Good point... but the range of motion of them was very limited, I think. (I didn't experiment with them all that much.) They did have to convert from straight train to curved train... but they didn't have to interact with the environment like a drivable vehicle would. (They only needed one turning radius, no jumps, limited effect of collisions, no backing up....)
I think that drivable flexible vehicles would be a separate challenge. Not that it'd be impossible, but I suspect they didn't code the engine for it, or else they'd've used it somewhere...
Except that it never occurs with a trailer attached, and you can't hitch a trailer to one. The original poster was correct, no tractor/trailer rigs occur in GTA. I suspect the game engine can't display flexible vehicles as a trailer would require.
Possibly. After watching Highlander II, after some argument a group of friends and I decided that the director must have actually seen the first movie, as the odds would be very low that he'd get absolutely everything wrong by sheer chance.
The same logic seems to apply to Starship Troopers.
Marvel Comics was the first of the mainstream comic labels to buck the Comics Code Authority.
True. They did so in 1971 in Amazing Spider-Man 96-98, to tell a story which depicted drug use (explicitly forbidden by the Code) in order to show very negative consequences to the users. To go on-topic, Stan Lee was approached by the National Department of Health requesting that he write such a story. Everyone sane pretty much agreed that this was reasonable, and the whole thing actually led to revising the code. Amazing Spider-Man returned to being under code after that storyline ended. Shortly before that, DC comics had also done a drug use storyline in Green Lantern 85-86, but that had been edited and narrowly approved by the Code.
The first mainstream company comic book to abandon the code indefinitely was Saga of the Swamp Thing starting with issue #29 back in 1984.
I think the Nick Fury bit is a recent publicity stunt by Marvel, if there's an earlier example I'm not aware of let me know.
"an unbiased review of a the most important book ever to be written about the subject of comic books, or any subject for that matter."
From the review, this book appears to be about the comic book industry, not the comic books themselves.
The "most important book ever to be written about the subject of comic books" is Understanding Comics.
It's in comic book (more accurately, a graphic novel (even more accurately, graphic nonfiction)) form, which is the right medium to actually describe the craft.
If we all lined up in neat lines and fought on a clear plain, then yes, you're right, the US military would defeat the US nominal militia.
On the other hand, the US Military has nowhere near enough strength to hold(in military terms) the United States if the bulk of US citizens became openly hostile to it. (Holding a hostile US would be much, much more difficult than Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq...) This is in large part due to the fact that so much of the US populace is armed. This scenario is more relevant than the "Who'd win on a battlefield if we all lined up" question.
And people who care about civil liberties in general.
And people who care about the erosion of the 4th amendment through 'anti-drug' property confiscation and presumption of guilt laws.
And people who don't like the organized crime that prohibition encourages and indirectly finances.
And people who don't want to support the huge numbers people in jail for pot 'offenses'.
And people who don't want to support the huge amount of law inforcement and judiciary dedicated to pot per^h^hrosecution.
Thankfully, since California doesn't have any crime or any budgetary problems, we should just ignore the issue and continue throwing massive amounts of money into the bottomless pit of the 'drug war'. Right?
Even on slashdot, I suspect that most people would agree that pirate CD sales (i.e. making illegal copies of CDs which look like the commercial product and selling them for a profit as if they were authentic CDs)are something music companies are justified in prosecuting.
The copying and use without profit over peer-to-peer networks is the grey area, and one which the true pirates (those who mass-produce and sell as if it were an authentic product) mostly don't need or use, as they'd need a copy of the authentic packaging anyhow.
Unlike users of peer-to peer networks, there's a good chance people buying authentic-looking pirate CDs marketed as authentic at near retail price would have bought the real thing in the absence of the counterfeit.
2. In comparisons. Comparisons usually follow than or as:[snip]
He is taller than I (am tall).[snip]
NOT: He is taller than me.
(Would you say, "than me am tall"?)
The sentence, "Paul loves pizza more than me (do)." is incorrect, it should be:
"Paul loves pizza more than I (do)." The word "do" may be omitted.
Hope this helps. Have a nice day.
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If you had actually checked your facts before spouting off, you'd know that the second name Humphrey Davy gave Al was "Aluminum", that IUPAC didn't define any spelling of Al until 1990, and that "Aluminum" is currently considered an acceptable variant spelling for that element by IUPAC. Yes, that spelling has always been used by IUPAC... for the last 13 years.
Oh, and common use in the late 1800s/early 1900s USA was "Aluminum", which was the real reason for the official change by US the chemists, not "contrariness", though it is true that the US was quite unhappy with Europe in this period.
(you know, sodium, potassium, etc. - gee, there doesn't seem to be any others that end in -num)
You mean like Platinum or Molybdenum or Lanthanum? (Or Stannum, though for IUPAC that's an alternate name for Tin, not the preferred name.) There are more -nium endings than -num, but -num is certainly far from unprecedented.
The real fault for the confusion lies with Davy. If he'd chosen a spelling and stuck to it, whatever it was would have been used by everyone. For example, Lanthanum was named in 1839, but the discoverer chose a single spelling and stuck with it- so everyone agrees on that spelling.
I do find it strange that you venerate to the American Geophysical Union with such glowing praise, yet denegrate the Geological Society of America, which is older and quite well-respected. That's their magazine, which publishes one article a month on an invitation-only basis.
Setting aside both Nature and the monthly news magazine for the Geological Society of America, if you don't think that Physical Review Letters (which is, of course, a peer reviewed journal) is a "real science journal" then your definition of such has no relationship to the real world. I guess you should stick to your 'position statements'.
I'm still waiting for evidence that this was produced, as you claim, by 'the conservative think-tank sponsored "studies."' Or does reality not support your paranoid delusions?
But catching an atom in the act of bonding would be quite difficult.
Yes, chemical reactions occur very quickly, but there are ways of detecting them- a recent nobel prize was awarded for femtosecond spectroscopy using pulsed lasers. (a femtosecond is 10^-15 seconds)
Science used to "know" the world was flat. They used to "know" that the sun revolved around the earth, and that the human heart worked just like a furnace.
When was this? The ancient greeks, and indeed all ancient cultures with seafarers, knew the world was round. In fact, they measured its diameter to within a few percent. They also debated a heliocentric theory, they didn't "know" it, they argued about it- and got it wrong, as it turns out.
I'll second a recommendation Banff and Jasper, and strongly recommend getting out of the vehicle and going on mountain hikes and scrambles in either area. For that matter, there are nice downhill ski resorts and beautiful cross-country resorts if you're there in the winter. *
On the other hand, I feel I must point out that they're both in Alberta. Not all that far from Calgary and Edmonton, respectively.
*- note that in Alberta winter runs roughly from November through April. With lots of randomness- it snowed once in August in Calgary while I was there... and there was also a whole week in January with highs in the positive double digits! (in Celcius, of course)
Are there Spanish public schools in the southern US?
I'm not certain about the southern US, but depending on how you define "Spanish public schools" there are some in the northern US, less than 300km from Canada.
This is somewhat controversial, and is only for the first few years of schooling, but in some elementary schools some students are taught excusively in spanish for a few years. (That's what "Emerson classrooms encompass both English and Spanish instruction with many bilingual students transitioning to English in the intermediate grades." means.)
The USA has no official language, primarily because of the anti-English sentiment among the founding fathers (for obvious reasons.)
It's been proposed a few times over the years, but hasn't been implemented as English is de facto if not de jure the language of the US, and as it would require a constitutional amendment.
I don't see how the writings of a former Army Lieutenant Colonel and West Point instructor, on the subject of military history, quite qualifies as a "rant site".
Your own citation indicates that during World War II S.L.A. Marshall was a Major. This convenient inflation in rank indicates Grossman is either grossly incompetant with details or is willing to lie with the intent to decieve to make his own points sound better. Not a good sign. On the other hand, you gave me enough keywords to do a better search myself.
Perhaps "rant site" was a poor choince of words on my part, although "killology" does seem deliberately sensationalistic. The basic problem I have with the style of that site is that it's intendedtosellthings. That last seems to be a pretty full speaking calendar for a "West Point Instructor". Perhaps a better request would have been for a non-commercial citation.
As to what actual West Point instructors had to say about S.L.A. Marshall, I was able to find a Journal reference:
I largely agree with Garland's comments regarding Marshall's suspect methodology. I, my peers and fellow West Point instructors are fully aware of recent literature, appearing in a variety of forums, that effectively debunks Marshall's methodology. I agree that Marshall's data were not properly obtained in the scientific sense. Garland should rest knowing that US Military Academy cadets are not required to spout Men Against Fire dogma before graduating.
MAJ Kelly C. Jordan, USA, 2d Infantry Division,Republic of Korea from the letters section of the journal Military Review
Here's another piece on S.L.A. Marshall. He was a journalist by trade, drafted during WW II, who generated sensationalist, non-scientific stories which caught popular imagination. He was not a Brigadier General with a team of researchers during WW II.
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I'm glad to hear he's still getting work.
It was the irreproducability of the alleged results that meant that there wasn't a phenomenon worthy of further investigation.
I think that drivable flexible vehicles would be a separate challenge. Not that it'd be impossible, but I suspect they didn't code the engine for it, or else they'd've used it somewhere...
Except that it never occurs with a trailer attached, and you can't hitch a trailer to one. The original poster was correct, no tractor/trailer rigs occur in GTA. I suspect the game engine can't display flexible vehicles as a trailer would require.
The same logic seems to apply to Starship Troopers.
The first mainstream company comic book to abandon the code indefinitely was Saga of the Swamp Thing starting with issue #29 back in 1984.
I think the Nick Fury bit is a recent publicity stunt by Marvel, if there's an earlier example I'm not aware of let me know.
The "most important book ever to be written about the subject of comic books" is Understanding Comics.
It's in comic book (more accurately, a graphic novel (even more accurately, graphic nonfiction)) form, which is the right medium to actually describe the craft.
If we all lined up in neat lines and fought on a clear plain, then yes, you're right, the US military would defeat the US nominal militia.
On the other hand, the US Military has nowhere near enough strength to hold(in military terms) the United States if the bulk of US citizens became openly hostile to it. (Holding a hostile US would be much, much more difficult than Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq...) This is in large part due to the fact that so much of the US populace is armed. This scenario is more relevant than the "Who'd win on a battlefield if we all lined up" question.
And people who care about civil liberties in general.
And people who care about the erosion of the 4th amendment through 'anti-drug' property confiscation and presumption of guilt laws.
And people who don't like the organized crime that prohibition encourages and indirectly finances.
And people who don't want to support the huge numbers people in jail for pot 'offenses'.
And people who don't want to support the huge amount of law inforcement and judiciary dedicated to pot per^h^hrosecution.
Thankfully, since California doesn't have any crime or any budgetary problems, we should just ignore the issue and continue throwing massive amounts of money into the bottomless pit of the 'drug war'. Right?
All of this has been addressed, at length, far too many times on usenet. Read the rec.puzzles archive entry.
The copying and use without profit over peer-to-peer networks is the grey area, and one which the true pirates (those who mass-produce and sell as if it were an authentic product) mostly don't need or use, as they'd need a copy of the authentic packaging anyhow.
Unlike users of peer-to peer networks, there's a good chance people buying authentic-looking pirate CDs marketed as authentic at near retail price would have bought the real thing in the absence of the counterfeit.
From english.purdue.edu,
The sentence, "Paul loves pizza more than me (do)." is incorrect, it should be:"Paul loves pizza more than I (do)." The word "do" may be omitted.
Hope this helps. Have a nice day.
Oh, and common use in the late 1800s/early 1900s USA was "Aluminum", which was the real reason for the official change by US the chemists, not "contrariness", though it is true that the US was quite unhappy with Europe in this period.
You mean like Platinum or Molybdenum or Lanthanum? (Or Stannum, though for IUPAC that's an alternate name for Tin, not the preferred name.) There are more -nium endings than -num, but -num is certainly far from unprecedented.The real fault for the confusion lies with Davy. If he'd chosen a spelling and stuck to it, whatever it was would have been used by everyone. For example, Lanthanum was named in 1839, but the discoverer chose a single spelling and stuck with it- so everyone agrees on that spelling.
Setting aside both Nature and the monthly news magazine for the Geological Society of America, if you don't think that Physical Review Letters (which is, of course, a peer reviewed journal) is a "real science journal" then your definition of such has no relationship to the real world. I guess you should stick to your 'position statements'.
I'm still waiting for evidence that this was produced, as you claim, by 'the conservative think-tank sponsored "studies."' Or does reality not support your paranoid delusions?
Put down that newspaper and read some actual science.
It's the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
He seems to have a pattern of getting in trouble with the authorities and then claiming he's being unjustly punished.
As far as I know Christopher Reeve, who wore a different Superman costume decades after (and is not related to George Reeves) is still alive.
On the other hand, I feel I must point out that they're both in Alberta. Not all that far from Calgary and Edmonton, respectively.
*- note that in Alberta winter runs roughly from November through April. With lots of randomness- it snowed once in August in Calgary while I was there ... and there was also a whole week in January with highs in the positive double digits! (in Celcius, of course)
I'd also strongly recommend the Banff/Lake Louise and Jasper areas in Alberta if you like mountain scenery and hiking.
This is somewhat controversial, and is only for the first few years of schooling, but in some elementary schools some students are taught excusively in spanish for a few years. (That's what "Emerson classrooms encompass both English and Spanish instruction with many bilingual students transitioning to English in the intermediate grades." means.)
It's been proposed a few times over the years, but hasn't been implemented as English is de facto if not de jure the language of the US, and as it would require a constitutional amendment.
Perhaps "rant site" was a poor choince of words on my part, although "killology" does seem deliberately sensationalistic. The basic problem I have with the style of that site is that it's intended to sell things. That last seems to be a pretty full speaking calendar for a "West Point Instructor". Perhaps a better request would have been for a non-commercial citation.
As to what actual West Point instructors had to say about S.L.A. Marshall, I was able to find a Journal reference:
Here's another piece on S.L.A. Marshall. He was a journalist by trade, drafted during WW II, who generated sensationalist, non-scientific stories which caught popular imagination. He was not a Brigadier General with a team of researchers during WW II.