On the Gameboy version, winning Game B, level 9, 5 high results in a ending sequence. First, a bunch of dancers and musicians perform for you, then you watch a shuttle launch.
In Game A, attaining certain high scores is rewarded with smaller spacecraft launches, started with a puny probe and going up in size to some moderately impressing rockets.
Non-smokers develop lung cancer at a rate of about 7 people per 100000.
Smokers develop lung cancer at a rate of 24 people per 100000.
As you can see, smoking increasing one's chances of lung cancer by 350%. However, you would have to be an idiot to think that smoking should be avoided for that reason: 99.975% of all smokers never develop lung cancer. Additionally, the majority of smokers who develop lung cancer do not die prematurely.
Secondly, most drugs are completely safe when used responsibly, even hard drugs like coke and meth. Yes, people fuck themselves up with drugs, and they fuck themselves up terribly, even killing themselves on occasion. However, the vast, vast majority of drug users never have a problem. Tests of sewage systems in Prague have shown that actual coke use is more than three times greater than anti-drug 'authorities' estimate based upon the rehab population. What's more, there are some illegal drugs that are completely harmless. Cannabis, for example. If you've listened to the government and think marijuana does nasty shit, look as the Netherlands, where cannabis is effectively legal. The Dutch have maintained their standing internationally, and cannabis use in Holland has decreased since legalization.
Aspirin kills 10,000 people a year; users develop painful, hemmoraging stomach ulcers and essentially shit their digested blood until they succomb. To compare, it's physically impossible to overdose on weed, and even toking multiple times daily has a negligible effect on one's health.
But I agree that politicians, as a impersonal whole, are a few clowns short a circus.
If there is probable cause, there's no issue with going through a court. If the NSA was going through a court for warrants like they should, that provides judicial oversight of the executive branch, a necessary check-and-balance. If the NSA can do whatever the fuck they like, our government lacks transparency and there is no balance of powers -- facism results, as we can readily see.
It doesn't matter *who* is being watched, or why. What matters is that we Americans are being spied upon on a widespread basis without warrants, which is a fundamental violation of the rights of all Americans.
Terrorism itself is the a non-issue. One major terrorist attack, five years ago, killed almost 3000. Aspirin kills over 10000 people yearly by painful hemmoraging stomach ulcers, and no one even gives a shit. We should be focusing on real problems, real threats to American lives, rather than swallowing the bullshit propaganda our government and media systems alike publish.
Microwave ovens use 2.45GHz; I say, that's close enough to 2.40GHz to reckon that you're cooking yourself alive. That's why I ran away from home and started my life in Montana, away from the scourges of technology.
AMD presents rather firm evidence that Intel does indeed engage in monopolistic practices, if you'd RTFA rather than issue a reactive Spew. The disgusting and abhorrent thing is the fashion in which Intel has been manipulating the market for years; it's high time that AMD aim to seek justice in the matter.
Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow, the owner of Cosmos Studios and the funder of the project, informed me in a conversation several months ago that should this attempt fail, the Planetary Society would be lacking in funds for another attempt, and that Cosmos Studios is financially unable to fund another attempt, either. So someone else would have to foot the bill for another go at solar sails.
If debris hits the sails, the debris will merely rip a hole. The mylar is not polymerized such that the enitre sail will be torn apart; only the area receiving direct impact will be affected. Given the minute dimensions of debris likely to be encountered, there should be no problem on this mission.
As the solar sail travels the solar system, it would slowly accellerate, reaching approximately 0.1c exiting the system, according to Carl Sagan's wife, who is funding the project.
The sail ideally will reach 0.1c exiting the solar system. After that point, the sail does ditttysquat and can be removed from the craft the sail is bearing. Combining solar sails with conventional space manuvering systems isn't all that difficult; this would allow all the steering one would like.
As the sail would approach another star, the sail would slow if both sides of the sail were mirrored. This would merely mean that were we traveling to another star, we could actually stop rather than keep on going. Doesn't that kinda sound handy at all?
planetary.org is the Planetary Society, the people who are, you know, launching the sail. As the sail the Society is launching will be the first solar sail, you won't find any government solar sails.
Central authority is not necessary for a communist economy, as modern Argentina shows. Much of Argentina's labor is completely self-managed; no central power, and contrary to capitalist economists' predictions, little abuse of the system. Since Argentina's economy collapsed in 2001, a large number of factories and farms have turned to anarcho-communism to solve the financial problems the government has proven itself incapable of fixing.
Communism can work, and in Argentina, anarcho-communism is doing wonders for those who accept it. To say that communism needs a planned economy is incorrect; the rest of your argument falls apart after that.
Capitalist anarchists tend to be teenaged, the progeny of well-to-do suburban parents, and almost always settle into the traditional parties as they age. Of course, this is not universal; there are exceptions. I'm just sayin' that the majority of your hardcore activist anarchists are communist, and the only folk you find in the occasional anarchist commune are, you know, communist.
I made a point of Argentina, as currently a large portion of the industry is owned and self-managed by the anarcho-communist union laborers who work in said industry. Also, about a third of the population currently ignores the official government, and instead participate in local meetings to decide local affairs. Some of these assemblies offer socialized education and healthcare - quite an accomplishment, in my eyes.
Oh, so you mean that if an application turns out differently in practice than in theory, we can change definition of the name of the theory to match the product of the application?
By that strand of logic, democracy is mob rule (see France, c. 1790), anarchism is ideal communism (see current countryside Argentinian industry), and Catholicism is a form of execution (Spain, 1481).
Communism has never been instituted as designed in practice. There have been attempts at communism, but every attempt to establish a communist nation has been foiled by power-hungry buzzards like the leadership of the Bolshevik party, who lost their communist nature before 1920.
No communist state has existed; there has been failed attempts and the hangovers of failed attempts, but no communism.
Stalin's regime was totalitarian with a planned economy; not communist. Fidel Castro runs a friendly socialist dictatorship; not communist. Mao garnered rural support and instituted a bastardized communal economy with rampant corruption and a nefarious overbearing government; still not communist.
Instead of trying to redefine 'communism' as you see fit, why don't you describe regimes according to their true nature?
Fascistic socialism is just communism. Have you even read Marx? Communism is an economic system in which the people themselves collectively own the means of production; communism is *NOT* the strict authoritarian regimes you've come to know and hate. Fascistic socialism is Fascism. Communal ownership of factories and fields is Communism. I have no-the-fuck idea where you pulled *your* definition of communism from, but it sure wasn't from Marx, nor any valid political scientist.
I'm looking for a BBS on which I can play me some Trade Wars Gold or standard Trade Wars 2002. Does anyone know of a good telnet BBS to which I can connect my poor self?
Distribute warez by jumping from network to network?
Or maybe use it as a sort of bridging point between a windows network and a linux network?
Or if one needs to steal corporate data -- fast?
Or to set up a local server without having it be a pain in the neck?
I think we need to see more of this sort of thing. Not only do network drives allow for easy transferring of data, but having a drive that can be easily moved from network to network has vast possibilities. Albeit, many of those possibilities lie in the realm of warez...
http://www.snapappliance.com/ is the company's website -- one might get more info out of it than the listed source. I visited as soon as the link went up and it was a slow load.
Queue in the Grey Goo theorists. Personally, it's probably be to humanities benefit to be turned into a nanomechanic slop if we're irresponsible enough to make this buggers self-replicate without a suicide switch.
So, it is the students responsibility to learn. I'm fine with that. However, it is also the teacher's responsibilty to teach. And being that their responsibility, teachers find a method of teaching which they along can define. The problem with this is that a teacher's method of teacher combined with even the most ambitious student will fail if the student is merely unaided by that method or the method simply doesn't click with the student. For example, a U.S. History teacher I had based one's grade on a presentation delivered in the form of a web page. He demanded quotes, charts , text, and other forms of information be used to satisfy a simple object. How to do this how he wanted was all we covered in class, for the most part. I, however, do not crunch statistics well. Thus I was left with wasted class time everyday while my grade depended on how I fabricated history based upon the statistics I failed to manipulate in a productive fashion. I consistantly scored C's, although I sometimes put as much as ten hours a of work week in that subject. With other history teachers I never scored below an A. Education is not a brute-force method -- square pegs will not fit in round holes unless the pegs are much too small.
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On the Gameboy version, winning Game B, level 9, 5 high results in a ending sequence. First, a bunch of dancers and musicians perform for you, then you watch a shuttle launch.
In Game A, attaining certain high scores is rewarded with smaller spacecraft launches, started with a puny probe and going up in size to some moderately impressing rockets.
Please note the "for that reason" clause.
Non-smokers develop lung cancer at a rate of about 7 people per 100000.
Smokers develop lung cancer at a rate of 24 people per 100000.
As you can see, smoking increasing one's chances of lung cancer by 350%. However, you would have to be an idiot to think that smoking should be avoided for that reason: 99.975% of all smokers never develop lung cancer. Additionally, the majority of smokers who develop lung cancer do not die prematurely.
Secondly, most drugs are completely safe when used responsibly, even hard drugs like coke and meth. Yes, people fuck themselves up with drugs, and they fuck themselves up terribly, even killing themselves on occasion. However, the vast, vast majority of drug users never have a problem. Tests of sewage systems in Prague have shown that actual coke use is more than three times greater than anti-drug 'authorities' estimate based upon the rehab population.
What's more, there are some illegal drugs that are completely harmless. Cannabis, for example. If you've listened to the government and think marijuana does nasty shit, look as the Netherlands, where cannabis is effectively legal. The Dutch have maintained their standing internationally, and cannabis use in Holland has decreased since legalization.
Aspirin kills 10,000 people a year; users develop painful, hemmoraging stomach ulcers and essentially shit their digested blood until they succomb. To compare, it's physically impossible to overdose on weed, and even toking multiple times daily has a negligible effect on one's health.
But I agree that politicians, as a impersonal whole, are a few clowns short a circus.
If there is probable cause, there's no issue with going through a court. If the NSA was going through a court for warrants like they should, that provides judicial oversight of the executive branch, a necessary check-and-balance. If the NSA can do whatever the fuck they like, our government lacks transparency and there is no balance of powers -- facism results, as we can readily see. It doesn't matter *who* is being watched, or why. What matters is that we Americans are being spied upon on a widespread basis without warrants, which is a fundamental violation of the rights of all Americans. Terrorism itself is the a non-issue. One major terrorist attack, five years ago, killed almost 3000. Aspirin kills over 10000 people yearly by painful hemmoraging stomach ulcers, and no one even gives a shit. We should be focusing on real problems, real threats to American lives, rather than swallowing the bullshit propaganda our government and media systems alike publish.
One word: Monopoly.
I don't know how it is down South now with telcoms, but when I lived in Tennessee, BellSouth was the only option we had in terms of phone service.
Microwave ovens use 2.45GHz; I say, that's close enough to 2.40GHz to reckon that you're cooking yourself alive. That's why I ran away from home and started my life in Montana, away from the scourges of technology.
not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. not disbelieving that Linux couldn't not possibly not uncontain not Unix code?
AMD presents rather firm evidence that Intel does indeed engage in monopolistic practices, if you'd RTFA rather than issue a reactive Spew. The disgusting and abhorrent thing is the fashion in which Intel has been manipulating the market for years; it's high time that AMD aim to seek justice in the matter.
Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow, the owner of Cosmos Studios and the funder of the project, informed me in a conversation several months ago that should this attempt fail, the Planetary Society would be lacking in funds for another attempt, and that Cosmos Studios is financially unable to fund another attempt, either. So someone else would have to foot the bill for another go at solar sails.
If debris hits the sails, the debris will merely rip a hole. The mylar is not polymerized such that the enitre sail will be torn apart; only the area receiving direct impact will be affected. Given the minute dimensions of debris likely to be encountered, there should be no problem on this mission.
As the solar sail travels the solar system, it would slowly accellerate, reaching approximately 0.1c exiting the system, according to Carl Sagan's wife, who is funding the project.
The sail ideally will reach 0.1c exiting the solar system. After that point, the sail does ditttysquat and can be removed from the craft the sail is bearing. Combining solar sails with conventional space manuvering systems isn't all that difficult; this would allow all the steering one would like.
As the sail would approach another star, the sail would slow if both sides of the sail were mirrored. This would merely mean that were we traveling to another star, we could actually stop rather than keep on going. Doesn't that kinda sound handy at all?
planetary.org is the Planetary Society, the people who are, you know, launching the sail. As the sail the Society is launching will be the first solar sail, you won't find any government solar sails.
Central authority is not necessary for a communist economy, as modern Argentina shows. Much of Argentina's labor is completely self-managed; no central power, and contrary to capitalist economists' predictions, little abuse of the system. Since Argentina's economy collapsed in 2001, a large number of factories and farms have turned to anarcho-communism to solve the financial problems the government has proven itself incapable of fixing. Communism can work, and in Argentina, anarcho-communism is doing wonders for those who accept it. To say that communism needs a planned economy is incorrect; the rest of your argument falls apart after that.
Capitalist anarchists tend to be teenaged, the progeny of well-to-do suburban parents, and almost always settle into the traditional parties as they age. Of course, this is not universal; there are exceptions. I'm just sayin' that the majority of your hardcore activist anarchists are communist, and the only folk you find in the occasional anarchist commune are, you know, communist.
I made a point of Argentina, as currently a large portion of the industry is owned and self-managed by the anarcho-communist union laborers who work in said industry. Also, about a third of the population currently ignores the official government, and instead participate in local meetings to decide local affairs. Some of these assemblies offer socialized education and healthcare - quite an accomplishment, in my eyes.
Oh, so you mean that if an application turns out differently in practice than in theory, we can change definition of the name of the theory to match the product of the application?
By that strand of logic, democracy is mob rule (see France, c. 1790), anarchism is ideal communism (see current countryside Argentinian industry), and Catholicism is a form of execution (Spain, 1481).
Communism has never been instituted as designed in practice. There have been attempts at communism, but every attempt to establish a communist nation has been foiled by power-hungry buzzards like the leadership of the Bolshevik party, who lost their communist nature before 1920.
No communist state has existed; there has been failed attempts and the hangovers of failed attempts, but no communism.
Stalin's regime was totalitarian with a planned economy; not communist. Fidel Castro runs a friendly socialist dictatorship; not communist. Mao garnered rural support and instituted a bastardized communal economy with rampant corruption and a nefarious overbearing government; still not communist.
Instead of trying to redefine 'communism' as you see fit, why don't you describe regimes according to their true nature?
Fascistic socialism is just communism.
Have you even read Marx? Communism is an economic system in which the people themselves collectively own the means of production; communism is *NOT* the strict authoritarian regimes you've come to know and hate. Fascistic socialism is Fascism. Communal ownership of factories and fields is Communism. I have no-the-fuck idea where you pulled *your* definition of communism from, but it sure wasn't from Marx, nor any valid political scientist.
I'm looking for a BBS on which I can play me some Trade Wars Gold or standard Trade Wars 2002. Does anyone know of a good telnet BBS to which I can connect my poor self?
The same way you know you've cooked your ramen for three minutes..?
One action aims to stop jamming, the other aims to jam.
We Gnome users must be like a privledged under class in FC2, eh?
Distribute warez by jumping from network to network? Or maybe use it as a sort of bridging point between a windows network and a linux network? Or if one needs to steal corporate data -- fast? Or to set up a local server without having it be a pain in the neck?
I think we need to see more of this sort of thing. Not only do network drives allow for easy transferring of data, but having a drive that can be easily moved from network to network has vast possibilities. Albeit, many of those possibilities lie in the realm of warez...
http://www.snapappliance.com/ is the company's website -- one might get more info out of it than the listed source. I visited as soon as the link went up and it was a slow load.
Queue in the Grey Goo theorists. Personally, it's probably be to humanities benefit to be turned into a nanomechanic slop if we're irresponsible enough to make this buggers self-replicate without a suicide switch.
So, it is the students responsibility to learn. I'm fine with that. However, it is also the teacher's responsibilty to teach. And being that their responsibility, teachers find a method of teaching which they along can define. The problem with this is that a teacher's method of teacher combined with even the most ambitious student will fail if the student is merely unaided by that method or the method simply doesn't click with the student. For example, a U.S. History teacher I had based one's grade on a presentation delivered in the form of a web page. He demanded quotes, charts , text, and other forms of information be used to satisfy a simple object. How to do this how he wanted was all we covered in class, for the most part. I, however, do not crunch statistics well. Thus I was left with wasted class time everyday while my grade depended on how I fabricated history based upon the statistics I failed to manipulate in a productive fashion. I consistantly scored C's, although I sometimes put as much as ten hours a of work week in that subject. With other history teachers I never scored below an A. Education is not a brute-force method -- square pegs will not fit in round holes unless the pegs are much too small.