Re:Polluting other planets
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Melting Europa
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I discovered that the she felt that GOD had given us this planet and not Mars, hence we shouldn't mess up God's plans with Mars by stomping all over it with our oversized space boots.
Eh, I've met athiests who oppose us colonizing space as well for the same reasons (minus the God part).
It has nothing to do with theology.
It has everything to do with this: --> People are, in general, fucking idiots.
Sorry if this sounds 'anti-science' but I don't trust GM food,
And that is "anti-science". Exactly. It is anti-thought, anti-rationality and just plain stupid. Your opinion is clearly the result of thick, foggy ideology.
The Big Evil Corporations also make the tools to help your body beat cancer, fight infections, help the crippled become mobile once again, and so on. Should we not trust those as well. Big Evil Corporation made it possible to post your message to the world. Will you be leaving the Internet?
I see no reason for it given that organic food tastes just great and has worked fine for thousands of years
All you've done here is demonstrate your total and complete ignorance on the topic. Maybe you should educate yourself on the issue with something other than political manifestos. And next time you hop and skip down to the local grocery store, realize that a lot of the world can't do that, and would love to have some crops engineered to gorw in their own backyards and resist the local threats.
My Windows XP machine stopped printing Sunday, and it took four hours to fix it (problem was never diagnosed- I wound up reinstalling several things), so I'm quite in a "f*** Microsoft in the ass until they bleed" mood this morning.
And f*** HP while we're at it, because a lot of that time was spent searching HP's web site for the proper installer, which I found tucked away in a dusty corner. Their search engine kept directing me to "buy our shit" pages.
I so want to move to the Outback and live with the abos and escape what computing has become.
I would not be terribly suprised by another minicrash, but I think video gaming is not going to go anywhere.
1. The technological plateau he speaks of is merely a graphical one, and it only seems like a plateau because new game consoles don't come out every month.
There's also the consideration that there are many places for the technology to expand. GTA3, despite what one may think about its gamesplay, hints at what is possible. Maybe the graphics won't improve much, but the world will get bigger and more detailed. The fascination of GTA3 for me was the ability to just wander around, down alleyways that had nothing to do with the missions and find stairways to rooftops, trash bins- all sorts of real world details. Lots of the world reacted to your actions. That's a neat thing. When your video game is an entertaining toy outside of the core gameplay, you've really accomplished something.
There's more to games than polygon count. Most of the game worlds, even the likes of Halo, are still fairly primitive compared to what could be done with ever more processing power. The end of graphical improvement might be a GOOD thing, and force developers to focus on gameplay, computer character AI, and other things that are a bit lacking these days.
2. He didn't really seem to have an argument in this section. ??? His view of the types of enjoyment derived from video games is a bit limited.
3. His horizon is limited. The video games may (or may not) be reaching upwards of 90% penetration into the current market, but the *market* is exapanding. Technological civilization is creeping into parts of the world not yet elevated to such.
He also seems to oddly forget that new generations are being born, and *everything* is new and novel to them.
4. Are the Gamecube and X-Box really complete failures? They've all sold millions of units. They didn't sell as well because [A] the PS2 got there first and [B] not as many good games. The X-Box especially only had maybe two decent titles for a long time.
As for age, he's entitled to his opinion, but I play games in my late 30's. I know people in their 40's and 50's who regularly play PS2 games and PC games. To use his belabored Hollywood comparison, most people seem to realize that, just as there are movies for children and adults, there are also video games for children and adults.
5. He might be right here. I already have home theater stuff. I want a game console to play games. I don't need a jack of all trades, master of none. That's why I expect a minicrash when these All In One systems fail to sell.
6. Agreed on the online play. I know Final Fantasy *fanatics* who have zero desire in FF11 Online. The reaction is usually, "Wait, I bought a game and I have to keep paying every month?"
If you've got real reasons to oppose manned Martian exploration, fine, then say so.
OK. It would be a resource draining, PR boondoggle that would follow the same pattern as Apollo. We work hard so a few people can bounce around on the surface of another world, and then the public loses interest, resulting in another 40 year setback, and no serious move into space in my lifetime.
We need to start doing the solid, logical, incremental steps into space that we should have started in the 1950's. Orbital industry, solar power farms, something at L4/L5, then a permanent colony on the Moon and THEN Mars. NASA should bend over backward to encourage the private sector. Get serious radical new launch tech, like space elevators and lasers and mass drivers.
4. Shakespeare if pro-Tudor propaganda that screwed over some nice people. Why should anyone pay attention to the Karl Rove of the rennaisance? WHO CARES?!!!
So... Karl Rove is the Shakespeare of the 21st century?:-)
...and move to 110 digit phone numbers. Some people already dial that many to save Save SAVE two and a half cents a minute on their vital long distance calls. Read that in some spam mail, so I know it's true. With the uber-numbers, we won't run out or worry about addressing all the cell phones until the next 3-brane collides with out universe and triggers another Big Bang.
It will be a glorious, shiny Apple logo rotating though Calabi-Yau space, and the mere act of watching it will give you inner peace, deep insight, and three orgasms.
However, you can for practically all intents and purposes, shoot a stranger in your house as long as they die so there are no witnesses,
Have a large, evil looking hunting knife on hand that you paid cash for to place in the intruder's hand if necessary. Check for the location of a wallet or a watch or something to see if the deceased was left or right handed, but that's not completely necessary. People carry things in both hands. You can also wrap both hands around it and then place it on the floor so it looks like they held it in both hands and dropped it when they met the Lead Slug gang.
There are a lot of high data rate links where it's either prohibitively complex to implement turbo codes, or the nature of the channel actually makes trellis codes concatenated with some other code a better choice.
You are a fool and deserve what you get
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EU Passes Nasty IP Law
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I think a right to kill for protecting property is absolutely disgusting.
There is no absolute right to kill. People who shoot intruders under anything less then clear circumstances of a serious threat are often put on trial and have a tough time.
Price of a human life in USA is WAY too low.
The ignorance about what life is really like in the USA is WAY too high.
Look, in the middle of the night, you don't know the intruder's intent, and he's not going to have a little sit down to discuss it. Mere robbers will generally case a house (insert RFID comment here) and wait until it is unoccupied.
I will defend myself and my family to the fullest extent to which I am capable, and use whatever tools I am legally allowed to have (and a few I am not, but that's a different thread). I will take my chances with the legal system rather than the judgement of someone who has broken into my house.
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Eh, I've met athiests who oppose us colonizing space as well for the same reasons (minus the God part).
It has nothing to do with theology.
It has everything to do with this: --> People are, in general, fucking idiots.
I hope this helps. :-)
Was she at least good in bed?
And that is "anti-science". Exactly. It is anti-thought, anti-rationality and just plain stupid. Your opinion is clearly the result of thick, foggy ideology.
The Big Evil Corporations also make the tools to help your body beat cancer, fight infections, help the crippled become mobile once again, and so on. Should we not trust those as well. Big Evil Corporation made it possible to post your message to the world. Will you be leaving the Internet?
I see no reason for it given that organic food tastes just great and has worked fine for thousands of years
All you've done here is demonstrate your total and complete ignorance on the topic. Maybe you should educate yourself on the issue with something other than political manifestos. And next time you hop and skip down to the local grocery store, realize that a lot of the world can't do that, and would love to have some crops engineered to gorw in their own backyards and resist the local threats.
So when are they going golden showe- um, golden master?
I'll only charge the Army half of what a Taps playing robot would cost.
You'd think a major corporation in the country that gave us anime and geishas would figure this out already.
Then again a robotic boy band wouldn't be dating Britanny Spears (at least I don't think so) or paying to get his dumb 'tard ass into orbit.
This sounds more like artificial muscles.
Heck, if you want to claim rip-off, then everyone has ripped off Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" back in, what, 1929?
And f*** HP while we're at it, because a lot of that time was spent searching HP's web site for the proper installer, which I found tucked away in a dusty corner. Their search engine kept directing me to "buy our shit" pages.
I so want to move to the Outback and live with the abos and escape what computing has become.
Well, I've met the CEO of the weapon maker I work for, and he's hardly ruthless. Good pool player, though.
I, for one, root for the asteroid.
Can I get a do over?
Here's hoping the reincarnation crowd is right.
1. The technological plateau he speaks of is merely a graphical one, and it only seems like a plateau because new game consoles don't come out every month.
There's also the consideration that there are many places for the technology to expand. GTA3, despite what one may think about its gamesplay, hints at what is possible. Maybe the graphics won't improve much, but the world will get bigger and more detailed. The fascination of GTA3 for me was the ability to just wander around, down alleyways that had nothing to do with the missions and find stairways to rooftops, trash bins- all sorts of real world details. Lots of the world reacted to your actions. That's a neat thing. When your video game is an entertaining toy outside of the core gameplay, you've really accomplished something.
There's more to games than polygon count. Most of the game worlds, even the likes of Halo, are still fairly primitive compared to what could be done with ever more processing power. The end of graphical improvement might be a GOOD thing, and force developers to focus on gameplay, computer character AI, and other things that are a bit lacking these days.
2. He didn't really seem to have an argument in this section. ??? His view of the types of enjoyment derived from video games is a bit limited.
3. His horizon is limited. The video games may (or may not) be reaching upwards of 90% penetration into the current market, but the *market* is exapanding. Technological civilization is creeping into parts of the world not yet elevated to such.
He also seems to oddly forget that new generations are being born, and *everything* is new and novel to them.
4. Are the Gamecube and X-Box really complete failures? They've all sold millions of units. They didn't sell as well because [A] the PS2 got there first and [B] not as many good games. The X-Box especially only had maybe two decent titles for a long time.
As for age, he's entitled to his opinion, but I play games in my late 30's. I know people in their 40's and 50's who regularly play PS2 games and PC games. To use his belabored Hollywood comparison, most people seem to realize that, just as there are movies for children and adults, there are also video games for children and adults.
5. He might be right here. I already have home theater stuff. I want a game console to play games. I don't need a jack of all trades, master of none. That's why I expect a minicrash when these All In One systems fail to sell.
6. Agreed on the online play. I know Final Fantasy *fanatics* who have zero desire in FF11 Online. The reaction is usually, "Wait, I bought a game and I have to keep paying every month?"
7. was just a rehash.
I knew the Earth was getting polluted, but this is sad!
Sitck it to Canada, guys! Rah, rah, rah, siss, boom and so on!
What do you mean "How do you tell Carly and Triumph apart?"
Ooooo! POW!
One has adherents that are noisy, abusive, close-minded, stubborn, silly and the other- oh, wait a minute...
OK. It would be a resource draining, PR boondoggle that would follow the same pattern as Apollo. We work hard so a few people can bounce around on the surface of another world, and then the public loses interest, resulting in another 40 year setback, and no serious move into space in my lifetime.
We need to start doing the solid, logical, incremental steps into space that we should have started in the 1950's. Orbital industry, solar power farms, something at L4/L5, then a permanent colony on the Moon and THEN Mars. NASA should bend over backward to encourage the private sector. Get serious radical new launch tech, like space elevators and lasers and mass drivers.
To paraphrase Lois Lane, I will *personally* lead the army that wipes space ads out of the sky.
So... Karl Rove is the Shakespeare of the 21st century? :-)
...and move to 110 digit phone numbers. Some people already dial that many to save Save SAVE two and a half cents a minute on their vital long distance calls. Read that in some spam mail, so I know it's true. With the uber-numbers, we won't run out or worry about addressing all the cell phones until the next 3-brane collides with out universe and triggers another Big Bang.
It will be a glorious, shiny Apple logo rotating though Calabi-Yau space, and the mere act of watching it will give you inner peace, deep insight, and three orgasms.
Have a large, evil looking hunting knife on hand that you paid cash for to place in the intruder's hand if necessary. Check for the location of a wallet or a watch or something to see if the deceased was left or right handed, but that's not completely necessary. People carry things in both hands. You can also wrap both hands around it and then place it on the floor so it looks like they held it in both hands and dropped it when they met the Lead Slug gang.
That's a valubale tip for you, kids.
There are a lot of high data rate links where it's either prohibitively complex to implement turbo codes, or the nature of the channel actually makes trellis codes concatenated with some other code a better choice.
I think a right to kill for protecting property is absolutely disgusting.
There is no absolute right to kill. People who shoot intruders under anything less then clear circumstances of a serious threat are often put on trial and have a tough time.
Price of a human life in USA is WAY too low.
The ignorance about what life is really like in the USA is WAY too high.
Look, in the middle of the night, you don't know the intruder's intent, and he's not going to have a little sit down to discuss it. Mere robbers will generally case a house (insert RFID comment here) and wait until it is unoccupied.
I will defend myself and my family to the fullest extent to which I am capable, and use whatever tools I am legally allowed to have (and a few I am not, but that's a different thread). I will take my chances with the legal system rather than the judgement of someone who has broken into my house.
Someone out there really hates Kant or Descarte or Hobbes. :-\