Mutally Assured Destruction works with china because if they fired them, we would have to fire back. Even if it was only 20 nukes that hit us, the couple hundred (if not couple thousand) we would have to fire back would be enough to take care of enough of us to the point were it would be as good as being destroyed. Remember, the wind travels west to east so nuking China would make Korea, Japan, and a good portion of the west coast dangerous if not uninhabitable from the fallout alone. That is excluding the environmental effects of so many detonations at once and their residul effects. If we went to nuclear war, as countries both we and the chinese would be eliminated. The chinese would fall in a nuclear fire, we would fall from the tremendous damage afterwards. And even MAD doesn't govern us, the political climate of the last decades is basically scared shitless of even small scale nuclear war. As for US and russia - if we went to war with them, bothe of us plus the rest of the world would be rendered uninhabitable (assuming large scale attacks.)
Will it defeat MAD though? I mean, if you shot them straight down onto a city rather than across the country, would the satelites be able to pick them up in time?
Better than Gus Grisom who is now just another speck of dust in Cape Caneveral. At least they got a much better actor to play him then that dude they got to play Glenn. I think we have to remember, this dude and the others had the guts to get on top of a rocket that could possibly explode and to go into space knowing the probablity of dying was only slightly lower than the probablity of sucess. But they all did it anyway. They had guts, something the modern space program is completely lacking. Scientists are great to send into space, what with triple phds and stuff, but they don't seem willing to take the risks normal ppl would. Remember the geeks in high school who had so little guts that they were scared shitless of even talking to a girl. Now we got them in space. We need to get the ppl who had the guts back up there to takes the risks.
Is that in the US I seriousy doubt it is attracting younger viewers. I mean, come on, I'm a huge scifi fan and over twenty years old and even I think Godzilla looks cheesy and has no appeal. I was able to watch only two of the films before I just couldn't take it anymore. Face it: most americans and japanese I bet thinks it sucks and should be retired. You don't still see Howdy Doody on teh air or cheap western in the theaters, why cheap monster flicks?
We played this back when I was elementary school. So their doing it in bars now? What is there to say? It's cool? Nope - an adult would have to be drunk to do it. It's fun? Dancing on tables and shaking your fist at trees is fun when your drunk too. Just another filler story, move along...
The dvds we see out there are out there becuase the tv companies think they can make money off of licensing them for distrubution. If they don't think they can make money then tough, you'll just have to watch them when they are on. And if they decide to take them off? Tough. Maybe they'll start creating whole new channels (beyond Spike and TVLand) for the old shows - extra charge of course. The problem with your solution is what about the shows that suck on television and suck on dvd? You'll end up with a net loss.
Solution?
Solution 1: They'll raise the price of every single DVD season set to $100+ to make up the loss. To make up for the boatloads of cash they'll lose trying to pawn off old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, they'll push the Stargate:SG1 episode prices to the limits of reasonable sanity. That probably won't happen.
Solution 2: In fact they will probably stop putting as many shows on DVD forcing you to only be able to watch them on cable - cable you will have to spend more and more on for the sake of new channels but no new shows. Not the death of TV but the necessity of it is what the future holds. You will only be able to see some shows on cable and so you will be at the mercy of the companies. You will have no option but to subscibe. Byebye VCR, ByeBye fair use rights.
I have and flux compression generators are lucky to generate an EMP field the size of a regular balloon. Ocean's 11 is a fantasy. Unless your car is parked in the lab itslef and assuimng someone doesn't set one on top of the car, you don't have to worry.
If you could beef them up with up with better hydrolics - jumping over buildings and matrix type stuff? You got lett it all go Neo, fear, doubt, disbelief, and a sizeable chunk of you savings.
Just wait to the Chryslus Highwayman comes out - no computer components and with brakes too! juts make sure you remember to keep a spare fuel cell controller in a sealed lead box. Never knwo when a vault dweller's decendent may need it...
'"And for women with ponytails, there is even a split in the middle of the headrest. "It is very uncomfortable to drive with a ponytail," said Ms Christiansen.'
And if you slam yout head on the head rest there is a nice split in the middle where the thing can snap in two like a tooth pick.
I wonder if you their are other bodies you can fit on the cars fram. If so, you could pull a hood and front end off another car and put it on it. Sort of like the Alero and the '94 Mustang. It looks like the Alero ahs the same body design so you could probably use some parts interchangebly. Even if you couldn't, I can just see the future: instead of case mods you have hood mods. Clear ones, custom ones, '70's ones.
"Ring Around the Sun" by Simak - they build a car that has the hood welded shut and is guranteed to never ever breakdown. If it does, they replace the car for free. If Volvo is going to do teh same they should offer the same warranty. Somehow I suspect they won't be so keen on welding the hood shut...
i hear yeah man. Had to fix the heads on my car. Would have cost me 2 grand if I didn't do it myself (cost me something like $300 overall and most of that was just getting the heads cleaned.) "The only time I want to get under the hood is to change the washer fluid?" These women may be designers but they sure as hell ain't mechanics.
As for the EMP burst, if your that close to a nuclear explosion, your car is probably going to get a little more damage than just a busted computer (that coudl b e replaced otherwise.) If the initial blast is out of range, the 300 mph winds will probably still hit you, and even if your still far enough away, the initial heat shock and then the fallout will probably spell your doom. Not to mention that in a post apocalytpic world, were will you be getting gas?
And imagine the service charge when only a volvo mechanic can fix it! Had to replace the oil, that will be $400 for removing and then replacing the hood, $75 for other maintence, and $25 for the oil filter. Whoops, your car has an oil leak so rather than look for a whole in the pan we just went ahead and replaced the whole engine...
Plus there is the issue of games whose publishers have gone out of business. You don't perserve them and wait till the publisher rereleases (cause its nearly impossible to get a working tandy coco2 joystick anymore) and all of a sudden the publisher goes out of business. What happens to the games they published? If you lost all the carts or the machines to play them have been lost then taht game is lost without a ROM. It will just be liek the games Nintendo has in its library that will never see the light of day again. They'd have to be on crack to think they could make a comercial sucess out of rereleasing Contra Force or Super Pitfall.
"Hm, is there a modern-day game that casts the player as a bird or bat?"
It was called Descent and it was so damn difficult that the series died with Descent 3. There are alos a lot of airplane sims and such but I agree, nothing too out of this world. Perhaps the best is unreal tournament with its low g environments, etc.
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Mutally Assured Destruction works with china because if they fired them, we would have to fire back. Even if it was only 20 nukes that hit us, the couple hundred (if not couple thousand) we would have to fire back would be enough to take care of enough of us to the point were it would be as good as being destroyed. Remember, the wind travels west to east so nuking China would make Korea, Japan, and a good portion of the west coast dangerous if not uninhabitable from the fallout alone. That is excluding the environmental effects of so many detonations at once and their residul effects. If we went to nuclear war, as countries both we and the chinese would be eliminated. The chinese would fall in a nuclear fire, we would fall from the tremendous damage afterwards. And even MAD doesn't govern us, the political climate of the last decades is basically scared shitless of even small scale nuclear war. As for US and russia - if we went to war with them, bothe of us plus the rest of the world would be rendered uninhabitable (assuming large scale attacks.)
Will it defeat MAD though? I mean, if you shot them straight down onto a city rather than across the country, would the satelites be able to pick them up in time?
Better than Gus Grisom who is now just another speck of dust in Cape Caneveral. At least they got a much better actor to play him then that dude they got to play Glenn. I think we have to remember, this dude and the others had the guts to get on top of a rocket that could possibly explode and to go into space knowing the probablity of dying was only slightly lower than the probablity of sucess. But they all did it anyway. They had guts, something the modern space program is completely lacking. Scientists are great to send into space, what with triple phds and stuff, but they don't seem willing to take the risks normal ppl would. Remember the geeks in high school who had so little guts that they were scared shitless of even talking to a girl. Now we got them in space. We need to get the ppl who had the guts back up there to takes the risks.
Is that in the US I seriousy doubt it is attracting younger viewers. I mean, come on, I'm a huge scifi fan and over twenty years old and even I think Godzilla looks cheesy and has no appeal. I was able to watch only two of the films before I just couldn't take it anymore. Face it: most americans and japanese I bet thinks it sucks and should be retired. You don't still see Howdy Doody on teh air or cheap western in the theaters, why cheap monster flicks?
Hey dude, if you got too much money, I'll be happy to take some off your hands.
We played this back when I was elementary school. So their doing it in bars now? What is there to say? It's cool? Nope - an adult would have to be drunk to do it. It's fun? Dancing on tables and shaking your fist at trees is fun when your drunk too. Just another filler story, move along...
The dvds we see out there are out there becuase the tv companies think they can make money off of licensing them for distrubution. If they don't think they can make money then tough, you'll just have to watch them when they are on. And if they decide to take them off? Tough. Maybe they'll start creating whole new channels (beyond Spike and TVLand) for the old shows - extra charge of course. The problem with your solution is what about the shows that suck on television and suck on dvd? You'll end up with a net loss.
Solution?
Solution 1: They'll raise the price of every single DVD season set to $100+ to make up the loss. To make up for the boatloads of cash they'll lose trying to pawn off old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, they'll push the Stargate:SG1 episode prices to the limits of reasonable sanity. That probably won't happen.
Solution 2: In fact they will probably stop putting as many shows on DVD forcing you to only be able to watch them on cable - cable you will have to spend more and more on for the sake of new channels but no new shows. Not the death of TV but the necessity of it is what the future holds. You will only be able to see some shows on cable and so you will be at the mercy of the companies. You will have no option but to subscibe. Byebye VCR, ByeBye fair use rights.
Cause: "In the future, the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set."
Effect: In the future, I won't watch television or own a T.V.
I have and flux compression generators are lucky to generate an EMP field the size of a regular balloon. Ocean's 11 is a fantasy. Unless your car is parked in the lab itslef and assuimng someone doesn't set one on top of the car, you don't have to worry.
If you could beef them up with up with better hydrolics - jumping over buildings and matrix type stuff? You got lett it all go Neo, fear, doubt, disbelief, and a sizeable chunk of you savings.
No, I'm thinking of the Alero. If I am not mistaken, Ford sold GM the body design.
Big Endian to little Endian and vice versa.
Just wait to the Chryslus Highwayman comes out - no computer components and with brakes too! juts make sure you remember to keep a spare fuel cell controller in a sealed lead box. Never knwo when a vault dweller's decendent may need it...
'"And for women with ponytails, there is even a split in the middle of the headrest. "It is very uncomfortable to drive with a ponytail," said Ms Christiansen.'
And if you slam yout head on the head rest there is a nice split in the middle where the thing can snap in two like a tooth pick.
Linux? Children use Linux. Real men use BSD!
How many people have the equipment to modify modern hardware? How many people have the software to modify modern source code? See the light?
I wonder if you their are other bodies you can fit on the cars fram. If so, you could pull a hood and front end off another car and put it on it. Sort of like the Alero and the '94 Mustang. It looks like the Alero ahs the same body design so you could probably use some parts interchangebly. Even if you couldn't, I can just see the future: instead of case mods you have hood mods. Clear ones, custom ones, '70's ones.
"Ring Around the Sun" by Simak - they build a car that has the hood welded shut and is guranteed to never ever breakdown. If it does, they replace the car for free. If Volvo is going to do teh same they should offer the same warranty. Somehow I suspect they won't be so keen on welding the hood shut...
i hear yeah man. Had to fix the heads on my car. Would have cost me 2 grand if I didn't do it myself (cost me something like $300 overall and most of that was just getting the heads cleaned.) "The only time I want to get under the hood is to change the washer fluid?" These women may be designers but they sure as hell ain't mechanics.
As for the EMP burst, if your that close to a nuclear explosion, your car is probably going to get a little more damage than just a busted computer (that coudl b e replaced otherwise.) If the initial blast is out of range, the 300 mph winds will probably still hit you, and even if your still far enough away, the initial heat shock and then the fallout will probably spell your doom. Not to mention that in a post apocalytpic world, were will you be getting gas?
And imagine the service charge when only a volvo mechanic can fix it! Had to replace the oil, that will be $400 for removing and then replacing the hood, $75 for other maintence, and $25 for the oil filter. Whoops, your car has an oil leak so rather than look for a whole in the pan we just went ahead and replaced the whole engine...
Plus there is the issue of games whose publishers have gone out of business. You don't perserve them and wait till the publisher rereleases (cause its nearly impossible to get a working tandy coco2 joystick anymore) and all of a sudden the publisher goes out of business. What happens to the games they published? If you lost all the carts or the machines to play them have been lost then taht game is lost without a ROM. It will just be liek the games Nintendo has in its library that will never see the light of day again. They'd have to be on crack to think they could make a comercial sucess out of rereleasing Contra Force or Super Pitfall.
"Hm, is there a modern-day game that casts the player as a bird or bat?"
It was called Descent and it was so damn difficult that the series died with Descent 3. There are alos a lot of airplane sims and such but I agree, nothing too out of this world. Perhaps the best is unreal tournament with its low g environments, etc.