It's all crap. It's not even Think of the Children (TM), it's just some senator looking to get some media attention that will be in the back of everyones mind at election time.
I won't even go into all the other things that generate more risk than your kid having a myspace page. It just hurts my head.
Isn't there at least one senator, somewhere, who will introduce some sort of "Responsibility in Parenting" act, which will say things like "It's your responsibility to teach your children not to put their full name, DOB, picture, address, physicals, schedule and phone number up on the internet for everyone to read. If someone uses it to get to your child, you are partially responsible for raising a STUPID CHILD."
I vote that the acronym for this particular act be: DARWIN
On another, slightly more serious note... how is it that MySpace is responsible for people putting their vital information up on teh intarwebs, but McDonalds isn't responsible for people getting unhealthy, sick, and dying-earlier-than-they-should from their food? (The "Cheeseburger Bill")
I know I'd be interested in finding out how badly people needed more inches and V!agr4 in the good ol' days.
In the old days, they didn't bother. My dad said he just patiently explained to a girl that her foot was 1 foot long, an inch was 1/12 of her foot, and left it up to her to figure out the rest. Apparently, it was a great way to get a good reputation.
I pay extra for every bit of blank media I buy, which supposedly goes to the artists to compensate them for the downloading I might do.
So, although I'm sure there's loopholes that will be pointed out... the basics of it is that I'm paying for the content. The CRIA is just giving it to me at a discount, because I'm doing the downloading and burning myself instead of them having to press a CD/DVD.
It's not piracy if I'm paying for it. And I'll happily buy a spindle of DVDs to support artists.;)
it will use liquid helium cooled superconducting magnets to produce electric fields that will propel particles to near light speeds in a 16.7 mile circular tunnel. They then introduce a new particle into the accelerator, which collides with the existing ones, scattering many other mysterious subatomic particles about.
This is why the Mythbusters should not be allowed to design scientific equipment. I can picture Adam dancing about in girlish glee even now...
"Because, those who suggest that are imprisoned and executed for treason."
Are you trying to be funny, or is this a serious comment? If it is a serious comment, please cite a few examples. I'm especially interested in learning more about the execution(s).
Although I was being 60% funny, I was 40% serious. Unfortunately, while I can give you examples of people arrested both in the US and overseas, sent to an offshore, unmonitored "detention camp", tortured, degraded, and humiliated for years with no end in sight, or sent to 'friendly' countries that engage in torture that would make Guantanamo marines turn pale.... I'm afraid I can't give you any concrete examples of people executed. Mostly because no reports are allowed out from these 'secret prisons', and the people we send to 'friendly country' secret prisons are also not reported on... so while people have gone missing, and mysterious deaths have happened, the very people possibly responsible for those deaths have told us "Hey, it was an accident, everything is fine"... and we have no choice but to accept their word on it.
This story is about a week old, but still very disturbing. Do these people not respect our freedoms at all? Is our next war going to be "The War on Politicians?"
I was in India last year; the poverty and malnutrition in the outlying areas is simply heart-breaking. Worse than anywhere else that I've been. Call me old-fashioned, but before a gov't starts acting on all of their world-stage aspirations, shouldn't they feed their citizens?
I guess that one could make the case that India's space program is an investment in the future, but I wouldn't want to be the one to try to sell that to people who don't have enough food.
You know, I was in the USA last year, and the poverty and malnutrition were heartbreaking. Millions of people with no health insurance, 1 in 10 citizens below the poverty line, hundreds of thousands of people living in the streets across the nation. Isn't it about time the gov't got their act in gear, and started taking care of their own citizens instead of acting on their world-stage aspirations?
Probably not the same situation (I don't know if the girls knew the guys were older men), but when I was 17, I had a short affair with a 34 year old woman (a neighbor two houses down). I had a near perfect relationship with my parents, but do you think I told them about it? To this day they don't know.
Jimmy.... is that you?
Please tell me you mean 2 houses NORTH of us (the nice widow Lichtoff) and not 2 houses SOUTH of us (Aunt Flo). And I hope to God it's not 2 houses WEST of us (strange Mr Flueffenpaenten)
It will only take 415 years and 12,000 US dead and maimed soldiers to pay for the oil-related energy.
I disagree, I think it will take a lot less than 415 years for The Shrub to kill 12,000 US soldiers. I mean, it's only been about 3 years, and the total is already heading towards 3,000. What's wrong with you, don't you have faith in your Commander In Chief to effectively and efficiently slaughter his own troops??? I can assure you he's thoroughly read Zapp Brannigans "The Art of War (pop-up edition)", and he has Condi reading him the illustrated version every night before bed. Once they get to Chapter 2, The Shrub will put his plan into action, and once he hits that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Pffft, 415 years. Any true patriot would know he could do it in half that time. What kind of soulless terrorist commie bastard are you?
As a long-time "one meal a day" guy who's trying to get out of that habit, it really depends. Currently I usually throw a few packets of instant oatmeal into my bag. For the rest of the day, a piece of fruit, some microwavable lunch or leftovers to reheat, and I'm set.I tried getting up early enough to cook something good, but as a poor sleeper, it just never really happened.
I wish slash had an ascii art translator, so I could make a picture of a gagging face as I think about having pop for breakfast. Ya'll are freaks. Lunch? Sure. Pick-me-up when you really need it? Why not. But breakfast? And what's with some of those quotes in TFA? "I get headaches if I don't drink it". Wow, there's a good sign. I'm sure nothing is wrong at all! "Keep Consuming!(tm)". Am I the only one who wonders if Coke has gone back to putting... coke... in their drinks?
Anyways, I digress. Now, if I don't have to be into work early, I'll stop by the greasy spoon up the street, and grab eggs and meat, with extra eggs and meat on the side. 4 or 5 eggs over hard, a double handful of sausage and bacon, tea and fruit juice... but no hash browns, I'm trying to watch my weight.;)
On a related note, I'm about to switch over to a more socially-conscious breakfast. There's a fair-trade market a few blocks away, so I'll be making my own oatmeal with fair trade oats and dried fruit. Aside from being healthier, it's also a small step towards better karma. I'd encourage everyone who has the opportunity to "help out the little guy" when possible... get your lunch from the hot dog cart or the privately owned deli instead of McD's. Go hit a fair trade store for your goods. It isn't much, and it doesn't cost a whole lot more either... but it's usually healthier, and also usually better for people who really need your help. You don't have to change everything you do, just one thing is better than none.
Well the most intelligent use of a mass driver I have seen in SF (and envisioned real space projects) is to use a mass driver to send the product of moon or asteroid mining back to the earth. IIRC, it requires more than 100 times less energy to send something out of moon's gravity well than to send it out of earth's, so a shot of 100 tons of titanium a day could well make a moon mining facility profitable.
Yes, let's shoot 100 tonne chunks of rock at the earth, on systems undoubtedly made by the lowest bidder and maintained by a minimum wage space-monkey. I can't see anything at all that would go wrong with that.
Amen. The 1/2 half of Deus Ex was one of the best games ever. I thought the second half got a bit linear, and DX2... well, it missed the boat. I only got to try a bit of DX Multiplayer, but daaaaamn...
What made DX great was that you could go about the same task multiple ways, and the coders made efforts to make this happen, and it was great. The first few times on the first level on DX I never even realized you could storm the front door and kill everyone... I always snuck around the back, jumped up the crates to the walkway, through the air duct, and into the top level, and then snipered my way down. It fit so well with my preferred method that I didnt even think about doing it a different way. One day, when hell freezes over and I work for BioWare, I'll make a game that shares that level of open-concept gameplay.
Yep, Mage, that's it! Nice game, I liked the open system... it wasn't "learn this spell to do this many points of this damage to that opponent"... it actually gave a chance to use some creativity in the game.
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It's all crap. It's not even Think of the Children (TM), it's just some senator looking to get some media attention that will be in the back of everyones mind at election time.
I won't even go into all the other things that generate more risk than your kid having a myspace page. It just hurts my head.
Isn't there at least one senator, somewhere, who will introduce some sort of "Responsibility in Parenting" act, which will say things like "It's your responsibility to teach your children not to put their full name, DOB, picture, address, physicals, schedule and phone number up on the internet for everyone to read. If someone uses it to get to your child, you are partially responsible for raising a STUPID CHILD."
I vote that the acronym for this particular act be: DARWIN
On another, slightly more serious note... how is it that MySpace is responsible for people putting their vital information up on teh intarwebs, but McDonalds isn't responsible for people getting unhealthy, sick, and dying-earlier-than-they-should from their food? (The "Cheeseburger Bill")
I know I'd be interested in finding out how badly people needed more inches and V!agr4 in the good ol' days.
In the old days, they didn't bother. My dad said he just patiently explained to a girl that her foot was 1 foot long, an inch was 1/12 of her foot, and left it up to her to figure out the rest. Apparently, it was a great way to get a good reputation.
But, where's my Duke Nukem Forever? I'm pretty sure that a hardcore 2 day coding crunch would end up with a better game than what they have so far...
I pay extra for every bit of blank media I buy, which supposedly goes to the artists to compensate them for the downloading I might do.
;)
So, although I'm sure there's loopholes that will be pointed out... the basics of it is that I'm paying for the content. The CRIA is just giving it to me at a discount, because I'm doing the downloading and burning myself instead of them having to press a CD/DVD.
It's not piracy if I'm paying for it. And I'll happily buy a spindle of DVDs to support artists.
On behalf of all Canadians...
You're welcome.
-Cerv
PS: We promise to seed more.
it will use liquid helium cooled superconducting magnets to produce electric fields that will propel particles to near light speeds in a 16.7 mile circular tunnel. They then introduce a new particle into the accelerator, which collides with the existing ones, scattering many other mysterious subatomic particles about.
This is why the Mythbusters should not be allowed to design scientific equipment. I can picture Adam dancing about in girlish glee even now...
"Because, those who suggest that are imprisoned and executed for treason."
Are you trying to be funny, or is this a serious comment? If it is a serious comment, please cite a few examples. I'm especially interested in learning more about the execution(s).
Although I was being 60% funny, I was 40% serious. Unfortunately, while I can give you examples of people arrested both in the US and overseas, sent to an offshore, unmonitored "detention camp", tortured, degraded, and humiliated for years with no end in sight, or sent to 'friendly' countries that engage in torture that would make Guantanamo marines turn pale.... I'm afraid I can't give you any concrete examples of people executed. Mostly because no reports are allowed out from these 'secret prisons', and the people we send to 'friendly country' secret prisons are also not reported on... so while people have gone missing, and mysterious deaths have happened, the very people possibly responsible for those deaths have told us "Hey, it was an accident, everything is fine"... and we have no choice but to accept their word on it.
Sorry to disappoint.
Because, those who suggest that are imprisoned and executed for treason.
This story is about a week old, but still very disturbing. Do these people not respect our freedoms at all? Is our next war going to be "The War on Politicians?"
Yes, hopefully.
"Nothing to see here, please move along."
First time I've ever seen that. Couldn't be more descriptive of what the administration would like everyone to do... for everything.
And, btw, this load of crap from the same party who ridiculed "That depends what 'is' is."
With this many pirates, global warming should become a thing of the past!!
Is test an ASAT missile.
I misread that as "an &ATAT missile" and I was wondering how they'd control it with such crappy bandwidth...
I was in India last year; the poverty and malnutrition in the outlying areas is simply heart-breaking. Worse than anywhere else that I've been. Call me old-fashioned, but before a gov't starts acting on all of their world-stage aspirations, shouldn't they feed their citizens?
I guess that one could make the case that India's space program is an investment in the future, but I wouldn't want to be the one to try to sell that to people who don't have enough food.
You know, I was in the USA last year, and the poverty and malnutrition were heartbreaking. Millions of people with no health insurance, 1 in 10 citizens below the poverty line, hundreds of thousands of people living in the streets across the nation. Isn't it about time the gov't got their act in gear, and started taking care of their own citizens instead of acting on their world-stage aspirations?
"CPUs, RAM and, maybe, storage. "
Oh, I imagine there is at least some storage involved...
Unless they cache the internet in ram
You joke, but this is Google....
Probably not the same situation (I don't know if the girls knew the guys were older men), but when I was 17, I had a short affair with a 34 year old woman (a neighbor two houses down). I had a near perfect relationship with my parents, but do you think I told them about it? To this day they don't know.
Jimmy.... is that you?
Please tell me you mean 2 houses NORTH of us (the nice widow Lichtoff) and not 2 houses SOUTH of us (Aunt Flo).
And I hope to God it's not 2 houses WEST of us (strange Mr Flueffenpaenten)
Lets talk when you get home.
-Dad
It will only take 415 years and 12,000 US dead and maimed soldiers to pay for the oil-related energy.
I disagree, I think it will take a lot less than 415 years for The Shrub to kill 12,000 US soldiers. I mean, it's only been about 3 years, and the total is already heading towards 3,000. What's wrong with you, don't you have faith in your Commander In Chief to effectively and efficiently slaughter his own troops??? I can assure you he's thoroughly read Zapp Brannigans "The Art of War (pop-up edition)", and he has Condi reading him the illustrated version every night before bed. Once they get to Chapter 2, The Shrub will put his plan into action, and once he hits that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Pffft, 415 years. Any true patriot would know he could do it in half that time. What kind of soulless terrorist commie bastard are you?
As a long-time "one meal a day" guy who's trying to get out of that habit, it really depends. Currently I usually throw a few packets of instant oatmeal into my bag. For the rest of the day, a piece of fruit, some microwavable lunch or leftovers to reheat, and I'm set.I tried getting up early enough to cook something good, but as a poor sleeper, it just never really happened.
;)
I wish slash had an ascii art translator, so I could make a picture of a gagging face as I think about having pop for breakfast. Ya'll are freaks. Lunch? Sure. Pick-me-up when you really need it? Why not. But breakfast? And what's with some of those quotes in TFA? "I get headaches if I don't drink it". Wow, there's a good sign. I'm sure nothing is wrong at all! "Keep Consuming!(tm)". Am I the only one who wonders if Coke has gone back to putting... coke... in their drinks?
Anyways, I digress. Now, if I don't have to be into work early, I'll stop by the greasy spoon up the street, and grab eggs and meat, with extra eggs and meat on the side. 4 or 5 eggs over hard, a double handful of sausage and bacon, tea and fruit juice... but no hash browns, I'm trying to watch my weight.
On a related note, I'm about to switch over to a more socially-conscious breakfast. There's a fair-trade market a few blocks away, so I'll be making my own oatmeal with fair trade oats and dried fruit. Aside from being healthier, it's also a small step towards better karma. I'd encourage everyone who has the opportunity to "help out the little guy" when possible... get your lunch from the hot dog cart or the privately owned deli instead of McD's. Go hit a fair trade store for your goods. It isn't much, and it doesn't cost a whole lot more either... but it's usually healthier, and also usually better for people who really need your help. You don't have to change everything you do, just one thing is better than none.
Not only that, don't fly near US air space in case you are grounded due to an emergency.
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You forgot your little finger air quotes around "emergency".
"Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures"
Holy crap, they made another metric/imperial conversion error!
if you can only fire 10 per day.
What would you rather have, a payload of 20 tomahawks, or 240 shells with comperable range and shorter flight times?
It's all a matter of perspective. I'd rather have more bullets firing at a slower rate.
Well the most intelligent use of a mass driver I have seen in SF (and envisioned real space projects) is to use a mass driver to send the product of moon or asteroid mining back to the earth. IIRC, it requires more than 100 times less energy to send something out of moon's gravity well than to send it out of earth's, so a shot of 100 tons of titanium a day could well make a moon mining facility profitable.
Yes, let's shoot 100 tonne chunks of rock at the earth, on systems undoubtedly made by the lowest bidder and maintained by a minimum wage space-monkey. I can't see anything at all that would go wrong with that.
Amen. The 1/2 half of Deus Ex was one of the best games ever. I thought the second half got a bit linear, and DX2... well, it missed the boat. I only got to try a bit of DX Multiplayer, but daaaaamn...
What made DX great was that you could go about the same task multiple ways, and the coders made efforts to make this happen, and it was great. The first few times on the first level on DX I never even realized you could storm the front door and kill everyone... I always snuck around the back, jumped up the crates to the walkway, through the air duct, and into the top level, and then snipered my way down. It fit so well with my preferred method that I didnt even think about doing it a different way. One day, when hell freezes over and I work for BioWare, I'll make a game that shares that level of open-concept gameplay.
One of my favourite moments came in a game of Magic a few years ago.
/. after working 14 hours straight, I know (now). ;)
Judging from your description of the game, did you mean Mage: The Ascension? You probably confused it with the card game Magic: The Gathering?
Yes, yes... thou shalt not post on
Yep, Mage, that's it!
Nice game, I liked the open system... it wasn't "learn this spell to do this many points of this damage to that opponent"... it actually gave a chance to use some creativity in the game.