How about energy? Or even something completely different, and about as likely as invisible matter. And it really is invisible, right? If it merely didn't relfect light, it should at least be able to block it (think eclipse).
While I know it won't make me popular here, personally I don't mind if terrorists' rights are trampled. My problem is that the terror suspects' rights are trampled. And it takes about as much evidence to become a terror suspects now as it took to be suspected of witchcraft in the good old days of the Salem Witch Trials.
This spying bill is pretty bad, but it's not nearly as big a blemish on our country as the Detainee/Trials/Torture bill that just got passed. If you want to see some real evidence of the terrorists winning against our freedoms, read up on that.
Come on, John McCain called that bill a victory! I mean McCain is the Republican who's fighting Bush! If he says that it's a victory for human rights to give GWB the full authority to decide that flaying terror suspects alive is not torture, it MUST be so! Right? Right?
You're right...I'm glad micro-organisms never learned how to fly or cover themselves in hardened shells. Those might be considered "superpowers."
Did that happen with a single mutation? How many genes need to mutate the right way for a person to be able to fly, or have telekinesis, or shoot force beams? Remember, this has to happen over a single generation, not natural selection pushing a species closer and closer toward the final ability over millions of years. Not even punctuated equilibrium results in two dinosaurs giving birth to a bird.
There's also a difference between "This game contains X hours of gameplay" and "This game takes X hours to beat." I remember playing FFVII on my computer. I didn't get Knights of the Round or even the Golden Chocobo. In fact when I got to the third CD, I didn't walk out of the cave to hunt down weapons. I just went ahead and finished the game. Admittedly I was a bit sick of it by then.
Eventually, we'll all be tanish eskimo-like people with the strength of all races from the strongest genes. And then we'll be sexist exclusively, able to focus all of our hate on one difference instead of many.:P
At least until we genetically engineer ourselves to become hermaphrodites to get rid of the social interraction required for reproduction. Then someone will ask why we didn't simply go with cloning, and we'll feel very stupid. But hey, the telekinetic transducer lobes will make up for it.
Hari Seldon would have failed today anyway, no matter how much history he had access to. His equations had the technology factor a more-or-less constant. Unexpected events such as specific technological breakthroughs can only be made a part of the equations once they happen. Not to mention he only dealt with human behavior en mass. A single ultra-intelligent non-human entity (an AI for example) would be completely unpredictable to him.
Don't worry, the new FBI surveilance cameras installed into kids' locker rooms and monitored 24/7 will ensure that our children are safe from these sickos.
I'm sorry, but what's your point? Though I guess the second quote could be taken as implying that Iraq has a weapons of mass destruction program, but that's about it.
Side note: "race" in the context of fantasy games really boils down to what we would call "species" in reality.
The common definition of "species" merely requires that different species can't interbreed to have kids which themselves can have kids. So the case of a "1/2 elf, 1/4 dwarf, 1/8 orc and 1/16 sprite and 1/16 centaur character", would at least imply that dwarves, orcs, sprites, and centaurs are the same species. If the character in question can have kids, elves join said species.
For a second there I thought 'your own little "The Princess Bride" moment' was a euphamism for an action that you'd need your dominant hand for.... I really need to get out more.
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I am just curious what exactly Bush has up his sleeve to force compliance from the good people like Sens. Specter, Mccain, and Graham.
"Support this and I will not publicly endorse you."
How about energy? Or even something completely different, and about as likely as invisible matter. And it really is invisible, right? If it merely didn't relfect light, it should at least be able to block it (think eclipse).
While I know it won't make me popular here, personally I don't mind if terrorists' rights are trampled. My problem is that the terror suspects' rights are trampled. And it takes about as much evidence to become a terror suspects now as it took to be suspected of witchcraft in the good old days of the Salem Witch Trials.
Vote early, vote often.
So, advocating cheating just because the other side does? How are you any different then?
We're not anywhere near Stalin's USSR yet, but we are dangerously close Putin's Russia.
This spying bill is pretty bad, but it's not nearly as big a blemish on our country as the Detainee/Trials/Torture bill that just got passed. If you want to see some real evidence of the terrorists winning against our freedoms, read up on that.
Come on, John McCain called that bill a victory! I mean McCain is the Republican who's fighting Bush! If he says that it's a victory for human rights to give GWB the full authority to decide that flaying terror suspects alive is not torture, it MUST be so! Right? Right?
Assuming it's matter creating all that gravity and not something else.
You forgot Dungeons and Dragons.
You're right...I'm glad micro-organisms never learned how to fly or cover themselves in hardened shells. Those might be considered "superpowers."
Did that happen with a single mutation? How many genes need to mutate the right way for a person to be able to fly, or have telekinesis, or shoot force beams? Remember, this has to happen over a single generation, not natural selection pushing a species closer and closer toward the final ability over millions of years. Not even punctuated equilibrium results in two dinosaurs giving birth to a bird.
If you want to go back, X-men "ripped it off" from Darwin.
Yup, because Darwin was all about random mutations resulting in awesome super powers.
No, it was blinded by a laser from China.
Let me guess, you don't watch Fox News?
So based on a sample size of 2, you have come to the conclusion that YouTube's popularity exploded in recent two months?
There's also a difference between "This game contains X hours of gameplay" and "This game takes X hours to beat." I remember playing FFVII on my computer. I didn't get Knights of the Round or even the Golden Chocobo. In fact when I got to the third CD, I didn't walk out of the cave to hunt down weapons. I just went ahead and finished the game. Admittedly I was a bit sick of it by then.
Eventually, we'll all be tanish eskimo-like people with the strength of all races from the strongest genes. And then we'll be sexist exclusively, able to focus all of our hate on one difference instead of many. :P
At least until we genetically engineer ourselves to become hermaphrodites to get rid of the social interraction required for reproduction. Then someone will ask why we didn't simply go with cloning, and we'll feel very stupid. But hey, the telekinetic transducer lobes will make up for it.
What the hell are you talking about? GHz of power? Windows? The thread is about an emulator that plays PS games on the PSP, not on a PC!
Of course that was the story. What, you didn't think I was smart enough to come up with that myself, did you?
Hari Seldon would have failed today anyway, no matter how much history he had access to. His equations had the technology factor a more-or-less constant. Unexpected events such as specific technological breakthroughs can only be made a part of the equations once they happen. Not to mention he only dealt with human behavior en mass. A single ultra-intelligent non-human entity (an AI for example) would be completely unpredictable to him.
Don't worry, the new FBI surveilance cameras installed into kids' locker rooms and monitored 24/7 will ensure that our children are safe from these sickos.
I'm sorry, but what's your point? Though I guess the second quote could be taken as implying that Iraq has a weapons of mass destruction program, but that's about it.
Side note: "race" in the context of fantasy games really boils down to what we would call "species" in reality.
The common definition of "species" merely requires that different species can't interbreed to have kids which themselves can have kids. So the case of a "1/2 elf, 1/4 dwarf, 1/8 orc and 1/16 sprite and 1/16 centaur character", would at least imply that dwarves, orcs, sprites, and centaurs are the same species. If the character in question can have kids, elves join said species.
For a second there I thought 'your own little "The Princess Bride" moment' was a euphamism for an action that you'd need your dominant hand for.... I really need to get out more.
Same here. I was wondering if they'd decided to move on to JBoss.
What, exactly, does youtube have that can't be easily copied?
Popularity?
Reminds me of that Family Guy episode where in an effort to stop the mutated Griffins, Mayor Adam West dips himself in toxic waste (and gets cancer.)