I never played with the Borg turned on. It was possible (and even a fun challenge) to take them on but the AI was wholly incapable of fighting them and they would usually ruin the game by destroying all of your AI adversaries before coming after you. Not a lot of fun playing a game by yourself with a slew of depopulated planets and Borg cubes running all over the place.
I doubt it will ever happen either. Most of the new Trek games are glorified shoot-em-ups. Nobody bothers to tell a good story (ever play 'A Final Unity'?) or base a game around pure strategy (BOTF) anymore.
... I'd love to see somebody get the license from Paramount to release an updated version of Birth of the Federation. It was basically Civ2 for the Star Trek TNG universe. I absolutely loved that game.
Says who? I've never seen latency on an overseas link that would approach satellite levels. Except for extremely remote areas most of the internet backbone is based on fiber, even for oceanic crossings.
Umm, I agree with everything else you said, but this comment is a bit of a reach. Pennsylvania has rich energy reserves. New York and Pennsylvania both have decent agricultural sectors and could easily be self-sufficient in food production. Heck, the only reason they aren't is because of the market distorting effects of subsidies to the corn belt and the factory farming of California and the South. Natural resources are trickier but that's where trade comes in. The US isn't self-sufficient in many of them anyway even with all 50 states.
The West has problems that the Northeast will never have to contend with. Water availability for starters. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept that you could ever run out of water (the joke around these parts is that the Northeast is a rain forest with snow and no malaria) but that's a very real danger for some of the Western states that have experienced population explosions. Lake Mead is at <40% of capacity and still dropping. Evidence now suggests that the Colorado River Compact was based on abnormally high rain levels and the recent "drought" is actually a return to normalcy.
They also waste absurd amounts of water simply trying to emulate the East. When I visited Utah and Nevada I couldn't get over how much water I saw being used simply to keep the lawns green. Will people still want to live in such locales if that ceases to be viable and their little slice of suburbia is reclaimed by the desert?
Stop repeating this lie. The US does not have a "two party" system. You are perfectly free to vote for any third party candidate you want. Don't think third party candidates can have an impact on the electoral system? Just ask Al Gore....
Ray, do you know if any of the people who got RIAA judgments issued against them tried to file bankruptcy? I'm wondering if RIAA would be able to get the BK court to sustain the Judgment and refuse to let them discharge such a debt or if this would be a feasible way out for someone who can't afford to keep fighting them.
If the 'state' has any interests other than the will of the people as expressed by popular vote, then it hasn't been architected properly
If the state's only consideration is the "will of the people" then it isn't structured properly. Presumably you've heard of the tyranny of the majority and believe in upholding the civil rights of unpopular minorities, right?
I'm not sure about private parking violations/where that money goes
No where if you don't pay it. A private company can't revoke your plates or suspend your drivers license. Why the hell would you pay such a fine?
I got a private parking ticket from some outfit that did parking for NJ Transit once upon a time. Ripped it into little pieces and mailed it back to them. Got a collection notice -- ripped that into little pieces and sent it back to them as well. Never heard anything more about it.
I'll grant you the point on kelvin but why would -272C be any better than -460F? Celsius is every bit as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. Kelvin is somewhat better but probably not as practical for day to day use.
Deliberately dumping used motor oil is a crime. Having it spill out of your car onto the pavement because a gasket fails is not a crime, though you may still be required to pay clean-up costs.
Yeah, they are pretty amazing and spunky little dogs. My Grandfather got her for me when I told him about my rat problem. He got her directly from a breeder that had come to the states from Germany and knew the proper way to raise and train them. First time we brought her home we opened up a cabinet, watched her bolt inside and come out with a dead rat less than a minute later. That dog was never happier than when she was chasing and killing vermin.
She's the only dog that I ever saw kill a skunk without getting sprayed too. Of course it rained the next day and she went outside and rolled all over the dead body. The only smell that's worse than skunk is dead skunk combined with wet dog....
Besides, I don't care that they mod me down. Got lots of karma to burn. I only care that the dipshit who is hurling insults isn't being modded down along with the rest of us.
I'm looking forward to seeing the place. Promised my friend who lives down there I'd come after Katrina and spend some tourist dollars but never got around to it until this year. Better late than never I suppose. She wanted me to come out in July but I'm a born-and-bread Yankee and would not do well in the summer NOLA climate.
I shot a porch raccoon with my.45 once upon a time. It had taken up residence under my stairs and hissed at me when I tried to walk into my apartment. Apparently it was unaware of it's position in the food chain and decided to challenge an animal with ten times it's weight and opposable thumbs. Ever seen what a 230 grain JHP.45 slug does to a raccoon?.45 caliber entry wound, baseball sized exit wound. At least it died quickly;)
The.38 was my first thought as well but my revolver was inside the house and I didn't want to try and walk past the thing. As it turned out I didn't have any.38 special on hand anyway. Could have used a.357 but that would have been even more overkill than the.45
Only been to FL once and that was in the tourist trap (Orlando) part of the state. Don't recall seeing it on any menus but I wasn't looking for it at the time either. I'm going to NOLA next month. I ought to be able to find it there I suspect.
Are you allowed to hunt them or are they protected year round?
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I never played with the Borg turned on. It was possible (and even a fun challenge) to take them on but the AI was wholly incapable of fighting them and they would usually ruin the game by destroying all of your AI adversaries before coming after you. Not a lot of fun playing a game by yourself with a slew of depopulated planets and Borg cubes running all over the place.
I doubt it will ever happen either. Most of the new Trek games are glorified shoot-em-ups. Nobody bothers to tell a good story (ever play 'A Final Unity'?) or base a game around pure strategy (BOTF) anymore.
... I'd love to see somebody get the license from Paramount to release an updated version of Birth of the Federation. It was basically Civ2 for the Star Trek TNG universe. I absolutely loved that game.
Now I have to grow out my man-boobs
See, if you were an American you would already have them ;)
Says who? I've never seen latency on an overseas link that would approach satellite levels. Except for extremely remote areas most of the internet backbone is based on fiber, even for oceanic crossings.
With network traffic, it's the reverse; longer hauls are more likely to go to satellite
Huh?
but the North East is boned.
Umm, I agree with everything else you said, but this comment is a bit of a reach. Pennsylvania has rich energy reserves. New York and Pennsylvania both have decent agricultural sectors and could easily be self-sufficient in food production. Heck, the only reason they aren't is because of the market distorting effects of subsidies to the corn belt and the factory farming of California and the South. Natural resources are trickier but that's where trade comes in. The US isn't self-sufficient in many of them anyway even with all 50 states.
The West has problems that the Northeast will never have to contend with. Water availability for starters. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept that you could ever run out of water (the joke around these parts is that the Northeast is a rain forest with snow and no malaria) but that's a very real danger for some of the Western states that have experienced population explosions. Lake Mead is at <40% of capacity and still dropping. Evidence now suggests that the Colorado River Compact was based on abnormally high rain levels and the recent "drought" is actually a return to normalcy.
They also waste absurd amounts of water simply trying to emulate the East. When I visited Utah and Nevada I couldn't get over how much water I saw being used simply to keep the lawns green. Will people still want to live in such locales if that ceases to be viable and their little slice of suburbia is reclaimed by the desert?
Stop repeating this lie. The US does not have a "two party" system. You are perfectly free to vote for any third party candidate you want. Don't think third party candidates can have an impact on the electoral system? Just ask Al Gore....
In one case a friend's parents had to vote for the last president or the university they worked for would have fired them.
Everybody might want to keep this example in mind the next time somebody tells us that we need voter verification built into our electoral system.....
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the point I made about it being arbitrary.
Of course, if you want to go by "will of the majority" it's worth noting that /. is an American site with a primarily American readership.....
Ray, do you know if any of the people who got RIAA judgments issued against them tried to file bankruptcy? I'm wondering if RIAA would be able to get the BK court to sustain the Judgment and refuse to let them discharge such a debt or if this would be a feasible way out for someone who can't afford to keep fighting them.
If the 'state' has any interests other than the will of the people as expressed by popular vote, then it hasn't been architected properly
If the state's only consideration is the "will of the people" then it isn't structured properly. Presumably you've heard of the tyranny of the majority and believe in upholding the civil rights of unpopular minorities, right?
I'm not sure about private parking violations/where that money goes
No where if you don't pay it. A private company can't revoke your plates or suspend your drivers license. Why the hell would you pay such a fine?
I got a private parking ticket from some outfit that did parking for NJ Transit once upon a time. Ripped it into little pieces and mailed it back to them. Got a collection notice -- ripped that into little pieces and sent it back to them as well. Never heard anything more about it.
impossible-to-avoid speed traps
You can avoid them by driving the speed limit. Problem solved.
maybe 1 Kelvin or -272C would be OK
I'll grant you the point on kelvin but why would -272C be any better than -460F? Celsius is every bit as arbitrary as Fahrenheit. Kelvin is somewhat better but probably not as practical for day to day use.
Just because you find the truth to be hurtful to your perceived manliness
I actually know more female gun owners than male gun owners. Sorry if that doesn't fit into your stereotyping.
and now you are exposed to the world with nothing left but your own shortcomings.
If all gun owners had the shortcomings that you ascribe to us you would have been murdered a long time ago.
One of these days you people will realize there's a difference between enemy combatants captured on foreign battlefields and more mundane criminals.
Cite the relevant criminal statute and prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. We don't throw people into prison in this country if you can't do that.
Deliberately dumping used motor oil is a crime. Having it spill out of your car onto the pavement because a gasket fails is not a crime, though you may still be required to pay clean-up costs.
Yeah, they are pretty amazing and spunky little dogs. My Grandfather got her for me when I told him about my rat problem. He got her directly from a breeder that had come to the states from Germany and knew the proper way to raise and train them. First time we brought her home we opened up a cabinet, watched her bolt inside and come out with a dead rat less than a minute later. That dog was never happier than when she was chasing and killing vermin.
She's the only dog that I ever saw kill a skunk without getting sprayed too. Of course it rained the next day and she went outside and rolled all over the dead body. The only smell that's worse than skunk is dead skunk combined with wet dog....
Prove that criminal laws were broken beyond a reasonable doubt and people will go to jail. Otherwise it's just political posturing.
It was implied pretty strongly in that episode that they hooked up.
It's idle. Everything is offtopic.
Besides, I don't care that they mod me down. Got lots of karma to burn. I only care that the dipshit who is hurling insults isn't being modded down along with the rest of us.
I'm looking forward to seeing the place. Promised my friend who lives down there I'd come after Katrina and spend some tourist dollars but never got around to it until this year. Better late than never I suppose. She wanted me to come out in July but I'm a born-and-bread Yankee and would not do well in the summer NOLA climate.
I shot a porch raccoon with my .45 once upon a time. It had taken up residence under my stairs and hissed at me when I tried to walk into my apartment. Apparently it was unaware of it's position in the food chain and decided to challenge an animal with ten times it's weight and opposable thumbs. Ever seen what a 230 grain JHP .45 slug does to a raccoon? .45 caliber entry wound, baseball sized exit wound. At least it died quickly ;)
The .38 was my first thought as well but my revolver was inside the house and I didn't want to try and walk past the thing. As it turned out I didn't have any .38 special on hand anyway. Could have used a .357 but that would have been even more overkill than the .45
Only been to FL once and that was in the tourist trap (Orlando) part of the state. Don't recall seeing it on any menus but I wasn't looking for it at the time either. I'm going to NOLA next month. I ought to be able to find it there I suspect.
Are you allowed to hunt them or are they protected year round?