The Pak Scouts ran one bussard ramjet in front of another, with the second burning the exhaust from the first as fuel! If you don't have a hyperdrive, all that hydrogen is a feature, not a bug.
I still have an old 32" crt Magnavox TV with SmartSound. It works incredibly well, and you actually want to leave it on for movies. IIRC, the reason that Magnavox doesn't make SmartSound is that congressional douchebags made the technology illegal at the behest of Madison Avenue.
Like any good salesman, a drug dealer will try to convert a marijuana user to use other drugs that turn a better profit.
This is not the way it works. As a rule, pot users are not interested in converting to stronger drugs, any more than corporate cokeheads are jonesing for a big bongload. You've been fooled into believing the propaganda spread by the gov't, dea, law enforcement. You are forgiven.
Agreed, this could be a Good Thing. The police already have their videotapes for proof when they're in the right, streaming police video to a remote station could help to alleviate the all-too-commen "the tape got damaged/lost" when the police are in the wrong.
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Orson? Is that you? Knock off the AC posting shit and take your flogging like a man.
After a read, I have a hard time leaving the Hyperionverse and returning to reality. Don't even get me started about the Duneverse - it was bad enough when Frank prattled on about his Fish Speakers and Honored Matres, but the hideous defiling that his son has done to the series has nearly runied the original magic of even the original book for me.
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Ender's game was never good.
Amen, brother. One of the lamest books of all time. When it won the Hugo and Nebula I realized that those awards no longer meant anything.
-1 Flamebait? Fuck that! Somebody's a crybaby Obama-loving pussy! Hey, sorry the truth hurts, but it's still the truth! Maybe you should sissy off to Merry Olde England where you'd fit in a little better. Pansy.
First the UK banned guns. Violence increased (dramatically.)
Then they banned knives. Violence increased.
Then they banned swords. Violence increased (a little. Swords weren't a problem.)
Next they will ban cricket bats and baseball bats. Violence will increase.
Then they will ban axes, hatchets, screwdrivers, hammers, rocks, etc. Violence will increase.
After that they will ban pointed sticks (and pieces of fruit.) Violence will increase.
Eventually they will try to ban fists, thumbs, feet, knees and elbows.
Why does the violence increase as weapons bans are enacted? Only law abiding people are disarmed. The lawbreakers don't obey weapons-control laws. Disarmed citizens make the best targets, and soon all UK citizens will be disarmed, a criminal's paradise. Armed citizens decrease crime.
Obama is a gun control freak. Don't let him screw up America the way the English have screwed themselves. Cold dead hands. Molon labe!
How did the English, who once ruled a vast empire, become such sissified little bitches? Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates.
BTW, if you like the way that England is going with this, vote Obama, he's got the same thing in mind for America.
Did I say it wasn't a real gun/ammo, Anonymous Clown? The problem with rocket propelled ammo is that it leaves the barrel of the weapon travelling so slowly that reasonable accuracy is always impossible.
It's an old and lame idea. It was originally called the Gyrojet. Accuracy is horrible, reliability poor, and the ammo is prohibitively expensive. Yet another "new" idea.
The only thing wrong with linux is lack of availability of 3rd party shrink-wrap type applications and games. I would love to give up XP, but linux can't run the video editing software that I need and games that I want.
I preferred the Catastrophe over the Catapult! But I think that Anthony got kinda lazy after Centaur Aisle, I don't think he put a lot of thought into the books that follow, just cashed in on the franchise. And the puns get agonizing from about Ogre Ogre on... Compare what a great book Castle Roogna is VS, say, Golem in the Gears...
Hey, Pak Protector! How about the book Protector? (Larry Niven, of course, for those who didn't know.) Other good books by Niven: (besides Ringworld) Tales of Known Space, Neutron Star, World of Ptavvs.
It's not the orbit that the huge moon stabilizes. It stabilizes the angle of the planet's axis of rotation. Life on planet earth would suck if the planet occasionally rolled over on its side so that the poles aimed right at/away from the sun.
Everyone I know who got it with a new machine kept it Because Auntie Cathy (et al) has no idea what Vista is, or XP, or even what an operating system is or does for that matter.
enjoy it, and have not had any problems with it so far. Here's where your idea breaks down. Auntie Cathy (et al) has had lots of problems with Vista, her printer/scanner drivers don't work right, many of her programs don't work anymore, UAC frightens and confuses her, and her new $1000 machine runs considerably slower than the five year old XP machine it replaced.
But read/. and you'll find these so-called administrators, power users, etc telling nothing but horror stories. If you don't have enough IT experience to recognize that most Slashdotters are bona-fide (not so-called) sysadmins, power users, and other technology cognoscenti, then you are probably operating at Auntie Cathy's expertise level and are far from qualified to comment (cry like a baby) on this forum. Stick with myspace, you'll fit in better there.
The simple truth is that people who have a clue aren't using Vista, only the clueless are runing it, and that's only because it's the default condition of a new PC, as leveraged by the incompetent money grubbers at Micro$oft.
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The Pak Scouts ran one bussard ramjet in front of another, with the second burning the exhaust from the first as fuel! If you don't have a hyperdrive, all that hydrogen is a feature, not a bug.
I still have an old 32" crt Magnavox TV with SmartSound. It works incredibly well, and you actually want to leave it on for movies. IIRC, the reason that Magnavox doesn't make SmartSound is that congressional douchebags made the technology illegal at the behest of Madison Avenue.
Like any good salesman, a drug dealer will try to convert a marijuana user to use other drugs that turn a better profit.
This is not the way it works. As a rule, pot users are not interested in converting to stronger drugs, any more than corporate cokeheads are jonesing for a big bongload. You've been fooled into believing the propaganda spread by the gov't, dea, law enforcement. You are forgiven.
Agreed, this could be a Good Thing. The police already have their videotapes for proof when they're in the right, streaming police video to a remote station could help to alleviate the all-too-commen "the tape got damaged/lost" when the police are in the wrong.
Orson? Is that you? Knock off the AC posting shit and take your flogging like a man.
After a read, I have a hard time leaving the Hyperionverse and returning to reality. Don't even get me started about the Duneverse - it was bad enough when Frank prattled on about his Fish Speakers and Honored Matres, but the hideous defiling that his son has done to the series has nearly runied the original magic of even the original book for me.
Ender's game was never good.
Amen, brother. One of the lamest books of all time. When it won the Hugo and Nebula I realized that those awards no longer meant anything.
because you're playing the DRM'd music through your soundcard and capturing the output of the soundcard back to a digital file
Not necessary. I've recoded Wallyworld wmv's directly to mp3's. The only downside was that the ID3 tag info had to be plugged in manually.
-1 Flamebait? Fuck that! Somebody's a crybaby Obama-loving pussy! Hey, sorry the truth hurts, but it's still the truth! Maybe you should sissy off to Merry Olde England where you'd fit in a little better. Pansy.
First the UK banned guns. Violence increased (dramatically.)
Then they banned knives. Violence increased.
Then they banned swords. Violence increased (a little. Swords weren't a problem.)
Next they will ban cricket bats and baseball bats. Violence will increase.
Then they will ban axes, hatchets, screwdrivers, hammers, rocks, etc. Violence will increase.
After that they will ban pointed sticks (and pieces of fruit.) Violence will increase.
Eventually they will try to ban fists, thumbs, feet, knees and elbows.
Why does the violence increase as weapons bans are enacted? Only law abiding people are disarmed. The lawbreakers don't obey weapons-control laws. Disarmed citizens make the best targets, and soon all UK citizens will be disarmed, a criminal's paradise. Armed citizens decrease crime.
Obama is a gun control freak. Don't let him screw up America the way the English have screwed themselves. Cold dead hands. Molon labe!
How did the English, who once ruled a vast empire, become such sissified little bitches? Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates.
BTW, if you like the way that England is going with this, vote Obama, he's got the same thing in mind for America.
Did I say it wasn't a real gun/ammo, Anonymous Clown? The problem with rocket propelled ammo is that it leaves the barrel of the weapon travelling so slowly that reasonable accuracy is always impossible.
It's an old and lame idea. It was originally called the Gyrojet. Accuracy is horrible, reliability poor, and the ammo is prohibitively expensive. Yet another "new" idea.
In Soviet Russia...! Aw shit, there's just no sport in this one.
The only thing wrong with linux is lack of availability of 3rd party shrink-wrap type applications and games. I would love to give up XP, but linux can't run the video editing software that I need and games that I want.
It was not LICK.
It was not KICK.
It was CUT OFF.
Jesse Jackson shows his true colors again.
I preferred the Catastrophe over the Catapult! But I think that Anthony got kinda lazy after Centaur Aisle, I don't think he put a lot of thought into the books that follow, just cashed in on the franchise. And the puns get agonizing from about Ogre Ogre on... Compare what a great book Castle Roogna is VS, say, Golem in the Gears...
Clarke's got some great stuff: Imperial Earth, Glide Path, The City and the Stars, Childhood's End, The Songs of Distant Earth.
Agreed. Could never understand the fuss over Card/Ender. Weak books.
Hey, Pak Protector! How about the book Protector? (Larry Niven, of course, for those who didn't know.) Other good books by Niven: (besides Ringworld) Tales of Known Space, Neutron Star, World of Ptavvs.
Keep in mind that any nonposting mouthbreathing knuckledragger with mod points can do whatever stupid thing they like with them.
It's not the orbit that the huge moon stabilizes. It stabilizes the angle of the planet's axis of rotation. Life on planet earth would suck if the planet occasionally rolled over on its side so that the poles aimed right at/away from the sun.
I wish I had points to mod you up.
Selling skin, selling god, it all looks the same on the credit card.