Umm, no, I mean seriously, the guy said that the office suite wasn't worth the 0$ pricetag. I would like to know why, because if I'm about to run up against some glaring lack of functionality in Star Office I would like to know beforehand.
Kintanon Now, go be a fuckhead somewhere else. We're all full up here.
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No no no, *I* Was advocating that we get rid of porn. Not implying that you were. I was poking fun at the person who implied that it reduces rape and female promiscuity by suggesting that we get rid of Porn so that everyone can have more sex. (The point of the joke being that I hoped to be a beneficiary of the increased sexual level of everyone involved) The post was meant to be funny. Don't get your panties in a twist.
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If there were any new sorts of molecules out there, they would give unusual radio emissions that would be of great scientific interest... we have yet to see any such evidence
This is still based only on the size of the area we can scan, which has just recently begun to reach beyond our own galaxy. And we aren't even able to take a close look at our own galaxy yet. We are also limited by our scanning methods. There is still an entire universe of near infinite capacity that we haven't even begun to get data on, don't go ruling everything out just yet. After all, if we're at the limit of all natural chemistry and physics we're pretty much confined to this planet completely, aren't we?
Yeah, for real! Let's get rid of all the porn then, cause all those slutty women can fulfill all of the would be rapists... Seems like things would even out with a lot more sex for everyone. I don't see how we can go wrong!!
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Sample size is equal to this planet and life on this planet. This is not necessarily indicative of the chemistry of every other planet in the universe. We by no means have catalogued every element that exists and there's nothing to say that some element we discover in the future won't be capable of everything Carbon can do and more.
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Hmmm, my opinion would be that Occam's razor cuts the other way. The simplest solution is that if it happened once, it will happen again. There is no such thing as a completely unique event (Or the opposite, every event is completely unique, which is really the same thing) hence the occurance of intelligent life on earth must be replicated somewhere else in the universe given that the number of possibilities of that occurance approaches infinity. Intelligent Life other than us is almost certain, when and where, that's the mystery.
Pretty much all of them... They are useless, smelly, tend to exude noxious liquids, and are all around unpleasant until around age 6 when they can be taught swear words and kungfu.
It's sad how afraid human's can get of the unknown. [sarcasm] If you support nuclear energy, cloning, genetically modified foods, you must really hate babies and America, and you must be a terrorist!!!! [/sarcasm]
But, but... I DO support all of those things, and I DO hate babies and America! Does that make me a terrorist by default? Do I need to go stock up on C4 and finish assembling my AR-50?
Ooh, enlighten me?? I always wondered what happened to the station wagon, I liked station wagons. Fairly small, versatile, could carry people or stuff around, could be made to get good gas mileage. All around great car design, where did they go? What CAFE regulations killed them? I haven't heard about this before.
Note to you: Scientists are not making these assertions. The people reporting the story are tagging these things on to make their story sound better/more urgent/whatever. This should not reflect poorly on the scientists.
Because someone choosing to walk isn't sucking up resources at a greater than necessary rate for no bloody reason. I see people driving SUVs with no one in them but themselves, obviously not carrying anything bigger than a small box. Why the HELL are they driving a hugeass SUV? Minivans are passenger vehicles, if you carry a lot of passengers they are a good investment. They also tend to get better gas mileage than SUVs. SUVs are 'Sport Utility Vehicles' so you get a vehicle that kind of looks like a cross between a truck and a van, but also stuffed full of luxury crap and with worse gase mileage than both. And you don't have to be driving a Scooter or a Yugo to have an efficient vehicle. The new Volkswagen Beetle gets 50mpg and has enoug room in it to carry 5 people, or 2 people and a whole bunch of stuff. SUVs are an uneccesary, unsightly, blight on the landscape. And SUV drivers had damn well better not be complaining that I choose to walk. I'm trying to make up for their gas guzzling lazy asses so those pathetic whiny entitlement minded me-me-me children they are hauling around will still be able to breathe without a gasmask when they grow up.
Considering that they already control most of the equipment resources needed for mining and processing pretty much anything I don't think it will be a problem for them to make a lateral move from Oil Conglomerate to Hydrogen Conglomerate.
17,000 isn't necessarily a 'budget' vehicle. There are plenty of brand new vehicles at around 10K. If they jumped up to 15-17K to switch to hydrogen, and the SUVs became unaffordable I don't think I would cry one bit. I walk pretty much everywhere, so smaller cars on the road would make my day. It's not as if most people who own an SUV need them anyways...
Yes, you get the benefit of the doubt UNTIL you attempt to force entry into my home. At which point you become a hostile intruder who (as far as I know) is bent on the murder of my wife and myself. At that point you had damn well better be prepared to end up at the very least hospitalized.
I have to agree, 2 of them pushing into MY house uninvited would have disappeared without a trace, and I would have no knowledge of their whereabouts, never having met them of course....
Example: Final Fantasy Game Time to Complete: 30 - 60 hrs (depending on which version) Time to Write a Complete Review 60-65 hrs (Have to do all of the side quests, reach max level, etc... to satisfy your requirements for a "complete" review)
That's EASILY a full time job in hours. If you have 3 days to write the review, WTF are you going to do? Play for 20 hours a day? A review is NOT supposed to be a complete writeup of every aspect of the game. It's supposed to be a brief description of several aspects of the game. To expect reviewers to play every game they get through to completion is completely unreasonable. When I read a review I just want to know what the graphics/sound/gameplay are like, and maybe a little insight into the storyline. I don't need the reviewer to give me a blow by blow analysis of every part of the game.
I assume I'm under surveilance act as if I weren't. Fuck them, fuck them all. I routinely leave inflammatory messages regarding government officials in places where I know someone will find them. I go out of my way to call attention to myself through annoying acts which are not illegal. I figure as long as they are occupied watching me they won't be harassing someone else.
Why do people get all hung up on motivation? If someone is doing something Good then it doesn't matter WHY they are doing it, the act is still Good. If someone is doing something Bad, the same applies, even if they have a pure and just motivation the act itself is still Bad.
Here's a solution for you, piss off. None of the people who USE IRC care about the security of the protocol. Snoop all you want, who cares if you know everything I ever said on IRC? The X bot probably has a log of 90% of everything that's been said on Undernet. We use IRC because it's fast and we can find lots of people quickly without any trouble. Anyone can start a new chan to talk to their friends in. It's simple, it works well, we like it. So stop trying to fuck with it. There's nothing wrong with IRC. It doesn't need to be changed. Piss off.
If you are stuck in freeway traffic then sure, talk all you want, you aren't moving. But if you're driving through downtown in the middle of lunchtime hang up the damn phone before you kill someone!
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Umm, no, I mean seriously, the guy said that the office suite wasn't worth the 0$ pricetag. I would like to know why, because if I'm about to run up against some glaring lack of functionality in Star Office I would like to know beforehand.
Kintanon
Now, go be a fuckhead somewhere else. We're all full up here.
And sometimes the answer is "Try Harder".
Kintanon
What's wrong with Star Office? It seems to work spectacularly for me....
Kintanon
Oops, my bad then, I must have juts looked right past your post and hit reply. Sorry for the confusion.
Kintanon
No no no, *I* Was advocating that we get rid of porn. Not implying that you were. I was poking fun at the person who implied that it reduces rape and female promiscuity by suggesting that we get rid of Porn so that everyone can have more sex. (The point of the joke being that I hoped to be a beneficiary of the increased sexual level of everyone involved)
The post was meant to be funny. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Kintanon
If there were any new sorts of molecules out there, they would give unusual radio emissions that would be of great scientific interest... we have yet to see any such evidence
This is still based only on the size of the area we can scan, which has just recently begun to reach beyond our own galaxy. And we aren't even able to take a close look at our own galaxy yet. We are also limited by our scanning methods. There is still an entire universe of near infinite capacity that we haven't even begun to get data on, don't go ruling everything out just yet. After all, if we're at the limit of all natural chemistry and physics we're pretty much confined to this planet completely, aren't we?
Kintanon
Yeah, for real! Let's get rid of all the porn then, cause all those slutty women can fulfill all of the would be rapists... Seems like things would even out with a lot more sex for everyone. I don't see how we can go wrong!!
Kintanon
Sample size is equal to this planet and life on this planet. This is not necessarily indicative of the chemistry of every other planet in the universe. We by no means have catalogued every element that exists and there's nothing to say that some element we discover in the future won't be capable of everything Carbon can do and more.
Kintanon
Hmmm, my opinion would be that Occam's razor cuts the other way. The simplest solution is that if it happened once, it will happen again. There is no such thing as a completely unique event (Or the opposite, every event is completely unique, which is really the same thing) hence the occurance of intelligent life on earth must be replicated somewhere else in the universe given that the number of possibilities of that occurance approaches infinity.
Intelligent Life other than us is almost certain, when and where, that's the mystery.
Kintanon
Pretty much all of them... They are useless, smelly, tend to exude noxious liquids, and are all around unpleasant until around age 6 when they can be taught swear words and kungfu.
Kintanon
It's sad how afraid human's can get of the unknown.
[sarcasm] If you support nuclear energy, cloning, genetically modified foods, you must really
hate babies and America, and you must be a terrorist!!!!
[/sarcasm]
But, but... I DO support all of those things, and I DO hate babies and America! Does that make me a terrorist by default? Do I need to go stock up on C4 and finish assembling my AR-50?
Kintanon
Ooh, enlighten me?? I always wondered what happened to the station wagon, I liked station wagons. Fairly small, versatile, could carry people or stuff around, could be made to get good gas mileage. All around great car design, where did they go? What CAFE regulations killed them? I haven't heard about this before.
Kintanon
Note to you: Scientists are not making these assertions. The people reporting the story are tagging these things on to make their story sound better/more urgent/whatever. This should not reflect poorly on the scientists.
Kintanon
Because someone choosing to walk isn't sucking up resources at a greater than necessary rate for no bloody reason. I see people driving SUVs with no one in them but themselves, obviously not carrying anything bigger than a small box. Why the HELL are they driving a hugeass SUV?
Minivans are passenger vehicles, if you carry a lot of passengers they are a good investment. They also tend to get better gas mileage than SUVs. SUVs are 'Sport Utility Vehicles' so you get a vehicle that kind of looks like a cross between a truck and a van, but also stuffed full of luxury crap and with worse gase mileage than both.
And you don't have to be driving a Scooter or a Yugo to have an efficient vehicle. The new Volkswagen Beetle gets 50mpg and has enoug room in it to carry 5 people, or 2 people and a whole bunch of stuff. SUVs are an uneccesary, unsightly, blight on the landscape. And SUV drivers had damn well better not be complaining that I choose to walk. I'm trying to make up for their gas guzzling lazy asses so those pathetic whiny entitlement minded me-me-me children they are hauling around will still be able to breathe without a gasmask when they grow up.
Kintanon
Considering that they already control most of the equipment resources needed for mining and processing pretty much anything I don't think it will be a problem for them to make a lateral move from Oil Conglomerate to Hydrogen Conglomerate.
Kintanon
17,000 isn't necessarily a 'budget' vehicle. There are plenty of brand new vehicles at around 10K. If they jumped up to 15-17K to switch to hydrogen, and the SUVs became unaffordable I don't think I would cry one bit. I walk pretty much everywhere, so smaller cars on the road would make my day. It's not as if most people who own an SUV need them anyways...
Kintanon
I don't see how you can describe the sound those Ricoh copiers make as a 'hum'... More like impending-aircraft-take-off-noise of the ricoh copier...
Kintanon
Yes, you get the benefit of the doubt UNTIL you attempt to force entry into my home. At which point you become a hostile intruder who (as far as I know) is bent on the murder of my wife and myself. At that point you had damn well better be prepared to end up at the very least hospitalized.
Kintanon
I have to agree, 2 of them pushing into MY house uninvited would have disappeared without a trace, and I would have no knowledge of their whereabouts, never having met them of course....
Kintanon
Example: Final Fantasy
Game Time to Complete: 30 - 60 hrs (depending on which version)
Time to Write a Complete Review 60-65 hrs (Have to do all of the side quests, reach max level, etc... to satisfy your requirements for a "complete" review)
That's EASILY a full time job in hours. If you have 3 days to write the review, WTF are you going to do? Play for 20 hours a day? A review is NOT supposed to be a complete writeup of every aspect of the game. It's supposed to be a brief description of several aspects of the game. To expect reviewers to play every game they get through to completion is completely unreasonable. When I read a review I just want to know what the graphics/sound/gameplay are like, and maybe a little insight into the storyline. I don't need the reviewer to give me a blow by blow analysis of every part of the game.
Kintanon
I assume I'm under surveilance act as if I weren't.
Fuck them, fuck them all. I routinely leave inflammatory messages regarding government officials in places where I know someone will find them. I go out of my way to call attention to myself through annoying acts which are not illegal. I figure as long as they are occupied watching me they won't be harassing someone else.
Kintanon
Insightful?!?! This isn't insightful! It's inciteful, ie Flamebait! My god people! I can't get moderated down when I TRY!!
Kintanon
Why do people get all hung up on motivation? If someone is doing something Good then it doesn't matter WHY they are doing it, the act is still Good. If someone is doing something Bad, the same applies, even if they have a pure and just motivation the act itself is still Bad.
Kintanon
Here's a solution for you, piss off. None of the people who USE IRC care about the security of the protocol. Snoop all you want, who cares if you know everything I ever said on IRC? The X bot probably has a log of 90% of everything that's been said on Undernet. We use IRC because it's fast and we can find lots of people quickly without any trouble. Anyone can start a new chan to talk to their friends in. It's simple, it works well, we like it. So stop trying to fuck with it. There's nothing wrong with IRC. It doesn't need to be changed. Piss off.
Kintanon
If you are stuck in freeway traffic then sure, talk all you want, you aren't moving. But if you're driving through downtown in the middle of lunchtime hang up the damn phone before you kill someone!
Kintanon