What exactly do you mean when you say "be held responsible"? Are you hoping for public executions? BP CEO's heak on a pike, maybe?
If there was justice or a god, then actually yes. Yes 1000 times. They may have just participated in killing an entire ecosystem there spud, and are trying their damnedest to get away with JUST having to try and clean up the oil.
In other words, BP will be held responsible, in that they will pay for the cleanup.
No, they won't. They'll throw money at the leak until it's stopped or the government steps in and stops it. They'll pay some people $10 an hour (going on right now actually) to rake up oil and pick up oil blobs off the beaches. They'll pay people to run booms and pay to pump a shitload of dispersant into the oil so it doesn't look as bad. However, they won't ever really clean it up; it'll reach a point where it looks "okay", then give the affected areas a thumbs up for luck and then at most set up a small dedicated account to trickle funds into continued "clean up".
After they leave, the oil will still be there under rocks and quietly poisoning the ecosystem for decades. After Exxon spent about a $1 billion "cleaning" up the Valdez spill you can still go to the coast, kick over a rock, and see oil sheens. The whale population there is devastated and literally doomed to extinction, and pretty much all the top-tier predators are wiped out. Yeah, that's "clean" alright.
Obama's an amazing guy -- simultaneously to the left of Chairman Mao and to the right of Richard Nixon! He's everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time! Maybe he's mastered that quantum teleportation technique from the other article.
Don't be dumb. The narrative supplied by the right-wing media and the reality can actually exist at once you know. Obama is right of Nixon; so was Clinton. That's not terrible per-se but don't think for an instant that Obama isn't a squishy centrist and beholden to the same corporate lobbyists Clinton/Bush Sr/Bush Jr/etc were even if he isn't in DIRECT business with them.
You sound like someone trying to defend their own apathy. After all, if there's no hope, then you are cleared of all responsibility for ever doing anything. Nice gig if you can avoid suicide.
No, I just actually have good pattern recognition skills. You can rake oil, wash birds, run boom, and excise (read: burn) affected marshes to attempt to limit the damage but a good portion of the end damage is utterly unavoidable.
If you honestly think BP will pay for anything but their own efforts to deal with the spill (i.e. punitive damages to the hundreds of thousands/millions of people this will harm, actual regulations that will be enforced to prevent this bullshit from happening again, etc), you're delusional.
Trust me, I don't want to be right. I'm just going to be.
No one will ever be held responsible for this. Ever. Not now, not ever. Ever ever ever.
BP will pay whatever it ends up costing them to "fix" the spill, or whatever it costs up to the point the government has to take over if that ends up being the case. The government (or at least the people in the senate and house who make any public statements regarding this) won't want to seem like idiots so they'll defend BP's stonewalling and ridiculously low damage estimates. Obama is a completely worthless shill to the right of Richard Nixon and will do nothing.
Then BP will appeal any and all personal liability related lawsuits to the supreme court where in a 5-4 decision (get used to hearing this for the rest of your life) the punitive damages will be thrown out, or dropped and sent back to the lower courts (like what happened with the Exxon Valdez spill) where it will be appealed until the affected people settle for pennies or drop the case since they won't live long enough or have enough money to see it out to the end.
Nothing ever changes, rich people never suffer, and again no one will ever be punished for it. There is literally no hope, and that's not even a joke. There seriously isn't.
It's guess corporations and politicians have started to see the futility in trying to edit Wikipedia to their choosing, so now it's time to move on to outright destruction.
And hey, it looks like there's a petty closet case with inside access that could be usable!
Maybe we would save a lot of dupes and bandwidth by reporting what markets Apple isn't on the way to dominating according to some retarded at a random blog.
Only on Slashdot would Apple not share in any of the responsibility for this kind of thing. It's the old double standard.
If Microsoft had a factory in China producing their likely god-awful Zune thing, and the same thing occured, it would no doubt be because MICROSOFT WANTS CHINESE PEOPLE DEAD IN THE NAME OF PROFIT.
The only reason I bothered to read this article and be subjected to the traditional Apple love-fest that follows is because I saw the story title in my RSS reader and thought it was about their programmers, not the sweatshop labor making their shit products.
Like any of these kids honestly understand what's involved in military deployment or war.
Predator drones were originally used just for recon, and they ended up being weaponized. We've killed a lot of bad people in various places with them, without risking a single soldier's life and I imagine with much fewer (if any, I don't recall predators being used to blast a lot of stuff outside of transports) civilian casualties than had we hit it with traditional weaponry or our own armor.
Of course, while this is true, I will inevitably be nitpicked by someone dumb enough to argue "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY BAD PEOPLE"...when the fact remains that it saved lives, even if it was those soldiers we're so quick to demonize in braindead moral rage. It just shows how much they don't get it.
Then stick with playing consoles then. Nothing wrong with that, considering the current gen consoles have excellent libraries, are cheap, and (most of) the hardware bugs have been worked out.
I dunno what everyone whines about in regards to graphics cards. I went bleeding edge when I built my current rig about 3-4 years ago. Back then, the fastest thing on the market was the Radeon 9800XT, so I got one of those. Cost an ungodly amount ($450 or so from newegg), but it ran everything extremely well right up until right now funny enough. I knew I needed an upgrade when Call of Duty 2 and F.E.A.R. wouldn't run at playable framerates at anything but 800x600 or 640x480 with the graphics turned down.
I dropped $270 on a BFG GeForce 6800GTOC (thank you rebates. I could've gotten another brand for cheaper, but BFG cards come pre-overclocked with a lifetime warranty. Can't beat that), and I'm right back up to speed again. I got my money's worth out of the 9800XT, and I'm going to continue to do so since I plan on building a new rig early on next year, and that 9800XT will do just fine in a LAN-Party/Server/backup box that will result from the leftover parts of my current rig.
The Dreamcast was a financial failure and caused Sega to get out of the hardware business. Sorry.
Were some of the games very good? Oh hell yes. I played the shit out of Phantasy Star Online 1/2 (before cheaters ruined it), Soul Calibur, Skies of Arcadia, and Jet Set Radio. Uh, that was about it though.
Being mad at Sony for having better sales and in the end a much better game selection just proves you're a fanboy. That "mediocrity" comment will provide me with a chuckle or two when I'm playing Shadow of the Collosus, Devil May Cry 3, Ico (for the 10th time), Metal Gear Solid 3, Fatal Frame 1/2, Silent Hill 2/3/4, God of War, Ace Combat 4/5, etc. etc.
Would've been greater had they spent the time to finish out the office building's scripted scenes so they didn't have to change some character roles and hack the story up into bits easy enough to digest via lots and lots of voicemail.
Worst scares for me? (Spoilers ahead naturally.)
Seriously, spoilers.
*The first time a vision of Fettel's victims flashes in your eyes.
*The early Alma attack that sends you flying out of the warehouse window.
*Alma surprising you from behind in the sewer access area early on. When you hear her laugh and turn around ot see her dart out of sight behind a corner.
*"STAY OUT OF MY WAY."
*The now semi-infamous ladder scene. EXCELLENT use (or abuse) of your visual range.
*Alma crawling after you in one of the crawlspaces. I about fell out of my chair.
*Watching Fettel wander down a hallway on a video screen, only to see Alma pop up.
*Funny enough, most of the times when you get the tell-tale *UNKNOWN SOURCE* static, and nothing happens outside of lights flickering.
*Some of the longer, more intense hallucinations.
*The ending. No, not the kinda lame ghost battle. The copter.
I tend to only build a new box every 2-3 years. I go bleeding edge on most every component, and my system can run every new title at high settings damn near until the time I usually end up building a new one 2-3 years later. The bonus is that I don't usually have to open my system up for anything but cleaning the whole time.
The people who are advocating popular aviation usage (and it's not just Moller) have given this a lot of thought. Infinitely more than you gave before posting your piss poor opinion.
which is why I just saw 10 skycars fly past my house today on the way to the grocery store.
They don't rely on a big central computer, for one. They rely on people mostly flying on their own, with separation assistance from ATC and the fact that the sky offers so much space and so many opportunities for routes that the total capacity is huge. Current air-to-air collisions usually occur in the cogested airspace of an airport, and between low-tech airplanes without traffic information. The idea for popular flying (as envisioned by NASA) involves every airplane having a display showing the location of every other airplane in real-time. Furthermore, with VTOL machines like the skycar, there is no need for airports and the points of congestion they create. En route, there is so much airspace out there you could have every American flying at once and they could still have miles of separation.
Until you take the inevitable airspace restrictions that would result in these things becoming popular. I'm sure local/state/federal government wouldn't be too hot on the idea of civilians flying large numbers of aircars in/around/over major metro areas regardless of how much free space there was for them to not hit eachother. The first time someone's aircar suffers enough critical failures to crash into a residential area or skyscraper at 350MPH would probably be the last, even though it took a million-to-one freak accident for it to occur.
As for my statement about 2D highways and nobody crashing: my point was that we are able to 'see and avoid' in the confined space of a highway, where everybody is forced to the same altitude, without a central computer. Why would you think we'd need a central computer to keep us separated when in the LESS restrictive environment of 3D airspace, where you'd have an extra dimension (really an extra two) to work with to avoid people? The issues is making flying as intuitive as driving a car, and making information about the location of other aircraft available to the pilot (it's not today, in most cases). People are working on it, and the fact that air-to-air collisions exist with the 60s era technology used in private aviation today is not cogent. Your ignorant alarmism really wasn't very helpful in the discussion, and your tantrum at the end of your last message wasn't very impressive.
...You do know that there are about 6-6.5 million vehicle accidents a year right? 50,000+ deaths? On the same "confined 2d space" we're talking about? In vehicles with crumple zones, side-impact bars, air-bags, seat belts, antilock brakes, and average speeds of 40-50MPH? "More space" is going to stop the sleepy, drug/drink impaired, angry, unskilled, or simply unlucky drivers of the world from causing accidents?
I'd love to see civilian flight become popular and safe as much as anyone else. No traffic? The ability to visit family and friends that live miles away in a fraction of the time? To potentially work in one state and live in another without an agonizing commute? Sign me up. I just don't see it happening as litigious and alarmist (yeah, I know, irony considering what I'm posting) as the general public is.
People do it all the time. It's easier to fly at 200 MPH than drive at 40. Trust me. There's a lot less to hit in the sky. Under ATC, you're miles away from the nearest thing at your altitude. Remember, you're taking the people from a 2D surface and putting them in a 3D sky. A whole new dimension opens up in which to separate people. There's tons of sky. They're not going to be as stupid as you are and assume everybody will just stick to the same routes and altitude, like they did on the Jetsons.
There's a lot less to hit until there are a lot of people using these things, which is what the creator wants. Mid-air collisions and crashes occur with regular planes now, and you think this guy's vision of the general public flying everywhere won't increase that number? But hey, thanks for calling me stupid, asshole.
Why would an ATC failure crash every airplane? We drive on a 2D highway with other cars and nobody crashes.
Holy shit, why did I even bother? You're obviously fucking retarded. Jesus Christ. Get off the internet.
Well, never in terms of our lifetimes and probably a couple more lifetimes after that.
For flying cars to ever work you'd need insane amounts of safety systems for every kind of failure. We're talking backup systems for the backup systems that backup the backup systems.
You'd also need central traffic network computers to control them, because there's no way in hell the vast majority of the population could fly something at 100MPH with any safety. You think a fender bender is bad? Wait until it also makes you fall 200 feet out of the sky.
And don't try to imagine the death and devestation the first time the traffic system fails (insert "lol crash" jokes here).
Of course, anyone can figure all this out pretty easily. I'm being over-critical.
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What exactly do you mean when you say "be held responsible"? Are you hoping for public executions? BP CEO's heak on a pike, maybe?
If there was justice or a god, then actually yes. Yes 1000 times. They may have just participated in killing an entire ecosystem there spud, and are trying their damnedest to get away with JUST having to try and clean up the oil.
In other words, BP will be held responsible, in that they will pay for the cleanup.
No, they won't. They'll throw money at the leak until it's stopped or the government steps in and stops it. They'll pay some people $10 an hour (going on right now actually) to rake up oil and pick up oil blobs off the beaches. They'll pay people to run booms and pay to pump a shitload of dispersant into the oil so it doesn't look as bad. However, they won't ever really clean it up; it'll reach a point where it looks "okay", then give the affected areas a thumbs up for luck and then at most set up a small dedicated account to trickle funds into continued "clean up".
After they leave, the oil will still be there under rocks and quietly poisoning the ecosystem for decades. After Exxon spent about a $1 billion "cleaning" up the Valdez spill you can still go to the coast, kick over a rock, and see oil sheens. The whale population there is devastated and literally doomed to extinction, and pretty much all the top-tier predators are wiped out. Yeah, that's "clean" alright.
Obama's an amazing guy -- simultaneously to the left of Chairman Mao and to the right of Richard Nixon! He's everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time! Maybe he's mastered that quantum teleportation technique from the other article.
Don't be dumb. The narrative supplied by the right-wing media and the reality can actually exist at once you know. Obama is right of Nixon; so was Clinton. That's not terrible per-se but don't think for an instant that Obama isn't a squishy centrist and beholden to the same corporate lobbyists Clinton/Bush Sr/Bush Jr/etc were even if he isn't in DIRECT business with them.
You sound like someone trying to defend their own apathy. After all, if there's no hope, then you are cleared of all responsibility for ever doing anything. Nice gig if you can avoid suicide.
No, I just actually have good pattern recognition skills. You can rake oil, wash birds, run boom, and excise (read: burn) affected marshes to attempt to limit the damage but a good portion of the end damage is utterly unavoidable.
If you honestly think BP will pay for anything but their own efforts to deal with the spill (i.e. punitive damages to the hundreds of thousands/millions of people this will harm, actual regulations that will be enforced to prevent this bullshit from happening again, etc), you're delusional.
Trust me, I don't want to be right. I'm just going to be.
No one will ever be held responsible for this. Ever. Not now, not ever. Ever ever ever.
BP will pay whatever it ends up costing them to "fix" the spill, or whatever it costs up to the point the government has to take over if that ends up being the case. The government (or at least the people in the senate and house who make any public statements regarding this) won't want to seem like idiots so they'll defend BP's stonewalling and ridiculously low damage estimates. Obama is a completely worthless shill to the right of Richard Nixon and will do nothing.
Then BP will appeal any and all personal liability related lawsuits to the supreme court where in a 5-4 decision (get used to hearing this for the rest of your life) the punitive damages will be thrown out, or dropped and sent back to the lower courts (like what happened with the Exxon Valdez spill) where it will be appealed until the affected people settle for pennies or drop the case since they won't live long enough or have enough money to see it out to the end.
Nothing ever changes, rich people never suffer, and again no one will ever be punished for it. There is literally no hope, and that's not even a joke. There seriously isn't.
It's guess corporations and politicians have started to see the futility in trying to edit Wikipedia to their choosing, so now it's time to move on to outright destruction. And hey, it looks like there's a petty closet case with inside access that could be usable!
Maybe we would save a lot of dupes and bandwidth by reporting what markets Apple isn't on the way to dominating according to some retarded at a random blog.
Only on Slashdot would Apple not share in any of the responsibility for this kind of thing. It's the old double standard.
If Microsoft had a factory in China producing their likely god-awful Zune thing, and the same thing occured, it would no doubt be because MICROSOFT WANTS CHINESE PEOPLE DEAD IN THE NAME OF PROFIT.
The only reason I bothered to read this article and be subjected to the traditional Apple love-fest that follows is because I saw the story title in my RSS reader and thought it was about their programmers, not the sweatshop labor making their shit products.
Like any of these kids honestly understand what's involved in military deployment or war.
Predator drones were originally used just for recon, and they ended up being weaponized. We've killed a lot of bad people in various places with them, without risking a single soldier's life and I imagine with much fewer (if any, I don't recall predators being used to blast a lot of stuff outside of transports) civilian casualties than had we hit it with traditional weaponry or our own armor.
Of course, while this is true, I will inevitably be nitpicked by someone dumb enough to argue "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY BAD PEOPLE"...when the fact remains that it saved lives, even if it was those soldiers we're so quick to demonize in braindead moral rage. It just shows how much they don't get it.
Unless you're blind of course. Then you don't. You can still appreciate Yangus' English accent however.
As for MUDs, to each their own. I find them tremendously boring.
It's okay if your religion does fucked up stuff because *gasp* other more mainstream religions have done fucked up stuff too!
Your girlfriend must be a damn good lay.
Then stick with playing consoles then. Nothing wrong with that, considering the current gen consoles have excellent libraries, are cheap, and (most of) the hardware bugs have been worked out.
I dunno what everyone whines about in regards to graphics cards. I went bleeding edge when I built my current rig about 3-4 years ago. Back then, the fastest thing on the market was the Radeon 9800XT, so I got one of those. Cost an ungodly amount ($450 or so from newegg), but it ran everything extremely well right up until right now funny enough. I knew I needed an upgrade when Call of Duty 2 and F.E.A.R. wouldn't run at playable framerates at anything but 800x600 or 640x480 with the graphics turned down.
I dropped $270 on a BFG GeForce 6800GTOC (thank you rebates. I could've gotten another brand for cheaper, but BFG cards come pre-overclocked with a lifetime warranty. Can't beat that), and I'm right back up to speed again. I got my money's worth out of the 9800XT, and I'm going to continue to do so since I plan on building a new rig early on next year, and that 9800XT will do just fine in a LAN-Party/Server/backup box that will result from the leftover parts of my current rig.
Because you know, saying you like a game suddenly makes you a fanboy.
No, hating another system because you like games on another system is being a fanboy.
The Dreamcast was a financial failure and caused Sega to get out of the hardware business. Sorry.
Were some of the games very good? Oh hell yes. I played the shit out of Phantasy Star Online 1/2 (before cheaters ruined it), Soul Calibur, Skies of Arcadia, and Jet Set Radio. Uh, that was about it though.
Being mad at Sony for having better sales and in the end a much better game selection just proves you're a fanboy. That "mediocrity" comment will provide me with a chuckle or two when I'm playing Shadow of the Collosus, Devil May Cry 3, Ico (for the 10th time), Metal Gear Solid 3, Fatal Frame 1/2, Silent Hill 2/3/4, God of War, Ace Combat 4/5, etc. etc.
Would've been greater had they spent the time to finish out the office building's scripted scenes so they didn't have to change some character roles and hack the story up into bits easy enough to digest via lots and lots of voicemail.
Worst scares for me? (Spoilers ahead naturally.)
Seriously, spoilers.
*The first time a vision of Fettel's victims flashes in your eyes.
*The early Alma attack that sends you flying out of the warehouse window.
*Alma surprising you from behind in the sewer access area early on. When you hear her laugh and turn around ot see her dart out of sight behind a corner.
*"STAY OUT OF MY WAY."
*The now semi-infamous ladder scene. EXCELLENT use (or abuse) of your visual range.
*Alma crawling after you in one of the crawlspaces. I about fell out of my chair.
*Watching Fettel wander down a hallway on a video screen, only to see Alma pop up.
*Funny enough, most of the times when you get the tell-tale *UNKNOWN SOURCE* static, and nothing happens outside of lights flickering.
*Some of the longer, more intense hallucinations.
*The ending. No, not the kinda lame ghost battle. The copter.
Is a troll. Can anyone tell me what he did wrong though?
So far I count a distinct lack of insults towards nmb's parents, and not a single reference to his sexuality.
The professor of a Communications class I had once said this:
"In our line of work there is nothing more dangerous than an idiot with a backhoe and a good idea."
I tend to only build a new box every 2-3 years. I go bleeding edge on most every component, and my system can run every new title at high settings damn near until the time I usually end up building a new one 2-3 years later. The bonus is that I don't usually have to open my system up for anything but cleaning the whole time.
P.S. I call dibs on what stuff the FBI doesn't end up taking.
which is why I just saw 10 skycars fly past my house today on the way to the grocery store.
Until you take the inevitable airspace restrictions that would result in these things becoming popular. I'm sure local/state/federal government wouldn't be too hot on the idea of civilians flying large numbers of aircars in/around/over major metro areas regardless of how much free space there was for them to not hit eachother. The first time someone's aircar suffers enough critical failures to crash into a residential area or skyscraper at 350MPH would probably be the last, even though it took a million-to-one freak accident for it to occur.
...You do know that there are about 6-6.5 million vehicle accidents a year right? 50,000+ deaths? On the same "confined 2d space" we're talking about? In vehicles with crumple zones, side-impact bars, air-bags, seat belts, antilock brakes, and average speeds of 40-50MPH? "More space" is going to stop the sleepy, drug/drink impaired, angry, unskilled, or simply unlucky drivers of the world from causing accidents?
I'd love to see civilian flight become popular and safe as much as anyone else. No traffic? The ability to visit family and friends that live miles away in a fraction of the time? To potentially work in one state and live in another without an agonizing commute? Sign me up. I just don't see it happening as litigious and alarmist (yeah, I know, irony considering what I'm posting) as the general public is.
There's a lot less to hit until there are a lot of people using these things, which is what the creator wants. Mid-air collisions and crashes occur with regular planes now, and you think this guy's vision of the general public flying everywhere won't increase that number? But hey, thanks for calling me stupid, asshole.
Holy shit, why did I even bother? You're obviously fucking retarded. Jesus Christ. Get off the internet.
Well, never in terms of our lifetimes and probably a couple more lifetimes after that.
For flying cars to ever work you'd need insane amounts of safety systems for every kind of failure. We're talking backup systems for the backup systems that backup the backup systems.
You'd also need central traffic network computers to control them, because there's no way in hell the vast majority of the population could fly something at 100MPH with any safety. You think a fender bender is bad? Wait until it also makes you fall 200 feet out of the sky.
And don't try to imagine the death and devestation the first time the traffic system fails (insert "lol crash" jokes here).
Of course, anyone can figure all this out pretty easily. I'm being over-critical.
I was actually curious. :P
So, where do all the waste products go after the cells are exploded or rendered sterile? Out via #1 and #2?
The nature of the hypochondriac is that no diagnosis is ever good enough.
"Well, maybe I administered the test wrong...I'll just go back to the store and get a few more so I can try again...then I'll call my doctor..."
I'm definitely not an expert, but say eventually cancer destroying nano-machines are created.
How could you control their reproduction so that they don't clog your veins or saturate your organs?
I wonder when we'll be able to buy over the counter cancer tests? We're pretty much there for HIV.
We're already a society of hypochondriacs. Imagine if you could test yourself at home for every devestating disease there is.
Of course, I'm getting a ahead of myself. Early detection is the best defense. If this is as good as they say it is, it could save a LOT of lives.
Remember, Apple can do no wrong.