Actually, there's an awful lot of parents who are wary of introducing the Narnia books to their children while they are still maximally impressionable. It's a fun mythology but I'm at least waiting until early teens to give them to my kids. Maybe people don't complain loudly but there was at least a dull roar of uncertainty when the movies came out. You bet your ass there'd be an outcry if anyone bothered to make a movie out of the final book, where C.S.Lewis goes full psycho. But Hollywood is not that dumb.
The difference is that people don't say it about OSC. It's him saying it about other people. The crazy bastard really thinks that armed revolution is an appropriate response to the legalization of gay marriage, apparently.
Before the Internet was a big thing, I happily recommended his books to people. 'Pastwatch' is still one of my favorite books ever. Unfortunately, when I recommend him to people now, they inevitably trip over his *disgusting* hateful personal editorials. It's beyond mere political opinion--he goes on the warpath and makes it really, really personal. Some of his editorials really go over the sanity cliff too, we're talking Timecube-type stuff. It could be funny but when it's pointed at you or your friends, and he's trying to incite real political activism against you, the humor is lost.
Because of how distasteful that stuff is, I can't recommend him anymore. After all, his hate is just one click away through the search engine of your choice.
Raises a good point in my mind. If we theorize some more and discover that yes, it's possible for us to 'crack' part of the universe hard enough to push it out of the metastable state, well then it sure is a damn good thing we theorized it before we did it by mistake while testing something else!
Having the ability to do that seems unlikely, but we do keep pushing boundaries for science.
Yes, yes, it takes the "fun" out of building your own flying code, but your machine will be a lot more fun to play with when it's actually stable. Put whatever other board you want on it, but for your own sake, use a dedicated flight board if you want to go airborne!
Players who study all the insane crazy words can play Zs and Qs wherever they want anyway, players who don't will never be able to. And at the highest levels of the game, individual letter values don't matter all that much anyway because people are always getting those nutty "use your whole hand" bonuses.
I generally play with a non-scrabble-fanatic judge instead of a dictionary to determine word correctness. Sorry, "Qat" is not a word.
For those who are hoping to see it, that distance puts it at two arcseconds wide (if my calculations are decent). This is roughly the same width in the sky as Neptune, or 900 times smaller diameter than our moon on an average day.
My '99 Escort has an OEM alarm and, much like Golddess says, it can only be turned on by the remote, and only turned off by the remote OR by key in the ignition.
On a roadtrip with my ex, we had one remote and two keys. It was very annoying when she kept locking it using the remote, leaving me to either find her set of keys or set off the alarm if I needed to get into the car in the middle of the night.
For reliable quality I'd go with Schlock Mercenary. It's not-too-soft sci-fi, consistent and pretty good art, a daily update schedule, very good pacing, and nothing about it annoys me.
Not collecting much of new data, and it's one agency allowed to centralize it instead of every little local agency keeping it forever. I'd rather have one agency with a long time limit than a hundred agencies with long time limits...just keep the others low.
Build chips out of silicon and metal. Also, Ruckingenur II, where you reverse-engineer things. Both by ZachTronics. http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/play-kohctpyktop/
Neither of them are very long games, but the early levels of Engineer of the People could easily accompany a couple days in a high school science course.
You can build simple electronics systems in it. Or not-so-simple, as I'm sure youtube videos by people with too much time on their hands can illustrate. (I've seen some very impressive adders.)
The 'load more articles' is hideously slow on phones, especially when low bandwidth is available. Using the web standard back button, the 'more articles' disappear. Also, a LOT of mobile devices like to de-cache tabs when they haven't been touched in as little as half a minute depending on other activity. This also wrecks the 'more articles'.
All I ask for is a way to load each clump of articles on its own page, instead of cramming them all onto one page and making me click a button...wait...click a button...wait...wonder if my phone is even loading it...
Actually, I have to +1 for Bing here. I spend a fair amount of time geohashing, and Bing does a MUCH better job of handling the questionable little roads out in the middle of nowhere that may or may not be publicly accessible. Google Maps has led me to a lot of gated-off forest roads that Bing Maps correctly does not show.
The simple version sounds like a lot of bull. Anyone can pull that excuse out of thin air, whether it's true or not. Likelihood of a citizen making a "rolling stop" and not wanting to pay the fine, versus that citizen not only stopping, but also having perfect recall about who blocked line of sight to his car from where at all times? I'd have to side with the cop.
The answer is almost always "because the payment system is too onerous". Go put your game on Steam or something and people will be climbing over each other to buy it. Seriously, the difference between selling something yourself and putting it on Steam is like the difference between selling your book on Amazon and selling your book from your front porch twenty miles from nowhere.
Oh man, hear hear about hoarding stupid stuff. I wound up carrying two 20-oz Powerades or water bottles everywhere I went, plus a hat, plus electronics I didn't need, plus a book, and a hairbrush... But then mens' jackets are basically the equivalent of a purse, so.
Don't send your buddies a text about metaphorically blowing people away at a trade convention, just because they're getting on a plane soon? You have to be shitting me. Sorry, I don't live in a reality where that's common sense. I won't stop flying because I'm afraid of terrorists blowing up my plane, and I won't stop sending perfectly ordinary text messages because I'm afraid of the authorities coming after me. You are a degenerate coward.
Asshole. It's only eight bucks a month for streaming, get a job and you can afford it. But then again, if you're so immoral that you think it's better to steal than to pay eight measly bucks for a luxury, I wouldn't be surprised if no one would hire you.
Now I just need to FIND that one DVD I have lying around...it's probably been lost in the year or so since I last bothered to send it back. Seriously, I've been hoping they would introduce an (even if only slightly) cheaper streaming-only plan for quite a while now.
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Yes, that's breaking a cease-fire. What they were trying to do was cancel it in a more politically-friendly way. You've played Civilization, right?
Actually, there's an awful lot of parents who are wary of introducing the Narnia books to their children while they are still maximally impressionable. It's a fun mythology but I'm at least waiting until early teens to give them to my kids. Maybe people don't complain loudly but there was at least a dull roar of uncertainty when the movies came out. You bet your ass there'd be an outcry if anyone bothered to make a movie out of the final book, where C.S.Lewis goes full psycho. But Hollywood is not that dumb.
The difference is that people don't say it about OSC. It's him saying it about other people. The crazy bastard really thinks that armed revolution is an appropriate response to the legalization of gay marriage, apparently.
Before the Internet was a big thing, I happily recommended his books to people. 'Pastwatch' is still one of my favorite books ever. Unfortunately, when I recommend him to people now, they inevitably trip over his *disgusting* hateful personal editorials. It's beyond mere political opinion--he goes on the warpath and makes it really, really personal. Some of his editorials really go over the sanity cliff too, we're talking Timecube-type stuff. It could be funny but when it's pointed at you or your friends, and he's trying to incite real political activism against you, the humor is lost.
Because of how distasteful that stuff is, I can't recommend him anymore. After all, his hate is just one click away through the search engine of your choice.
Raises a good point in my mind. If we theorize some more and discover that yes, it's possible for us to 'crack' part of the universe hard enough to push it out of the metastable state, well then it sure is a damn good thing we theorized it before we did it by mistake while testing something else!
Having the ability to do that seems unlikely, but we do keep pushing boundaries for science.
If you want it to fly, you might want this: http://www.openpilot.org/products/openpilot-coptercontrol-platform/
Yes, yes, it takes the "fun" out of building your own flying code, but your machine will be a lot more fun to play with when it's actually stable. Put whatever other board you want on it, but for your own sake, use a dedicated flight board if you want to go airborne!
Players who study all the insane crazy words can play Zs and Qs wherever they want anyway, players who don't will never be able to. And at the highest levels of the game, individual letter values don't matter all that much anyway because people are always getting those nutty "use your whole hand" bonuses.
I generally play with a non-scrabble-fanatic judge instead of a dictionary to determine word correctness. Sorry, "Qat" is not a word.
For those who are hoping to see it, that distance puts it at two arcseconds wide (if my calculations are decent). This is roughly the same width in the sky as Neptune, or 900 times smaller diameter than our moon on an average day.
My '99 Escort has an OEM alarm and, much like Golddess says, it can only be turned on by the remote, and only turned off by the remote OR by key in the ignition.
On a roadtrip with my ex, we had one remote and two keys. It was very annoying when she kept locking it using the remote, leaving me to either find her set of keys or set off the alarm if I needed to get into the car in the middle of the night.
For reliable quality I'd go with Schlock Mercenary. It's not-too-soft sci-fi, consistent and pretty good art, a daily update schedule, very good pacing, and nothing about it annoys me.
Not collecting much of new data, and it's one agency allowed to centralize it instead of every little local agency keeping it forever. I'd rather have one agency with a long time limit than a hundred agencies with long time limits...just keep the others low.
Build chips out of silicon and metal. Also, Ruckingenur II, where you reverse-engineer things. Both by ZachTronics. http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/play-kohctpyktop/ Neither of them are very long games, but the early levels of Engineer of the People could easily accompany a couple days in a high school science course.
You can build simple electronics systems in it. Or not-so-simple, as I'm sure youtube videos by people with too much time on their hands can illustrate. (I've seen some very impressive adders.)
I probably have to post some comment text or I bet this won't go through.
Ah well, Slashdot has never been known for being state-of-the-art.
God, I wish it would stop trying. Plain old HTML works on every device.
The 'load more articles' is hideously slow on phones, especially when low bandwidth is available. Using the web standard back button, the 'more articles' disappear. Also, a LOT of mobile devices like to de-cache tabs when they haven't been touched in as little as half a minute depending on other activity. This also wrecks the 'more articles'. All I ask for is a way to load each clump of articles on its own page, instead of cramming them all onto one page and making me click a button...wait...click a button...wait...wonder if my phone is even loading it...
Much like the Jabberwocky poem, you don't need to know what it means to know what it means.
Oh how I wish I had mod points. You are so exactly right. I paid fifty bucks for NES games, even though they didn't have much gameplay in them.
Actually, I have to +1 for Bing here. I spend a fair amount of time geohashing, and Bing does a MUCH better job of handling the questionable little roads out in the middle of nowhere that may or may not be publicly accessible. Google Maps has led me to a lot of gated-off forest roads that Bing Maps correctly does not show.
The simple version sounds like a lot of bull. Anyone can pull that excuse out of thin air, whether it's true or not. Likelihood of a citizen making a "rolling stop" and not wanting to pay the fine, versus that citizen not only stopping, but also having perfect recall about who blocked line of sight to his car from where at all times? I'd have to side with the cop.
The answer is almost always "because the payment system is too onerous". Go put your game on Steam or something and people will be climbing over each other to buy it. Seriously, the difference between selling something yourself and putting it on Steam is like the difference between selling your book on Amazon and selling your book from your front porch twenty miles from nowhere.
Oh man, hear hear about hoarding stupid stuff. I wound up carrying two 20-oz Powerades or water bottles everywhere I went, plus a hat, plus electronics I didn't need, plus a book, and a hairbrush... But then mens' jackets are basically the equivalent of a purse, so.
Don't send your buddies a text about metaphorically blowing people away at a trade convention, just because they're getting on a plane soon? You have to be shitting me. Sorry, I don't live in a reality where that's common sense. I won't stop flying because I'm afraid of terrorists blowing up my plane, and I won't stop sending perfectly ordinary text messages because I'm afraid of the authorities coming after me. You are a degenerate coward.
Asshole. It's only eight bucks a month for streaming, get a job and you can afford it. But then again, if you're so immoral that you think it's better to steal than to pay eight measly bucks for a luxury, I wouldn't be surprised if no one would hire you.
Now I just need to FIND that one DVD I have lying around...it's probably been lost in the year or so since I last bothered to send it back. Seriously, I've been hoping they would introduce an (even if only slightly) cheaper streaming-only plan for quite a while now.