Either the mods felt the same way, or they felt even stronger in the same way, and wanted to give him karma for it. I must admit I was actually getting excited for a moment there. Submitter is a cruel bastard.
Those "bottom-feeding scum corps" produced the aircraft that helped our military be the best in the world, and win conflicts from WWII to the Gulf War. There is no one else in the world as qualified or capable of producing as advanced aircraft. So don't dismiss them as shit just because the government pays them to produce the best fighting craft in the world. Because they do. And without them, and others like them, we quite possibly might not be here today.
Do you really think that women don't mind if their husband/boyfriend enjoys looking at other naked women?
Those women who are that insecure will also get upset if they look at other clothed women, without a doubt. Some people are secure in their sexuality, and some aren't.
It creates doubt in her mind: is he thinking of another woman as he is making love to me?
Your specific treatment of porn as something used exclusively by males, featuring females, is the greatest proof that you have no idea what you're talking about. There are many, many, many, many females out there who enjoy looking at pictures of nude women, nude men, nude hermaphrodites, or any combination of the above. For every guy out there who enjoys (or might enjoy) seeing lesbian porn, there's quite likely a girl out there who enjoys (or might enjoy) seeing gay porn.
I should also point out again in regards to the above quote, that while a small amount of doubt is natural, any man or woman who mental questions the thoughts of his/her partner each time they have sex, has more problems than just porn. They could be suffering from a lack of self-confidence. Or maybe they're just paranoid. Paranoia doesn't need porn to be suspicious, it can invent its very own vices and sins.
Porn is the great enemy of faithful marriages, and studies show how valuable marriages in are in the lives of children as well as adults.
Do you have any concept of how many marriages fail because the sexuality of the two parties is not openly discussed or understood? I know a family-related by blood-whose stability was destroyed by a lack of communication and openness. Don't presume that sexproblem=porn. It has been said time and time again that sex is a vital part of most marriages, and porn can help both parties be more satisfied with each other.
To teach anything more is to degrade sex to just another physical urge and destroys all of the true pleasure and lasting joy that can result from it.
To put it bluntly, sex IS a physical urge. Deny it all you want, the facts are there. The "true pleasure and lasting joy" is both a subjective description to the person, and only one of many forms that sexuality may take. All of which exist for the sake of pleasure. As long as it's consentual, the only reason you will ever be able to find to fight it will be your own discomfort with the concept of freedom.
You know, a "SlashCam" can be construed as one of two things: a web-based camera to view Slashdottings...or a web-based camera to view gay pr0n. For future use of the above idea, a less ambiguous name might be preferable.
If the world were perfect, the RIAA would exist only in the past tense, and in the present tense as a testing group for new "information removal" techniques to use on Al Qaeda.
Niven's Thor concept was one of the first to detail the idea of de-orbiting mass weapons. It was featured most recently in the Star Wars novel Shatterpoint. It should be noted that one of the original conceived uses for the SR-71 Blackbird was as a high-altitude unstoppable long-range bomber. The idea was tossed around of having the aircraft drop a 2000 pound iron weight onto a target while boosting at speeds upwards of Mach 3. With an impact velocity estimated to be above Mach 5, it would've had enormous penetration power. However, thanks to the efforts of certain generals in power, the SR-71 as a bomber and as a fighter variant, was scrapped.
Blade Runner was improved by Ridley Scott's work. To consider it a failure, or anything less than a great movie and a great work of art, is to be blind to reality.
The big problem with that idea is threefold. First, when the breach occurs it's going to require a non-trivial amount of time for the system to begin applying current, heating the pellets, and congealing together.
This leads to our second problem: a frigging bomb just went off next to (or within) the plating. The hull, and pellets contained therein, are no longer on their original plane. The pellets that were in the positions now left empty (the hole), are going to be either vaporized or massively displaced. More specifically, many weapons detonate after penetration. The result being an outward blast that creates a bulge in the hull, and distorts the original shape of the hull into a roughly conical form.
Which leads to the third problem: the metal will need to be in place before it cools and solidifies. In our hypothetical scenario, we have a large gap in the hull, a temporarily displaced sea, and ragged edges of now-melting liquid metal. If the pellets could move into place, melt together, then solidify within a tenth of a second or less, the idea might work. And longer than that, and water pressure will act like a machine gun and a grindstone at the same time, moving with enough force to rip away anything that isn't extremely solid and secure.
Ultimately, while an interesting idea it just won't work. If anything it might well weaken the ship, both on the long term and in case of attack. Sorry.
What happened to that pesky 3rd dimension? Y'know, it tends to complicate interactions just slightly. Not to mention air resistance, air currents, and the possibility of friction if/when the pucks come too close to the surface. Sounds like a half-baked idea to screw around with robots and leftover air hockey tables.
Incorrect. The act of printing out a sheet of money is not theft, nor is it likely to get you in jail (for how would anyone know?). What IS illegal is taking said false money and trying to exchange it for something else: real money, goods, or services. It then becomes the equivilant of theft, because you've given the other party nothing in return, without their knowledge or consent. Sorry, but your point doesn't work. It's still the actual denial of something valuable that is "theft".
I spent about a half hour altering some settings in a spreadsheet program on one of my neighbor's computer, and recieved $20 for it. Spent about the same amount of time on another neighbor's machine trying to get a downloaded program to run, and recieved nothing. Luck of the draw, I suppose. "There is nothing to be looted here."
If you only look at him as a plot element, then yes. But if you consider him as a character, and try to extrapolate him out, then it can work on a plot and a character level. The writers didn't use Q as a crutch to solve things, they used him as an interesting diversion into what if questions (what would god do without god's powers).
"Audentes Fortuna Juvats" was the official motto of the 391st and then became the motto of the 80th Fighter Squadron, after the 391st was incorporated and reformed into the 80th. The lineage stretches back to the Second World War and the members of the 80th are to this day "juvats". Seems a bit tacky to me that NASA stole the motto from an Air Force squadron, but then again what do I know.
your loud speaker can't be heard fifty miles away, and your whispering can't be intercepted or interefere with everyone within a few blocks of your location. Left out that minor detail. It's all a matter of scale.
And I'm sure they would be the absolute first to point out and tout the enormous flaws in their idea. Ignoring its massive limitations means continued funding. If they're smart enough to build it, they're smart enough to realize that ignoring the AK problem is a good idea.
...is small and light enough to be carried in a soldier's backpack and rugged enough to be tossed over fences and up or down stairwells.
Several payloads are being developed and tested, Moreau said. Most of these are non-lethal sensor packages, he noted, though he acknowledged it would be possible to strap on an explosive device to turn it into a weapon.
Suprisingly, we have this already. It's called a "grenade". It costs about $5. And guess what? Pound-for-pound, your average soldier can probably carry a half dozen of these newfangled "grenades" for the same weight penalty as one of those robots. You can even throw them much further, too! What will they think of next?!
Or flipping it on its side against a wall. Or picking it up and running off with it. Or just simply thunking it with a rock (Griggnak! Griggnak!). All it takes is one guy with an AK to spot it, and there goes your robot worth as much as a brand new SUV.
I wish desperately that I remembered the name of the author and the story, but a few years back a guy wrote a science fiction short story on basically exactly that. It was set ~25-50 years into the future, facing a renewed Russian threat. The government drafted a few hundred or thousand reservists and subjected them to a computer simulation of a Russian invasion of the East Coast. Urban combat was carried out by remote-controlled tanks, planes, artillery, and foot soldiers. The controllers hid inside nearby buildings and tried to be as stealthy as possible to avoid being detected and shot. The situation quickly devolved into guerilla warfare in urban Boston. However, the equipment they used was a direct descendent of this sort of thing...joystick-controlled eyecam gliders, and similar fighting units. Perhaps that isn't as far-fetched as it might seem.
I've been to the St. Augustine lighthouse numerous times. Their original fresnel lense was destroyed back in the '60s by some pesky kids using a.22 rifle. After that incident it was some time before it was replaced and restored. What's interesting is standing right underneath the lense when it turns on at night. The first time I was up there waiting, I seriously expected the light to be blindingly bright. But it was more like a room lightbulb than a miniature sun. The lense concentrated the light so effectively that a rather weak illumination source was all that was needed. You can see the beam from 10+ miles away (I'm tempted to say 16 or 21 maximum) and anyone who lives in or has visited St. Augustine has seen the lighthouse at night.
PS: The lighthouse restraunt down below the lighthouse has some excellent food, and last time we were there they were offering everything for a quarter: 1 pancake, 1 egg, etc. Beautiful view down on the water as well.
Great idea! Reduce the population problem in those third world countries, AND reduce the number of land mines! It's like killing two mines with one baby!
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Either the mods felt the same way, or they felt even stronger in the same way, and wanted to give him karma for it. I must admit I was actually getting excited for a moment there. Submitter is a cruel bastard.
Those "bottom-feeding scum corps" produced the aircraft that helped our military be the best in the world, and win conflicts from WWII to the Gulf War. There is no one else in the world as qualified or capable of producing as advanced aircraft. So don't dismiss them as shit just because the government pays them to produce the best fighting craft in the world. Because they do. And without them, and others like them, we quite possibly might not be here today.
Do you really think that women don't mind if their husband/boyfriend enjoys looking at other naked women?
Those women who are that insecure will also get upset if they look at other clothed women, without a doubt. Some people are secure in their sexuality, and some aren't.
It creates doubt in her mind: is he thinking of another woman as he is making love to me?
Your specific treatment of porn as something used exclusively by males, featuring females, is the greatest proof that you have no idea what you're talking about. There are many, many, many, many females out there who enjoy looking at pictures of nude women, nude men, nude hermaphrodites, or any combination of the above. For every guy out there who enjoys (or might enjoy) seeing lesbian porn, there's quite likely a girl out there who enjoys (or might enjoy) seeing gay porn.
I should also point out again in regards to the above quote, that while a small amount of doubt is natural, any man or woman who mental questions the thoughts of his/her partner each time they have sex, has more problems than just porn. They could be suffering from a lack of self-confidence. Or maybe they're just paranoid. Paranoia doesn't need porn to be suspicious, it can invent its very own vices and sins.
Porn is the great enemy of faithful marriages, and studies show how valuable marriages in are in the lives of children as well as adults.
Do you have any concept of how many marriages fail because the sexuality of the two parties is not openly discussed or understood? I know a family-related by blood-whose stability was destroyed by a lack of communication and openness. Don't presume that sexproblem=porn. It has been said time and time again that sex is a vital part of most marriages, and porn can help both parties be more satisfied with each other.
To teach anything more is to degrade sex to just another physical urge and destroys all of the true pleasure and lasting joy that can result from it.
To put it bluntly, sex IS a physical urge. Deny it all you want, the facts are there. The "true pleasure and lasting joy" is both a subjective description to the person, and only one of many forms that sexuality may take. All of which exist for the sake of pleasure. As long as it's consentual, the only reason you will ever be able to find to fight it will be your own discomfort with the concept of freedom.
You know, a "SlashCam" can be construed as one of two things: a web-based camera to view Slashdottings...or a web-based camera to view gay pr0n. For future use of the above idea, a less ambiguous name might be preferable.
If the world were perfect, the RIAA would exist only in the past tense, and in the present tense as a testing group for new "information removal" techniques to use on Al Qaeda.
Niven's Thor concept was one of the first to detail the idea of de-orbiting mass weapons. It was featured most recently in the Star Wars novel Shatterpoint. It should be noted that one of the original conceived uses for the SR-71 Blackbird was as a high-altitude unstoppable long-range bomber. The idea was tossed around of having the aircraft drop a 2000 pound iron weight onto a target while boosting at speeds upwards of Mach 3. With an impact velocity estimated to be above Mach 5, it would've had enormous penetration power. However, thanks to the efforts of certain generals in power, the SR-71 as a bomber and as a fighter variant, was scrapped.
Blade Runner was improved by Ridley Scott's work. To consider it a failure, or anything less than a great movie and a great work of art, is to be blind to reality.
The big problem with that idea is threefold. First, when the breach occurs it's going to require a non-trivial amount of time for the system to begin applying current, heating the pellets, and congealing together.
This leads to our second problem: a frigging bomb just went off next to (or within) the plating. The hull, and pellets contained therein, are no longer on their original plane. The pellets that were in the positions now left empty (the hole), are going to be either vaporized or massively displaced. More specifically, many weapons detonate after penetration. The result being an outward blast that creates a bulge in the hull, and distorts the original shape of the hull into a roughly conical form.
Which leads to the third problem: the metal will need to be in place before it cools and solidifies. In our hypothetical scenario, we have a large gap in the hull, a temporarily displaced sea, and ragged edges of now-melting liquid metal. If the pellets could move into place, melt together, then solidify within a tenth of a second or less, the idea might work. And longer than that, and water pressure will act like a machine gun and a grindstone at the same time, moving with enough force to rip away anything that isn't extremely solid and secure.
Ultimately, while an interesting idea it just won't work. If anything it might well weaken the ship, both on the long term and in case of attack. Sorry.
What happened to that pesky 3rd dimension? Y'know, it tends to complicate interactions just slightly. Not to mention air resistance, air currents, and the possibility of friction if/when the pucks come too close to the surface. Sounds like a half-baked idea to screw around with robots and leftover air hockey tables.
All I have to say...*PLEASE* STFU, for all of our sakes. -the Internet
Since when has Portland had a desert to the west?
Incorrect. The act of printing out a sheet of money is not theft, nor is it likely to get you in jail (for how would anyone know?). What IS illegal is taking said false money and trying to exchange it for something else: real money, goods, or services. It then becomes the equivilant of theft, because you've given the other party nothing in return, without their knowledge or consent. Sorry, but your point doesn't work. It's still the actual denial of something valuable that is "theft".
I spent about a half hour altering some settings in a spreadsheet program on one of my neighbor's computer, and recieved $20 for it. Spent about the same amount of time on another neighbor's machine trying to get a downloaded program to run, and recieved nothing. Luck of the draw, I suppose. "There is nothing to be looted here."
If you only look at him as a plot element, then yes. But if you consider him as a character, and try to extrapolate him out, then it can work on a plot and a character level. The writers didn't use Q as a crutch to solve things, they used him as an interesting diversion into what if questions (what would god do without god's powers).
"Audentes Fortuna Juvats" was the official motto of the 391st and then became the motto of the 80th Fighter Squadron, after the 391st was incorporated and reformed into the 80th. The lineage stretches back to the Second World War and the members of the 80th are to this day "juvats". Seems a bit tacky to me that NASA stole the motto from an Air Force squadron, but then again what do I know.
your loud speaker can't be heard fifty miles away, and your whispering can't be intercepted or interefere with everyone within a few blocks of your location. Left out that minor detail. It's all a matter of scale.
And I'm sure they would be the absolute first to point out and tout the enormous flaws in their idea. Ignoring its massive limitations means continued funding. If they're smart enough to build it, they're smart enough to realize that ignoring the AK problem is a good idea.
...is small and light enough to be carried in a soldier's backpack and rugged enough to be tossed over fences and up or down stairwells.
Several payloads are being developed and tested, Moreau said. Most of these are non-lethal sensor packages, he noted, though he acknowledged it would be possible to strap on an explosive device to turn it into a weapon.
Suprisingly, we have this already. It's called a "grenade". It costs about $5. And guess what? Pound-for-pound, your average soldier can probably carry a half dozen of these newfangled "grenades" for the same weight penalty as one of those robots. You can even throw them much further, too! What will they think of next?!
Or flipping it on its side against a wall. Or picking it up and running off with it. Or just simply thunking it with a rock (Griggnak! Griggnak!). All it takes is one guy with an AK to spot it, and there goes your robot worth as much as a brand new SUV.
I wish desperately that I remembered the name of the author and the story, but a few years back a guy wrote a science fiction short story on basically exactly that. It was set ~25-50 years into the future, facing a renewed Russian threat. The government drafted a few hundred or thousand reservists and subjected them to a computer simulation of a Russian invasion of the East Coast. Urban combat was carried out by remote-controlled tanks, planes, artillery, and foot soldiers. The controllers hid inside nearby buildings and tried to be as stealthy as possible to avoid being detected and shot. The situation quickly devolved into guerilla warfare in urban Boston. However, the equipment they used was a direct descendent of this sort of thing...joystick-controlled eyecam gliders, and similar fighting units. Perhaps that isn't as far-fetched as it might seem.
I've been to the St. Augustine lighthouse numerous times. Their original fresnel lense was destroyed back in the '60s by some pesky kids using a .22 rifle. After that incident it was some time before it was replaced and restored. What's interesting is standing right underneath the lense when it turns on at night. The first time I was up there waiting, I seriously expected the light to be blindingly bright. But it was more like a room lightbulb than a miniature sun. The lense concentrated the light so effectively that a rather weak illumination source was all that was needed. You can see the beam from 10+ miles away (I'm tempted to say 16 or 21 maximum) and anyone who lives in or has visited St. Augustine has seen the lighthouse at night.
PS: The lighthouse restraunt down below the lighthouse has some excellent food, and last time we were there they were offering everything for a quarter: 1 pancake, 1 egg, etc. Beautiful view down on the water as well.
That sounds...absolutely awesome. Assemble it on the moon, launch it up into lunar orbit, and aim it at the Earth. Mwuahahahahah!
TCP over IP (international petroleum)!!!
Great idea! Reduce the population problem in those third world countries, AND reduce the number of land mines! It's like killing two mines with one baby!
Maybe he means they blackmailed him for a few grand?