The Xbox is not outselling the PS2. It's outselling it RIGHT NOW because virtually everybody already has a PS2 who wants one. This late in the game, if you don't have one, you don't want or can't afford one, or something is stopping you from buying one somehow.
The Xbox, on the other hand, didn't sell all that well ever, especially compared to the PS2. Lots of people don't have them, and are still buying them.
You're also forgetting the fact that Sony is an IMMENSE corporation. All the products you've mentioned could fail horribly (too late for the PS2 to fail, but plenty of time for the PSP and even more for the PS3), and Sony's not going anywhere.
It's a joke on a particular facet of the Christian community. Your in the same boat I am on it: There are so many people who actually act like that that it's not immediately clear wether or not it's a joke.
I'm not sure if the Baptists in Saginaw are a breed apart or not, but that sort of speech isn't that unusual at all. The only way I can distinguish this site from any of the pamphlets that gets stuffed in my door jam every Sunday morning is the free PS2 giveaway in the sidebar and the WWJD thongs.
Yes, it is. The other day, when the Tsunami fish story got up, I submitted this exact same story just to see if it would go through (although I included the site's "free PS2" giveaway page as a sort of tip-off that it was fake for the industrious reader). I was actually relieved an hour later when I saw the "Rejected" tag on the submission. I guess I shouldn't have been quite so relieved, since they only rejected me because somebody else had already submitted the story.
Just look around the site, and it'll eventually become very clear the site is satire. Though, I should point out that my local news paper (which has as much journalistic integrity as the Sun) referenced it's christmas "evil toy" list, and also a particular (very loud) Baptist priest in my city supposedly uses it to prepare his sermons. I suppose that makes it either good or bad satire, since it can be hard at first glance to tell wether or not it's for real.
On a related note, this sort of thing does actually happen. A couple years back in Dransik, there was a player known as Bob the Warrior. He dedicated half his in-game time to saving people's souls, wether they needed it, wanted it, or not, and the other half to trying to convince rich players to give him Rune armor before it corrupted their souls. He never accomplished either, but he did manage to become one of the most hated people in the game to that point outside the guilds FU and AoS.
He was even more obnoxious than the ficticious guy in this story, to the point that he couldn't even leave town without being followed by somebody who he'd angered with the intent of killing him. My guild at the time was a neutral trading guild and generally avoided the major guild wars, but even we listed him as KOS.
He eventually accused me of persecuting him for his faith, demanding that me, all my guild mate and everybody we've associated with be permanantly banned and all their items given to him (with such a small game, this effectively amounts to 90% of the server population) and when the facts of the matter came to light (chat logs, screenshots, etc), he ended up with an IP ban and was never heard from again.
We need a reality TV show where we watch a family watching people on TV playing the Sims, and they're watching the Sims watch TV, on which there's a reality TV show featuring a family watching people on TV playing the Sims, and they're watching...
Yes, but oxygen is an integral part of water, which is in all sorts of other shit out there. Just because you can't get oil and steel from the same mine doesn't mean cars are useless.
Some of them were, and some were quite far out (although there's no scale, so they could only be a few hundred meters out and six inches deep). However, somebody else had suggested that they're condensation droplets on the camera lens, and looking at them more closely, I've noticed a few repeating patterns in them and identical "crater" groups in multiple pictures, so I think that's the explanation.
They're not thinking of colonizing asteroids either, much less comets. What they are thinking of seriously is harnessing them as resources. Just like asteroids can serve as a cheap source of metals for off-world development, Titan can serve as a cheap source of fuel. It may not be the best fuel, but it is better than burning even more fuel to ship fuel out from Earth.
Of course that goes back to the cost of transport. The energy burned in the roud trip to collect the methane from Titan would probably be greater than the energy we'd get by using the methane once we get it back here. It could be used as a cheap "fuel stop" for activity farther out in the solar system, perhaps. It may not be as effective as other fuels, but like you said, there are litterally rivers of the stuff sloshing around, so it's almost free for the taking.
Ah, now that you metion that, I think you're right. Down on the bottom-left of the mosaic, there are three pictures that overlap like a hand of playing cards. Two of them have an identical pair of "craters" in the same part of the frame. Now that I'm looking, I can see a couple other repeated patterns between frames. For example, the crater I mentioned in my first post is in the same part of the frame as a very simmilar mark near the mouth of the river delta in the center of the frame.
Sharp eyes, I would have never thought to check that on my own.
They never said Titan was a sea. They said it *might* have sea(s), and that if it did, Huygens might land in it, but it also has a solid surface, and Huygens could just as well land on that instead. Plus, some of those pictures look very much like seashores. This for example.
The captions on one of the sites talk about that, and this certainly looks like it, but am I the only one who sees what looks like small craters in in the "water"? Kind of hard to describe their locations, but there's one near the top-right corner of the image I linked to. Even so, it definitely looks like liquid, especially with the rivers.
It depends, did you find any loose change in the lint trap? If so, did you find more or less loose change than you did last week? What's your long-term trend in loose change from the lint trap? How is the introduction of the new $20 and $50 bills effecting your lint picking profits?
A better response to that is the amount of food an infinite number of monkies would eat. Slashdot articles are, in fact, written by a very FINITE number of monkeys. Lots of them, surely, but very, very finite.
There's a hitch on all of those things, though. The middle-school metaphor my teachers used was, "My right to swing my fists ends where your nose begins." Guess what? People get arrested in court houses for not being quiet. I had to sit through a few hours in the Saginaw Family Court for a high school assignment, and no less than fifteen people were arrested for making noise in the hallway. Noise in the hallway - worse if it causes people to laugh, since that means more noise in the hallway - means noise in the courtroom, which generally means an angry judge. An angry judge means a, "Contempt of Court," charge and you get to sit in jail for the day.
The doctors I know leave their phone on vibrate, sit at the back of the theatre, go out to answer a call
That's just fine and dandy. It's Bob the plumber sitting in the front row with his cell phone set to the most obnoxious ring tone ever, who can't always remember how to work the "damn fancy doohickamajig" and when he finally does answer it, he sits right there in the front of the theater saying, "Yeah? Yeah? I can't hear you, recpetion's horrible. What was that?"
The judiciary does not have that power. The police do, the prosecutors do, and various alphabet soup agencies do depending on what you did wrong (Stock fraud the FTC comes after you, illegal weapons the DOD, bad medicine the FDA, and so forth). When they do, you're brought in front of the judiciary to decide what to do about it, but the judiciary doesn't come after you. If you refuse to appear in front of the judiciary, the judiciary still doesn't come after you, the police do. The agencies that have the power to come after you are parts of the executive branch, which should be noted also controls the military. The military also does not HAVE to come after you in this case, they can call up any number of other agencies that handle that stuff, depending on how much they want to come off as assholes.
Not even just that, but comets could make an excellent fuel source depending on their composition. A facility could be dropped onto a comet, use material mined from the comet to steer it into a more suitable orbit, and then continue to mine fuel for other craft passing through to pick up.
I can even imagine a long-accelleration system for interstellar travel which would basically involve building a habitation facility around a comet, and using the comet for propulsion (for example, by planting a nuclear reactor on its surface to selectively melt parts of it). It may not be feasible, but it's a pretty cool idea.
Based on context, most likely Beethoven the dog, since the movies are aimed at a younger audience like Shrek is, and both are more likely to be rejected as "kid stuff" by an adult audience. Beethoven the composer would be more likely to be rejected by the younger audience than an older one.
These aren't just teenagers. These are cheaters, trolls, and in general, assholes. Nothing the army will do to them will fit their sins. I for one would endorse a policy involving locking them in cages with silver back gorillas overnight, but that's considered cruel, and gorrillas are expensive, so I guess this is better than nothing.
I think it's kind of like telling people who are so spasmically afraid of germs that everything in the world is effectively coated in a thin film of bacteria and other microorganisms.
By doing this, the goal could be to do one of two things:
A. Force them to see (even if they won't acknowledge it) the fact that gamers are not bad people. They're everywhere, we all have contact with them. You don't realize it because they're exactly the same as anybody else. There are just so many of them that even a miniscule killing drive imparted on them by gaming would produce an immense army of thugs and killers.
B. If they refuse to see "the light," or change their view, they've now been plunged into a situation where they are beset on every side by an invisible army. Like the obsessive complusives who imagine bacteria crawling over every inch of their skin and go though two cans of lysol a day trying to stem their spread, they have to crank up their efforts to "protect" themselves agaisnt gamers to such a point that they will hopefully damage their own credibility.
We just did everything we could to try to grow convincing facial hair. I was lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you think of it), since that and premature grayness run in my family. I could pass for 18 easily when I was 15, and even when I was 14 I had a hard time convincing the theater that I was still young enough to get the under-18 discount. Only a few places carded me for liquor by the time was 17 since I'd developed some visible gray streaks in my hair. That was before my state passed tougher laws on that, though, I doubt I could get away with it now givin the same circumstances.
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Yes, but do you have enough money to prove that in court?
The Xbox is not outselling the PS2. It's outselling it RIGHT NOW because virtually everybody already has a PS2 who wants one. This late in the game, if you don't have one, you don't want or can't afford one, or something is stopping you from buying one somehow.
The Xbox, on the other hand, didn't sell all that well ever, especially compared to the PS2. Lots of people don't have them, and are still buying them.
You're also forgetting the fact that Sony is an IMMENSE corporation. All the products you've mentioned could fail horribly (too late for the PS2 to fail, but plenty of time for the PSP and even more for the PS3), and Sony's not going anywhere.
Correction: A Christian group saying that about another Christian group, not just another religious group.
It's a joke on a particular facet of the Christian community. Your in the same boat I am on it: There are so many people who actually act like that that it's not immediately clear wether or not it's a joke.
I'm not sure if the Baptists in Saginaw are a breed apart or not, but that sort of speech isn't that unusual at all. The only way I can distinguish this site from any of the pamphlets that gets stuffed in my door jam every Sunday morning is the free PS2 giveaway in the sidebar and the WWJD thongs.
Yes, it is. The other day, when the Tsunami fish story got up, I submitted this exact same story just to see if it would go through (although I included the site's "free PS2" giveaway page as a sort of tip-off that it was fake for the industrious reader). I was actually relieved an hour later when I saw the "Rejected" tag on the submission. I guess I shouldn't have been quite so relieved, since they only rejected me because somebody else had already submitted the story.
Just look around the site, and it'll eventually become very clear the site is satire. Though, I should point out that my local news paper (which has as much journalistic integrity as the Sun) referenced it's christmas "evil toy" list, and also a particular (very loud) Baptist priest in my city supposedly uses it to prepare his sermons. I suppose that makes it either good or bad satire, since it can be hard at first glance to tell wether or not it's for real.
On a related note, this sort of thing does actually happen. A couple years back in Dransik, there was a player known as Bob the Warrior. He dedicated half his in-game time to saving people's souls, wether they needed it, wanted it, or not, and the other half to trying to convince rich players to give him Rune armor before it corrupted their souls. He never accomplished either, but he did manage to become one of the most hated people in the game to that point outside the guilds FU and AoS.
He was even more obnoxious than the ficticious guy in this story, to the point that he couldn't even leave town without being followed by somebody who he'd angered with the intent of killing him. My guild at the time was a neutral trading guild and generally avoided the major guild wars, but even we listed him as KOS.
He eventually accused me of persecuting him for his faith, demanding that me, all my guild mate and everybody we've associated with be permanantly banned and all their items given to him (with such a small game, this effectively amounts to 90% of the server population) and when the facts of the matter came to light (chat logs, screenshots, etc), he ended up with an IP ban and was never heard from again.
We need a reality TV show where we watch a family watching people on TV playing the Sims, and they're watching the Sims watch TV, on which there's a reality TV show featuring a family watching people on TV playing the Sims, and they're watching...
Goddamnit, I think you just broke my brain.
Yes, but oxygen is an integral part of water, which is in all sorts of other shit out there. Just because you can't get oil and steel from the same mine doesn't mean cars are useless.
Some of them were, and some were quite far out (although there's no scale, so they could only be a few hundred meters out and six inches deep). However, somebody else had suggested that they're condensation droplets on the camera lens, and looking at them more closely, I've noticed a few repeating patterns in them and identical "crater" groups in multiple pictures, so I think that's the explanation.
They're not thinking of colonizing asteroids either, much less comets. What they are thinking of seriously is harnessing them as resources. Just like asteroids can serve as a cheap source of metals for off-world development, Titan can serve as a cheap source of fuel. It may not be the best fuel, but it is better than burning even more fuel to ship fuel out from Earth.
Of course that goes back to the cost of transport. The energy burned in the roud trip to collect the methane from Titan would probably be greater than the energy we'd get by using the methane once we get it back here. It could be used as a cheap "fuel stop" for activity farther out in the solar system, perhaps. It may not be as effective as other fuels, but like you said, there are litterally rivers of the stuff sloshing around, so it's almost free for the taking.
Ah, now that you metion that, I think you're right. Down on the bottom-left of the mosaic, there are three pictures that overlap like a hand of playing cards. Two of them have an identical pair of "craters" in the same part of the frame. Now that I'm looking, I can see a couple other repeated patterns between frames. For example, the crater I mentioned in my first post is in the same part of the frame as a very simmilar mark near the mouth of the river delta in the center of the frame.
Sharp eyes, I would have never thought to check that on my own.
They never said Titan was a sea. They said it *might* have sea(s), and that if it did, Huygens might land in it, but it also has a solid surface, and Huygens could just as well land on that instead. Plus, some of those pictures look very much like seashores. This for example.
The captions on one of the sites talk about that, and this certainly looks like it, but am I the only one who sees what looks like small craters in in the "water"? Kind of hard to describe their locations, but there's one near the top-right corner of the image I linked to. Even so, it definitely looks like liquid, especially with the rivers.
It depends, did you find any loose change in the lint trap? If so, did you find more or less loose change than you did last week? What's your long-term trend in loose change from the lint trap? How is the introduction of the new $20 and $50 bills effecting your lint picking profits?
How about just making them monthly even? Is it just me, or have I read like six stories about MMO subscriptions in the last couple weeks alone?
A better response to that is the amount of food an infinite number of monkies would eat. Slashdot articles are, in fact, written by a very FINITE number of monkeys. Lots of them, surely, but very, very finite.
There's a hitch on all of those things, though. The middle-school metaphor my teachers used was, "My right to swing my fists ends where your nose begins." Guess what? People get arrested in court houses for not being quiet. I had to sit through a few hours in the Saginaw Family Court for a high school assignment, and no less than fifteen people were arrested for making noise in the hallway. Noise in the hallway - worse if it causes people to laugh, since that means more noise in the hallway - means noise in the courtroom, which generally means an angry judge. An angry judge means a, "Contempt of Court," charge and you get to sit in jail for the day.
The doctors I know leave their phone on vibrate, sit at the back of the theatre, go out to answer a call
That's just fine and dandy. It's Bob the plumber sitting in the front row with his cell phone set to the most obnoxious ring tone ever, who can't always remember how to work the "damn fancy doohickamajig" and when he finally does answer it, he sits right there in the front of the theater saying, "Yeah? Yeah? I can't hear you, recpetion's horrible. What was that?"
The judiciary does not have that power. The police do, the prosecutors do, and various alphabet soup agencies do depending on what you did wrong (Stock fraud the FTC comes after you, illegal weapons the DOD, bad medicine the FDA, and so forth). When they do, you're brought in front of the judiciary to decide what to do about it, but the judiciary doesn't come after you. If you refuse to appear in front of the judiciary, the judiciary still doesn't come after you, the police do. The agencies that have the power to come after you are parts of the executive branch, which should be noted also controls the military. The military also does not HAVE to come after you in this case, they can call up any number of other agencies that handle that stuff, depending on how much they want to come off as assholes.
Not even just that, but comets could make an excellent fuel source depending on their composition. A facility could be dropped onto a comet, use material mined from the comet to steer it into a more suitable orbit, and then continue to mine fuel for other craft passing through to pick up.
I can even imagine a long-accelleration system for interstellar travel which would basically involve building a habitation facility around a comet, and using the comet for propulsion (for example, by planting a nuclear reactor on its surface to selectively melt parts of it). It may not be feasible, but it's a pretty cool idea.
Based on context, most likely Beethoven the dog, since the movies are aimed at a younger audience like Shrek is, and both are more likely to be rejected as "kid stuff" by an adult audience. Beethoven the composer would be more likely to be rejected by the younger audience than an older one.
These aren't just teenagers. These are cheaters, trolls, and in general, assholes. Nothing the army will do to them will fit their sins. I for one would endorse a policy involving locking them in cages with silver back gorillas overnight, but that's considered cruel, and gorrillas are expensive, so I guess this is better than nothing.
I think it's kind of like telling people who are so spasmically afraid of germs that everything in the world is effectively coated in a thin film of bacteria and other microorganisms.
By doing this, the goal could be to do one of two things:
A. Force them to see (even if they won't acknowledge it) the fact that gamers are not bad people. They're everywhere, we all have contact with them. You don't realize it because they're exactly the same as anybody else. There are just so many of them that even a miniscule killing drive imparted on them by gaming would produce an immense army of thugs and killers.
B. If they refuse to see "the light," or change their view, they've now been plunged into a situation where they are beset on every side by an invisible army. Like the obsessive complusives who imagine bacteria crawling over every inch of their skin and go though two cans of lysol a day trying to stem their spread, they have to crank up their efforts to "protect" themselves agaisnt gamers to such a point that they will hopefully damage their own credibility.
We just did everything we could to try to grow convincing facial hair. I was lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you think of it), since that and premature grayness run in my family. I could pass for 18 easily when I was 15, and even when I was 14 I had a hard time convincing the theater that I was still young enough to get the under-18 discount. Only a few places carded me for liquor by the time was 17 since I'd developed some visible gray streaks in my hair. That was before my state passed tougher laws on that, though, I doubt I could get away with it now givin the same circumstances.