't like gravity, it doesn't act in only one direction. If you had magma that was hot enough to be fluid and you opened a path to lesser pressure, it would take that path just as any other pressurized fluid would. However I believe that the article states that the magma in question has cooled quite a bit so that may not be an issue.