They lied. Activision made them say that. And it's not just me and Jimmy, all the bigwigs but one, have left, haven't they?
Wrath of the Lich King was as good as it got, and then downhill from there. The past couple of years have just been sad. The best news we will hear in gaming is that Activision has split Blizz off into it's own company. Probably saddled with tons of debt.
Well, Nintendo is a good company. They always have been.
But there is something to it, and it doesn't have to be a new 3D screen. I'm not sure I've even seen one yet. On a regular old 2D screen, intensively watching a 3D world that you're walking around in eventually does this damage. I'm talking about Warcraft, which I had to quit playing. It got to where I couldn't converge my eyes, which gives double vision. That's a real bitch when driving.
Anyway, I had gotten good enough for rated battlegrounds (#1 team on server for a few minutes..) so I am really intensively staring at the screen, getting into it as much as possible. Tricking my brain to accept this 1920x1080 square as reality. You begin to accept that the tree or flag or whatever, is really 30 or 80 yards away.
I quit, it got better, I went back; it came back much quicker with a vengence... I can't play; it's like a disability now. I'm older - I'm sure younger eyes recover quicker, etc. And I'm not 100% over it, it's got a long tail, and the remnants of it may well be permanent.
And society ran fine without computers for quite a few thousand years, so really, not anything *needs* to be computerized. Well, except computers, have to be, yeah, computerized.
Did he? I wonder how much of the campaign the candidate does, and how much the party does. But no, he didn't get that job done.
But Obama was not a weak incumbent 2 years ago. Battered, a little, but not weak. I wonder who could have beaten him. Gingrich? (Oh yeah, destroyed) Cain? (Also destroyed.) The doofus from Texas had no chance. (Yes, the glasses are helping, Rick.)
Well, he said he would. Maybe he lied. We shall see.
Legal authority? How long would that take for the courts to decide? And what about Bohner suing him for the other illegal executive orders? I haven't heard anything about that in a while. He probably cried himself to sleep and forgot about it.
So, if Obama issues an executive order granting blanket amnesty after the election, as he has promised to do, and the Government is now gearing up for; would you change your mind?
Whatever the technical hurdles are, they can be solved. That is the only accessible power stored in the Earth's crust, besides carbon.
An another thing, the carbon won't last forever anyway, even if global warming was the best thing to ever happen to Man. But one thing that will last almost forever is our current nuclear waste, that can only be disposed of in the reactors you describe.
You're thinking of known solutions. I think we all understand what the current ship was designed to do.
The premise was, any possible breakthrough that comes from actually running this ship, and it's descendants. Well, just the descendants now. But perhaps new and improved, with strap-on Cs.
There's lot's of room left to innovate with spacecraft. And the fact this part is done without my tax money; bonus. Sorry about the pilot though. (Sir Richard, have you thought about remote control? At least until you're really sure..)
Yeah. I actually do think that direct heating is vastly underrated (as in, not at all modeled) in the current models. And I get laughed off a thread when I bring it up.
The thing is, heat can't just 'go off into space'; there's nothing to conduct it. The only avenue for heat to escape the surface of the planet is IR radiation, and that ain't much, and the atmosphere blocks a lot that, both ways. Unless you're standing on the filament of a heat lamp or some such, it's a trivial amount of energy transfer, in my opinion. And the models back me up in the sense that IR radiation is not cutting it.
All the heating. Every single watt of electricity, no matter the source, is released as a watt of heat. Most of it is created using a lot more heat than watt for watt. Pavement and rooftops heat up from the sun. Lot of those lately. Big fires. How many total nukes did we set off, at millions of degrees each? How many under the ocean; underground? How long does that stay hot?
You're right. But it's not so much that I don't want to pay; I've always paid my way. I just don't like the price that you name. Same old socialist solution; different cause this time.
Your conclusion is lacking; it's the evil Western democracies that are pushing it.
I have a better explanation: It's the oil companies themselves that push the whole thing.
First: Kill nuclear power. Check. Second: Plant an unresolvable 'debate' that must be resolved, thus paralyzing the public. Check. Third: Create a carbon credit market to legitimize, control, and further entrench carbon in the economy. Check.
third b): Make the same money twice for selling carbon. Bonus.
Yes. What would have helped, would have been applied conservatism. After you quit laughing, I'm not talking about what conservatism has come to mean, well, most of this past century.
Root word of conservatism: Conservation. Applied to politics; conservation of public funds and resources. When public action is necessary, then move conservatively, even softly. (That was a public action, leasing all those Federal lands to logger barons)
The only leader I can think of that was close to that ideal was Teddy Roosevelt. And he was called a progressive, and run out of the Republican party.
PS. If it's any consolation, cheap plywood helped us to defeat the Soviet Union. A little..
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That was truly epic shit eh? And what about city raids? Ah, I miss that.
That's a bad thing, for everyone, even the casuals.
They lied. Activision made them say that. And it's not just me and Jimmy, all the bigwigs but one, have left, haven't they?
Wrath of the Lich King was as good as it got, and then downhill from there. The past couple of years have just been sad. The best news we will hear in gaming is that Activision has split Blizz off into it's own company. Probably saddled with tons of debt.
Well, Nintendo is a good company. They always have been.
But there is something to it, and it doesn't have to be a new 3D screen. I'm not sure I've even seen one yet. On a regular old 2D screen, intensively watching a 3D world that you're walking around in eventually does this damage. I'm talking about Warcraft, which I had to quit playing. It got to where I couldn't converge my eyes, which gives double vision. That's a real bitch when driving.
Anyway, I had gotten good enough for rated battlegrounds (#1 team on server for a few minutes..) so I am really intensively staring at the screen, getting into it as much as possible. Tricking my brain to accept this 1920x1080 square as reality. You begin to accept that the tree or flag or whatever, is really 30 or 80 yards away.
I quit, it got better, I went back; it came back much quicker with a vengence... I can't play; it's like a disability now. I'm older - I'm sure younger eyes recover quicker, etc. And I'm not 100% over it, it's got a long tail, and the remnants of it may well be permanent.
And society ran fine without computers for quite a few thousand years, so really, not anything *needs* to be computerized. Well, except computers, have to be, yeah, computerized.
It works pretty well in Mississippi.
Did he? I wonder how much of the campaign the candidate does, and how much the party does. But no, he didn't get that job done.
But Obama was not a weak incumbent 2 years ago. Battered, a little, but not weak. I wonder who could have beaten him. Gingrich? (Oh yeah, destroyed) Cain? (Also destroyed.) The doofus from Texas had no chance. (Yes, the glasses are helping, Rick.)
Huh. Are you for him or against him? Because your link makes him look pretty good.
Getting black men out of jail for drugs, giving Detroit billions in tax breaks, and getting ghetto black kids into rich white schools.
So what, are those all code words for something sinister?
Because he's a European Socialist, and believes in mob rule.
Perhaps that's a bit harsh. And if we had open primaries, that would make things somewhat more representative.
Yeah, but dang, she's hot. Hard choices...
Well, he said he would. Maybe he lied. We shall see.
Legal authority? How long would that take for the courts to decide? And what about Bohner suing him for the other illegal executive orders? I haven't heard anything about that in a while. He probably cried himself to sleep and forgot about it.
So, if Obama issues an executive order granting blanket amnesty after the election, as he has promised to do, and the Government is now gearing up for; would you change your mind?
And where did Poly say Fox?
I'm having second thoughts about Romney.
He could be a better speaker, campaigner, politician; yeah. But of the jobs he's had, he's gotten the job done.
I meant not an option, in that we have to do it.
Whatever the technical hurdles are, they can be solved. That is the only accessible power stored in the Earth's crust, besides carbon.
An another thing, the carbon won't last forever anyway, even if global warming was the best thing to ever happen to Man. But one thing that will last almost forever is our current nuclear waste, that can only be disposed of in the reactors you describe.
Ah. Good. 'Cause it's a bad plan.
You're thinking of known solutions. I think we all understand what the current ship was designed to do.
The premise was, any possible breakthrough that comes from actually running this ship, and it's descendants. Well, just the descendants now. But perhaps new and improved, with strap-on Cs.
There's lot's of room left to innovate with spacecraft. And the fact this part is done without my tax money; bonus. Sorry about the pilot though. (Sir Richard, have you thought about remote control? At least until you're really sure..)
Yeah. I actually do think that direct heating is vastly underrated (as in, not at all modeled) in the current models. And I get laughed off a thread when I bring it up.
The thing is, heat can't just 'go off into space'; there's nothing to conduct it. The only avenue for heat to escape the surface of the planet is IR radiation, and that ain't much, and the atmosphere blocks a lot that, both ways. Unless you're standing on the filament of a heat lamp or some such, it's a trivial amount of energy transfer, in my opinion. And the models back me up in the sense that IR radiation is not cutting it.
All the heating. Every single watt of electricity, no matter the source, is released as a watt of heat. Most of it is created using a lot more heat than watt for watt. Pavement and rooftops heat up from the sun. Lot of those lately. Big fires. How many total nukes did we set off, at millions of degrees each? How many under the ocean; underground? How long does that stay hot?
There are lots of sources.
You're right. But it's not so much that I don't want to pay; I've always paid my way. I just don't like the price that you name. Same old socialist solution; different cause this time.
Your conclusion is lacking; it's the evil Western democracies that are pushing it.
I have a better explanation: It's the oil companies themselves that push the whole thing.
First: Kill nuclear power. Check.
Second: Plant an unresolvable 'debate' that must be resolved, thus paralyzing the public. Check.
Third: Create a carbon credit market to legitimize, control, and further entrench carbon in the economy. Check.
third b): Make the same money twice for selling carbon. Bonus.
I can't speak for what Africans may have said, but it's probably for the best that Monsanto doesn't now own their food supply.
I tell you what though, this is stimulus I can get behind. The common man feels it pretty instantly.
"America has plenty of depleted oilfields"
For a second I thought you were going to say, "put the oil back in the ground."
Huh. I'm thinking about that...
"profit incentives in the hundreds of billions of dollars"
That money comes from me, man. You're going to fleece me for that much, and give it to the rich.
That's your plan?
That would be a shame, because there's a few billion brown(ish) people that are about to get their turn.
Yes. What would have helped, would have been applied conservatism. After you quit laughing, I'm not talking about what conservatism has come to mean, well, most of this past century.
Root word of conservatism: Conservation. Applied to politics; conservation of public funds and resources. When public action is necessary, then move conservatively, even softly. (That was a public action, leasing all those Federal lands to logger barons)
The only leader I can think of that was close to that ideal was Teddy Roosevelt. And he was called a progressive, and run out of the Republican party.
PS. If it's any consolation, cheap plywood helped us to defeat the Soviet Union. A little..