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The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
Perhaps I have, perhaps I haven't. The result is indeterminate until I observe the $50 you have to send me if you want to know what happened to your cat.
I don't foresee this causing any problems because (to my knowledge) the bible says "God created life," not "Only God can create life."
Of course, I've been wrong before.
Well yeah, that's what the Bible says. So it won't cause any problems for your average Christian; it doesn't cause me any though I'm not sure if I count as average. But Creationists have decided that means that He magically poofed life into existence 6,000 years ago and that evolution and geology and astronomy are all wrong because it contradicts their literal interpretation. Life arising from "natural" causes isn't part of their accepted world view.
Since the scientist did the (almost) creating here, what questions would this raise? Now if the (almost) alive protocells had popped into existence by random chance and from a void of nothingness, that would raise some uncomfortable questions.
Because it would show that life can be created from basic non-living components using simple chemical reactions, and that it didn't require some magical "zap" from heaven to do it? Yes, in this case it would be a scientist doing it intentionally, rather than it occurring by chance in the primordial soup, but it shows that in principle it is possible. At that point you would have a pretty solid theory of abiogenesis if you can show that earth had in the distant past these basic components and sufficient energy to cause the necessary reactions, and then just like with evolution you have millions of years and trillions of molecules to handle the "chance" part.
Why would you send death threats to someone you think is going to destroy the world? If he was afraid of dying, he wouldn't be destroying the world, right?
Well the scientist obviously doesn't think they're going to destroy the world and themselves in the process.
I'm just wondering how exactly this threat was phrased. "If you destroy the world, then so help me I'm going to kill you dead!"
Not sure about "Intrepid $animal". As for Jaunty Jackalope?, what a name... I was hoping for a Jucy Jezabel. Oh well, at least they are going for Intrepid Ibex. My best guess was Incontinent Iguana. So what next?, Kinky Hangaroo and Lopsided Lobster?
I think the theme should go beyond just "adjective + animal starting with the same letter". There should be a theme in the adjectives, and Kinky Kangaroo should be the basis.
Kinky Kangaroo Lecherous Lobster Masturbating Mongoose Naughty Naked Mole Rat Orgasmic Orangutan Penetrating Porpoise Queer Quail Randy Rabbit
And so on. Now doesn't that kind of thematic continuity speak to quality and professionalism? People say the Ubuntu names are holding it back because they sound childish and nobody outside us geeks could recognize them. But when you say "I have Naughty Naked Mole Rat on my laptop!", people will instantly know that's the follow-on to the successful Masturbating Mongoose.
I do a lot of the additions/repairs around the house. If might cost *more* than a plumber/carpenter/etc if you count what my day job's hourly rate is, but for me the cost of supplies is paying for both the renos and the entertainment of doing them.
Especially since the comparison between your hourly wage and the time you spent doing the plumbing, carpentry, whatever is probably specious.
I mean, I might be able to make say $40/hr as a freelance contract programmer, but I'd be lucky to get paid at all to do plumbing or carpentry or automobile assembly/modification. Hell, I'd be lucky not to end up negative if I was doing work on someone else's stuff after they got done suing me for the damage I did. So how can I say that doing any of those things in my spare time is "costing" me $40/hr?
So to Mr. "Only if your time has zero value" OP, well yeah it probably does have zero value! How much do you get paid to sit on your ass and watch TV? Just don't spend so much time working on your kit-car that it cuts into your paid work hours, and yes it really has cost you nothing. And, like phrom here says, if you actually enjoy doing this kind of thing, you may end up being ahead of the game by some metrics.
Seriously, if you're dropping f-bombs left and right then where do you go when you're genuinely upset?
If I may use a Lewis Black phrase to describe my use of profanity, "fuck isn't a word, it's a comma".
I swear all the god-damn time. I'm also a very calm person who doesn't get upset easily (and I think letting out my minor frustrations with a "fuck!" helps).
But I assure you that when I get well and truly pissed, nobody has any problem figuring that out. The problem with you non-swearers is that you aren't practiced enough to know how to use profanity to its full extent when needed -- a little "oh shit!" is all that can be mustered before your own shock at your audacity stops you. Trust me when I say I can ramp it up to ridiculous levels of profane creativity when I really want to express myself.
No, but those people are naturally more rare, because the kinds of people who act like that are the kind of people who think rolling on an RP server makes you a dork, as if that ship didn't sail the moment they installed WoW.
It's really night and day, from quality of chat to quality of pick up group members. Sometimes the trade channel will get pretty bad, and I'll think the lustre is gone. Then I'll make the mistake of logging on with one of the characters I foolishly rolled on a normal server and it takes all of ten seconds to be reminded of how retarded most players are.
Actually as a red-blooded American, I love interest -- being able to pay interest just shows I deserve the life style I'm borrowing to maintain if I got the money for free that'd make me a commy or something -- so I have problem with Jews. Also, being a red-blooded American I will conveniently ignore any traditions of my own faith that have fallen out of favor.
No, no, that's probably true! Discovery didn't make the decision, they just presented the choice to the production company to either not produce the show, or take a long walk off a short pier.
Beyond Productions made the decision of which option to take entirely on their own.
C'mon, I know what you really want, but are afraid to ask for. It's okay. Let it out, and you'll be free. I know it's hard. I'll help. We can say it together. 3...2...1...
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The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
Don't people in your universe have editing?
Has anyone seen my cat?
Perhaps I have, perhaps I haven't. The result is indeterminate until I observe the $50 you have to send me if you want to know what happened to your cat.
Quantum ransom is the best!
I don't foresee this causing any problems because (to my knowledge) the bible says "God created life," not "Only God can create life."
Of course, I've been wrong before.
Well yeah, that's what the Bible says. So it won't cause any problems for your average Christian; it doesn't cause me any though I'm not sure if I count as average. But Creationists have decided that means that He magically poofed life into existence 6,000 years ago and that evolution and geology and astronomy are all wrong because it contradicts their literal interpretation. Life arising from "natural" causes isn't part of their accepted world view.
Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things, right now: Jack and shit... and Jack just left town.
"Attempted murder, now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?"
- Sideshow Bob.
Since the scientist did the (almost) creating here, what questions would this raise? Now if the (almost) alive protocells had popped into existence by random chance and from a void of nothingness, that would raise some uncomfortable questions.
Because it would show that life can be created from basic non-living components using simple chemical reactions, and that it didn't require some magical "zap" from heaven to do it? Yes, in this case it would be a scientist doing it intentionally, rather than it occurring by chance in the primordial soup, but it shows that in principle it is possible. At that point you would have a pretty solid theory of abiogenesis if you can show that earth had in the distant past these basic components and sufficient energy to cause the necessary reactions, and then just like with evolution you have millions of years and trillions of molecules to handle the "chance" part.
And hey it's not a crowbar but that ratchet looks like it might serve pretty well as a headcrab basher!
Why would you send death threats to someone you think is going to destroy the world? If he was afraid of dying, he wouldn't be destroying the world, right?
Well the scientist obviously doesn't think they're going to destroy the world and themselves in the process.
I'm just wondering how exactly this threat was phrased. "If you destroy the world, then so help me I'm going to kill you dead!"
I sure hope so, and I'll be eagerly waiting for Crap-face-mother-fucking-killed-me-again-damn-them-to-fucking-hell Cockatrice!
Give him a break, he was typing with one hand.
Not sure about "Intrepid $animal". As for Jaunty Jackalope?, what a name ... I was hoping for a Jucy Jezabel. Oh well, at least they are going for Intrepid Ibex. My best guess was Incontinent Iguana. So what next?, Kinky Hangaroo and Lopsided Lobster?
I think the theme should go beyond just "adjective + animal starting with the same letter". There should be a theme in the adjectives, and Kinky Kangaroo should be the basis.
Kinky Kangaroo
Lecherous Lobster
Masturbating Mongoose
Naughty Naked Mole Rat
Orgasmic Orangutan
Penetrating Porpoise
Queer Quail
Randy Rabbit
And so on. Now doesn't that kind of thematic continuity speak to quality and professionalism? People say the Ubuntu names are holding it back because they sound childish and nobody outside us geeks could recognize them. But when you say "I have Naughty Naked Mole Rat on my laptop!", people will instantly know that's the follow-on to the successful Masturbating Mongoose.
Nobody has ever really had a good answer for that other then "bend over and take it."
Uh...
Bend over and take it, please?
- EA
I do a lot of the additions/repairs around the house. If might cost *more* than a plumber/carpenter/etc if you count what my day job's hourly rate is, but for me the cost of supplies is paying for both the renos and the entertainment of doing them.
Especially since the comparison between your hourly wage and the time you spent doing the plumbing, carpentry, whatever is probably specious.
I mean, I might be able to make say $40/hr as a freelance contract programmer, but I'd be lucky to get paid at all to do plumbing or carpentry or automobile assembly/modification. Hell, I'd be lucky not to end up negative if I was doing work on someone else's stuff after they got done suing me for the damage I did. So how can I say that doing any of those things in my spare time is "costing" me $40/hr?
So to Mr. "Only if your time has zero value" OP, well yeah it probably does have zero value! How much do you get paid to sit on your ass and watch TV? Just don't spend so much time working on your kit-car that it cuts into your paid work hours, and yes it really has cost you nothing. And, like phrom here says, if you actually enjoy doing this kind of thing, you may end up being ahead of the game by some metrics.
Seriously, if you're dropping f-bombs left and right then where do you go when you're genuinely upset?
If I may use a Lewis Black phrase to describe my use of profanity, "fuck isn't a word, it's a comma".
I swear all the god-damn time. I'm also a very calm person who doesn't get upset easily (and I think letting out my minor frustrations with a "fuck!" helps).
But I assure you that when I get well and truly pissed, nobody has any problem figuring that out. The problem with you non-swearers is that you aren't practiced enough to know how to use profanity to its full extent when needed -- a little "oh shit!" is all that can be mustered before your own shock at your audacity stops you. Trust me when I say I can ramp it up to ridiculous levels of profane creativity when I really want to express myself.
What's the difference between a Mac and PC besides the operating system?
About twenty years or so of arbitrary nomenclature. "PC" = x86 with Windows. Stupid but hey what's new in English?
Did you vote to annex the Sudetenland before you voted against it?
Uh... I'll have my staff get back to you on that one.
Well were they Giant Enemy Crabs? Because then that would make sense.
No, but those people are naturally more rare, because the kinds of people who act like that are the kind of people who think rolling on an RP server makes you a dork, as if that ship didn't sail the moment they installed WoW.
It's really night and day, from quality of chat to quality of pick up group members. Sometimes the trade channel will get pretty bad, and I'll think the lustre is gone. Then I'll make the mistake of logging on with one of the characters I foolishly rolled on a normal server and it takes all of ten seconds to be reminded of how retarded most players are.
Ack, I meant to say I have no problem with Jews!
Fsck, there goes my career in politics...
Actually as a red-blooded American, I love interest -- being able to pay interest just shows I deserve the life style I'm borrowing to maintain if I got the money for free that'd make me a commy or something -- so I have problem with Jews. Also, being a red-blooded American I will conveniently ignore any traditions of my own faith that have fallen out of favor.
You know, I've heard that Muslims consider charging interest to be a sin.
Are you perchance a Muslim?
Also, are you perchance Barack Obama?
No, no, that's probably true! Discovery didn't make the decision, they just presented the choice to the production company to either not produce the show, or take a long walk off a short pier.
Beyond Productions made the decision of which option to take entirely on their own.
C'mon, I know what you really want, but are afraid to ask for. It's okay. Let it out, and you'll be free. I know it's hard. I'll help. We can say it together. 3...2...1...
Battlecruiser MMO!
Mal did say it, more or less. "But if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you."
I'm a tenth level werewolf guitarist!
Is that like electric guitarist? Like, the guitar is a werewolf? Can you only play it on a full moon?