Because as movies have shown us all, failing to keep military tech top-notch means that when the aliens arrive, or machines achieve independance, or whatever.. you're pretty screwed.
There's also always the ideas of trying to use them to terraform Mars -- keep in mind GW stated that as a goal a while back -- and if more advanced nukes won't leave dangerous radiation floating around for ages, it may just be an option. Though there's still the problem of getting an atmosphere to stick to the planet in the first place.
"I have had one issue with pot though. The main one is that it affects my vocabulary detrimentally. I'm a pretty educated guy, with a large vocabulary. When I smoke pot extensively, I notice that when I go to call on some less-frequently-used words, they just aren't there. It's like the rooms of my mind containing the words are still there, but I lose the directions to get to that room. Since pot isn't at all addictive, I have gone months or even years at a time without smoking at all, and when I 'dry out' that way, my vocabulary returns to normal, so the effect is completely temporary. It is one of the few effects from pot that I have found that is unambiguously 'bad'; there is no good reason to ever want to lose access to any portion of your learned vocabulary. (Most of the effects from pot, in my experience, are good; this vocabulary problem is the biggest exception, at least for me.)"
That stinks, doesn't it?
I had briefly managed to circumvent that little drawback. Back in college, I worked in a book store..... so I was plowing through about 4-6 primarily non-fiction books a month. While stoned out of my mind. Everyone looked at me a bit odd -- here I sit, pipe in one hand, 600-page book about oh, say evolution, or medival history, in the other -- but I actually managed to absorb and understand the material more easily and fully than normal. For me, normal is already pretty easy and full.
If you want to confuse a room of stoners, start talking about how Europe's rise to prominance in the world stage was due, ultimately, only to the ease of domesticability of edible plants and large mammals found from europe to asia, and the east-west primary axis of the eurasian landmass.
That.. actually... drove a date out of my apartment. GFG!
"Whenever I've seen people having problems with these drugs, is because they don't respect them, think that taking more == makes you cooler, they get competative ("I can handle more than you"),"
"Though people can trip on dextromethorphan, I guess it's rare enough that there's not a serious concern about it. I mean hell, people can get high on whip cream propellant if they want."
Actually, DXM-containing OTC meds in some places do require ID.. and they're heavily watched. Not maybe as much as pseudoephedrine -- that's often kept behind counters nowadays -- but still, it's watched. Kids buy it, steal it, drink it, trip balls (note to the adventurous: if you buy the wrong bottle, you'll get very sick and fuck your liver up royally. if you want to know what to get... www.justfuckinggoogleit.com).
And yes, whip cream propellant, aka whippits, are great fun. Especially if used while on DXM, mushrooms, or acid. (note to the adventurous: if you take a hit right from the cartridge you most likely WILL freeze your lungs. That's seriously bad shit. if you want to know how to do it... www.justfuckinggoogleit.com).
I went to college.
But only for 3 years.
That means that I know a whole shitload about all sorts of drugs -- more than anyone should.
Adderal, Ritalin -- they're amphetamines. Serious stuff. Similar to meth, a lot easier to get if you're say under 24. Also a lot safer, since they're not cooked up in someone's shed.
Bad side? Hell yeah. They're pretty addictive, it's easy to do too much, amphetamine psychosis is real, as is hallucinations due to sleep dep. It's also easy to do too much not in regards to actual health concerns, but simply so much you pass the point of being able to concentrate at all and wind up just sitting around and well.. tweaking.
I don't suggest anyone try speed. I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's evil.. but I will sit here and say it's easier than you'd think to wind up doing too much, and that I've seen people develop addiction problems very easily, and even if you avoid those two things.. well, it's just not very much fun to be honest.
Smoke a joint.
Watch some cartoons. Play some video games.
Work is for chumps.
And if you ARE going to do drugs -- seriously, the intarwab is amazing. There's scores of sites to be found loaded with information. Check it out. Some of it's good, but read the bad stuff too. Depending on who you meet, chances are the bad information you find online will be more correct than the bad information they'll tell you. And of course.. if you know me, ask me. I've done or seen enough to know more than I should, and I'm not a fan of misinformation, be it gub'mint FUD or some needlehead telling you the story about the guy who had a sheet of acid in his pocket and got caught in a rainstorm, and wound up thinking he was a glass of orange juice till he finally fell over, thought he spilled, and died.
I've done it before. Not for 6 full months, mind you, but I've gone for a few months at a time before with no job, and not even looking for a job. Nothing but sitting around, hangin out, playin video games, readin books, and gettin messed up.
I'll grant that having your own little projects is better -- but compairing accomplishing absolutely nothing and doing no work, and accomplishing nothing yet holding a job simply to survive, and I'll jump on the former any day of the week.
Wow, that wikipedia article needs some serious help.
Those "GO AWAY IF YOU'RE TEH LAW!" messages have been around for -aaaagges-.
Really, it's all simply taking an old urban myth and moving it into the computer age -- the "If you ask an undercover cop if they're a cop, they HAVE to say yes if they are!" myth.
I remember seeing those things on BBS's.. back before I started even using the internet. Heck, the one BBS I recall, the owner, upon finally getting onto the intarwab, gave me his site's address. In numbers. w1n.
Though it is interesting that the "are you a cop?" changed into "go away if you're a cop or guvmint!" changed into "Bill Clinton signed this law and you HAVE to go away!!12".. I wonder exactly when the mention of the 'IPA' started.
"so even if we entirely ceased carbon dioxide emissions tomorrow (which we probably couldn't even if we really wanted to without bringing civilization to its knees)"... surely you mean, which we DEFINATELY couldn't do even if we really wanted to without KILLING EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH, right.
Cause.. I exhale CO2. All the time. I'm addicted to emitting CO2. So does my dog. My dinner used to -- and copious amounts of methane -- but then it was killed and thrown on my grill.
There's nothing wrong with CO2, there's just a problem with CO2 if there's not enough plants around. Plants eat that shit up like candy.
I live and grew up in a suburban/rural area.. over the past 10-12 years or so I've been witnessing exactly what you're talking about, if to a lesser degree.
When I was younger, riding my bike everywhere, it was kind of interesting. I knew some people who lived out in these new developments, they were a bit outside town.. it was neat to ride around and see all the land that was torn apart, trenches for pipes, stone laid where roads would be. Still, the developments were relatively small, and much farmland remained in all directions.
I started driving a few years later and the developments were still growing.
A few of them grew to completely fill fields. In the 2 years between getting my license and graduating, traffic through this crappy little town with its 2-lane, 4-red-light main road probably doubled, at least. It FELT cramped, something that had been absolutely foreign for the 18 years previous.
Not only that, but thanks to some retarded goddamned federal regs dealing with developments, NONE OF THE ROADS ARE STRAIGHT. Nothing better than a town doubling in size with the outlying areas all having roads that are nothing but curves.
Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Enjoy your 1-car garage and lack of curb-side parking because you're on a constant curve that already reduces what should be wide enough for 2 cars to pass, to a 1-way street because everyone is constantly turning one way or another.
No, I'm sure there'll never be a problem with people hitting things because they're always in a turn. Nah, who cares if it's icy -- I'm sure the borough which never could keep its few roads cleared of snow will have no PROBLEM dealing with these new developments!
Now? Well, some of the areas that were started when I was on my bike are STILL getting bigger. The field across from my high school is being turned into housing. Funny, too. The development has "arbor" in its name. It's been farmland for at LEAST the past 2 decades. I'd wager for at a score of decades before that, too. Matter of fact half the developments have something dealing with trees in their name, but they're all nothing but farmland. Were.. nothing.
So now this area is burdened with a friggin order of magnitude more traffic than less than a decade ago, with absolutely no improvement to existing roadways underway or in planning. We just have to deal with it.
And then these idiots have the nerve to complain about the train tracks that have been there since the town was FOUNDED that they moved next to. Or that the field stinks in the spring when the farmer's spreading manure.
Well you know what, shove it up your ass, doucheface.
ps: SCREW YOU TOO MR. FORMATTING
I live and grew up in a suburban/rural area.. over the past 10-12 years or so I've been witnessing exactly what you're talking about, if to a lesser degree.
When I was younger, riding my bike everywhere, it was kind of interesting. I knew some people who lived out in these new developments, they were a bit outside town.. it was neat to ride around and see all the land that was torn apart, trenches for pipes, stone laid where roads would be. Still, the developments were relatively small, and much farmland remained in all directions.
I started driving a few years later and the developments were still growing. A few of them grew to completely fill fields. In the 2 years between getting my license and graduating, traffic through this crappy little town with its 2-lane, 4-red-light main road probably doubled, at least. It FELT cramped, something that had been absolutely foreign for the 18 years previous.
Not only that, but thanks to some retarded goddamned federal regs dealing with developments, NONE OF THE ROADS ARE STRAIGHT. Nothing better than a town doubling in size with the outlying areas all having roads that are nothing but curves. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Enjoy your 1-car garage and lack of curb-side parking because you're on a constant curve that already reduces what should be wide enough for 2 cars to pass, to a 1-way street because everyone is constantly turning one way or another.
No, I'm sure there'll never be a problem with people hitting things because they're always in a turn. Nah, who cares if it's icy -- I'm sure the borough which never could keep its few roads cleared of snow will have no PROBLEM dealing with these new developments!
Now? Well, some of the areas that were started when I was on my bike are STILL getting bigger. The field across from my high school is being turned into housing. Funny, too. The development has "arbor" in its name. It's been farmland for at LEAST the past 2 decades. I'd wager for at a score of decades before that, too. Matter of fact half the developments have something dealing with trees in their name, but they're all nothing but farmland. Were.. nothing.
So now this area is burdened with a friggin order of magnitude more traffic than less than a decade ago, with absolutely no improvement to existing roadways underway or in planning. We just have to deal with it.
And then these idiots have the nerve to complain about the train tracks that have been there since the town was FOUNDED that they moved next to. Or that the field stinks in the spring when the farmer's spreading manure. Well you know what, shove it up your ass, doucheface.
"What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?".... Me?
Some times, childish humor, when the intention is not to get a laugh out of the comment itself but rather the fact that you're SAYING something so stupidly childish, is fun.
My grandfather, who was HUGE into computers back in the day, had a shirt that read, "My Wang is Always Up".
He bought one for my mom, too. "Dual Floppies".. I don't believe she wore it much.
You've got to be an angst-filled little ball of stink to not get a chuckle out of that kind of thing. You can bet I'll be making all kinds of jokes that'll just make people groan about how awesome my Wii is, how I'd love for them to come over and play with my Wii for a little while, how the stick fits right into your hand. Good lord it's a GOLD MINE of sophomoric jokes!
You mean like Spyfalcon and its many other flavors?
It exists. It's pretty evil to get rid of, too -- there's a few varieties floating around that really don't have documentation available online on how to remove 'em. No lie. Took me 2 days to get it off of a computer. From what I was told, everything started after looking at some free pr0n videos, one of which opened up an in-browser 'player' that said 'codec not found, download now from blahblah'.
Just goes to show you -- don't spend too much time around skanky women, or you'll catch a disease. In person OR on teh intarwab.
I've wondered this very question often myself.
Of course, trains use big diesel turbine engines.. but those things are GREAT at getting up to a certain speed, and continuing to run incredibly efficiently at that speed.
There've been cars with turbine engines, but they have acceleration problems -- they're less responsive than a conventional engine by and by large, as it takes a while to get the turbine spinning fast enough. Have the turbine just run electric motors and bam, problem solved!... so you'd think.
Funniest show ever. The bit with meeting each district's elected representatives? Every time he finds some new way to insult and/or embarass them. I love it.
Some of them come off pretty well -- they get the joke, and try to go along. Some really show how dimwitted they are. Not in the GW, I can't speak dumb, but the vapid popular kid who can speak and act well enough but has absolutely nothing behind the eyes but being popular and the latest GAP commercial jingle.
I... don't rightly know, to be honest. It was just a matter of breathing control, and the fact that my heartbeat varies as I inhale/exhale normally anyway. Basically went like this.. the closest and easiest way to relate what was going on would be to compare it to mediatation. extreme calmness.. a blank mind, no-thought.. I'd lay there and shift my concentration slowly, very slowly, around my body, and make sure every single muscle was relaxed. Then, you just continue that, with slow breathing. I'd just lay there, almost as if I was falling asleep, but without the eyelid-droopy grogginess.
I never talked to any doctors about it.. I'm sure that over such a short period of time it's fine. I didn't have to do anything to START it beating again, and people get along fine just fine with heartbeats at only 30-40 BPM normally. I never suffered any ill effects from it, nothing major or even anything minor like slightly blacking out like you can do by holding your breath for a long time. Couldn't do it by sucking in a lot of air all at once and holding your breath, as all that air and muscle strain would mean a big heartbeat -- I'd have to work myself into it for a bit beforehand, with slow, controlled breathing, working up to just a pause. Some air in the lungs, but not much at all.. not enough to cause any sort of muscle stress anywhere.
As I said though, it's hard for me to describe without comparing it to some kind of crazy eastern meditation.
Definately the most worthwhile thing I took away from any sport I've participated in, I'd say -- it's a great "can you do this?" card to pull, but more than that, even though I don't think I really can do it anymore, the basics are still there.. great way to calm down and keep myself even.
Very very true.
You also need to learn how to read the wind. Not just the wind where you are, and not just the wind where your target is -- both of those, as well as any movement the air may be doing between the end of your barrel and what you're aiming at.
Very, very difficult.
At a distance of 1,000 yards, 1 MOA (that's minute of angle, that means 1/60 of a degree) is about 10.5 inches.
That's right. If your aim is off by ONE SIXTIETH OF ONE DEGREE, and you're trying to shoot a person, you'll be lucky to hit their arm.
Even at 500 yards, that's 5 inches. I challenge any of you chair jockies to try holding something in place and repeatedly being able to pull a trigger without deviating by a fraction of a degree. Even if you reduce your muscle tremors (and everyone shakes, slightly) to nothing at all, the blood pumping through your body will move your aim more than a few fractions of a degree.
I used to shoot smallbore competetively. Was pretty good, too -- 1600, 147X was my top outdoor prone score, if that matters to anyone.
In order to shoot that well, I actually had conditioned myself to be able to control my heartbeat. Through breathing and concentration I was able to pause my heartbeat and my breathing for a few seconds. I'd say I could pull off 2-3 seconds with no heartbeat.. which could have been much better, but I was around 60-70 BPM at that point. If I did more exercise and had managed to get to 40-50 BPM I probably could have pulled off 3-4 seconds with no heart beat.
Chew on that the next time you're about to open your mouth and claim that serious long-range shooting is a joke, and that you could do it with only a few days practice. That's every bit as foolish as me claiming I could be a totally pr0 ninja, just give me a day or two to practice jumping around and climbing walls.
Maybe they're just hoping that consumers will aggro their console, even if other consoles are closer to the consumer and thus should be the ones getting attacked.
And then, after a few years of denying any such Wii-flag, Nintendo will admit that yes, there was some shenanigans with their design, and it did cause consumers to behave in strange ways contrary to what would have been expected.
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More akin to mushroom tea.
Or mushroom koolaid. Now that was weird.
Koolaid man brought a message. He says "OHH YEAAHHH!"
Because as movies have shown us all, failing to keep military tech top-notch means that when the aliens arrive, or machines achieve independance, or whatever.. you're pretty screwed.
There's also always the ideas of trying to use them to terraform Mars -- keep in mind GW stated that as a goal a while back -- and if more advanced nukes won't leave dangerous radiation floating around for ages, it may just be an option. Though there's still the problem of getting an atmosphere to stick to the planet in the first place.
"I have had one issue with pot though. The main one is that it affects my vocabulary detrimentally. I'm a pretty educated guy, with a large vocabulary. When I smoke pot extensively, I notice that when I go to call on some less-frequently-used words, they just aren't there. It's like the rooms of my mind containing the words are still there, but I lose the directions to get to that room. Since pot isn't at all addictive, I have gone months or even years at a time without smoking at all, and when I 'dry out' that way, my vocabulary returns to normal, so the effect is completely temporary. It is one of the few effects from pot that I have found that is unambiguously 'bad'; there is no good reason to ever want to lose access to any portion of your learned vocabulary. (Most of the effects from pot, in my experience, are good; this vocabulary problem is the biggest exception, at least for me.)"
.. so I was plowing through about 4-6 primarily non-fiction books a month. While stoned out of my mind. Everyone looked at me a bit odd -- here I sit, pipe in one hand, 600-page book about oh, say evolution, or medival history, in the other -- but I actually managed to absorb and understand the material more easily and fully than normal. For me, normal is already pretty easy and full.
That stinks, doesn't it?
I had briefly managed to circumvent that little drawback. Back in college, I worked in a book store...
If you want to confuse a room of stoners, start talking about how Europe's rise to prominance in the world stage was due, ultimately, only to the ease of domesticability of edible plants and large mammals found from europe to asia, and the east-west primary axis of the eurasian landmass.
That.. actually... drove a date out of my apartment. GFG!
Because Aqua Teen is coming on
"Whenever I've seen people having problems with these drugs, is because they don't respect them, think that taking more == makes you cooler, they get competative ("I can handle more than you"),"
I told you i was hardcore!
"Though people can trip on dextromethorphan, I guess it's rare enough that there's not a serious concern about it. I mean hell, people can get high on whip cream propellant if they want."
Actually, DXM-containing OTC meds in some places do require ID.. and they're heavily watched. Not maybe as much as pseudoephedrine -- that's often kept behind counters nowadays -- but still, it's watched. Kids buy it, steal it, drink it, trip balls (note to the adventurous: if you buy the wrong bottle, you'll get very sick and fuck your liver up royally. if you want to know what to get... www.justfuckinggoogleit.com).
And yes, whip cream propellant, aka whippits, are great fun. Especially if used while on DXM, mushrooms, or acid. (note to the adventurous: if you take a hit right from the cartridge you most likely WILL freeze your lungs. That's seriously bad shit. if you want to know how to do it... www.justfuckinggoogleit.com).
I went to college.
But only for 3 years.
That means that I know a whole shitload about all sorts of drugs -- more than anyone should.
Adderal, Ritalin -- they're amphetamines. Serious stuff. Similar to meth, a lot easier to get if you're say under 24. Also a lot safer, since they're not cooked up in someone's shed.
Bad side? Hell yeah. They're pretty addictive, it's easy to do too much, amphetamine psychosis is real, as is hallucinations due to sleep dep. It's also easy to do too much not in regards to actual health concerns, but simply so much you pass the point of being able to concentrate at all and wind up just sitting around and well.. tweaking.
I don't suggest anyone try speed. I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's evil.. but I will sit here and say it's easier than you'd think to wind up doing too much, and that I've seen people develop addiction problems very easily, and even if you avoid those two things.. well, it's just not very much fun to be honest.
Smoke a joint.
Watch some cartoons. Play some video games.
Work is for chumps.
And if you ARE going to do drugs -- seriously, the intarwab is amazing. There's scores of sites to be found loaded with information. Check it out. Some of it's good, but read the bad stuff too. Depending on who you meet, chances are the bad information you find online will be more correct than the bad information they'll tell you. And of course.. if you know me, ask me. I've done or seen enough to know more than I should, and I'm not a fan of misinformation, be it gub'mint FUD or some needlehead telling you the story about the guy who had a sheet of acid in his pocket and got caught in a rainstorm, and wound up thinking he was a glass of orange juice till he finally fell over, thought he spilled, and died.
Seriously.
Watch me.
I've done it before. Not for 6 full months, mind you, but I've gone for a few months at a time before with no job, and not even looking for a job.
Nothing but sitting around, hangin out, playin video games, readin books, and gettin messed up.
I'll grant that having your own little projects is better -- but compairing accomplishing absolutely nothing and doing no work, and accomplishing nothing yet holding a job simply to survive, and I'll jump on the former any day of the week.
"but the truth is that people don't enjoy things they don't have to work at."
.. i'm eating dinner, it seemed relevant.
If you agree to subsidize my (fairly low-cost) living expenses, I guarentee I can prove you wrong.
Just show up about 6 months after I've not worked for a single cent and ask me how happy and fulfilled I am.
I GUARANTEE the answer will be "much more than when i was working 40-60 hours a week".
also people like to eat food they didn't have to cook to prepare.
Wow, that wikipedia article needs some serious help.
Those "GO AWAY IF YOU'RE TEH LAW!" messages have been around for -aaaagges-.
Really, it's all simply taking an old urban myth and moving it into the computer age -- the "If you ask an undercover cop if they're a cop, they HAVE to say yes if they are!" myth.
I remember seeing those things on BBS's.. back before I started even using the internet. Heck, the one BBS I recall, the owner, upon finally getting onto the intarwab, gave me his site's address. In numbers. w1n.
Though it is interesting that the "are you a cop?" changed into "go away if you're a cop or guvmint!" changed into "Bill Clinton signed this law and you HAVE to go away!!12".. I wonder exactly when the mention of the 'IPA' started.
"so even if we entirely ceased carbon dioxide emissions tomorrow (which we probably couldn't even if we really wanted to without bringing civilization to its knees)" ... surely you mean, which we DEFINATELY couldn't do even if we really wanted to without KILLING EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH, right.
Cause.. I exhale CO2. All the time. I'm addicted to emitting CO2. So does my dog. My dinner used to -- and copious amounts of methane -- but then it was killed and thrown on my grill.
There's nothing wrong with CO2, there's just a problem with CO2 if there's not enough plants around. Plants eat that shit up like candy.
I live and grew up in a suburban/rural area.. over the past 10-12 years or so I've been witnessing exactly what you're talking about, if to a lesser degree. When I was younger, riding my bike everywhere, it was kind of interesting. I knew some people who lived out in these new developments, they were a bit outside town.. it was neat to ride around and see all the land that was torn apart, trenches for pipes, stone laid where roads would be. Still, the developments were relatively small, and much farmland remained in all directions. I started driving a few years later and the developments were still growing. A few of them grew to completely fill fields. In the 2 years between getting my license and graduating, traffic through this crappy little town with its 2-lane, 4-red-light main road probably doubled, at least. It FELT cramped, something that had been absolutely foreign for the 18 years previous. Not only that, but thanks to some retarded goddamned federal regs dealing with developments, NONE OF THE ROADS ARE STRAIGHT. Nothing better than a town doubling in size with the outlying areas all having roads that are nothing but curves. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Enjoy your 1-car garage and lack of curb-side parking because you're on a constant curve that already reduces what should be wide enough for 2 cars to pass, to a 1-way street because everyone is constantly turning one way or another. No, I'm sure there'll never be a problem with people hitting things because they're always in a turn. Nah, who cares if it's icy -- I'm sure the borough which never could keep its few roads cleared of snow will have no PROBLEM dealing with these new developments! Now? Well, some of the areas that were started when I was on my bike are STILL getting bigger. The field across from my high school is being turned into housing. Funny, too. The development has "arbor" in its name. It's been farmland for at LEAST the past 2 decades. I'd wager for at a score of decades before that, too. Matter of fact half the developments have something dealing with trees in their name, but they're all nothing but farmland. Were.. nothing. So now this area is burdened with a friggin order of magnitude more traffic than less than a decade ago, with absolutely no improvement to existing roadways underway or in planning. We just have to deal with it. And then these idiots have the nerve to complain about the train tracks that have been there since the town was FOUNDED that they moved next to. Or that the field stinks in the spring when the farmer's spreading manure. Well you know what, shove it up your ass, doucheface. ps: SCREW YOU TOO MR. FORMATTING
I live and grew up in a suburban/rural area.. over the past 10-12 years or so I've been witnessing exactly what you're talking about, if to a lesser degree. When I was younger, riding my bike everywhere, it was kind of interesting. I knew some people who lived out in these new developments, they were a bit outside town.. it was neat to ride around and see all the land that was torn apart, trenches for pipes, stone laid where roads would be. Still, the developments were relatively small, and much farmland remained in all directions. I started driving a few years later and the developments were still growing. A few of them grew to completely fill fields. In the 2 years between getting my license and graduating, traffic through this crappy little town with its 2-lane, 4-red-light main road probably doubled, at least. It FELT cramped, something that had been absolutely foreign for the 18 years previous. Not only that, but thanks to some retarded goddamned federal regs dealing with developments, NONE OF THE ROADS ARE STRAIGHT. Nothing better than a town doubling in size with the outlying areas all having roads that are nothing but curves. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Enjoy your 1-car garage and lack of curb-side parking because you're on a constant curve that already reduces what should be wide enough for 2 cars to pass, to a 1-way street because everyone is constantly turning one way or another. No, I'm sure there'll never be a problem with people hitting things because they're always in a turn. Nah, who cares if it's icy -- I'm sure the borough which never could keep its few roads cleared of snow will have no PROBLEM dealing with these new developments! Now? Well, some of the areas that were started when I was on my bike are STILL getting bigger. The field across from my high school is being turned into housing. Funny, too. The development has "arbor" in its name. It's been farmland for at LEAST the past 2 decades. I'd wager for at a score of decades before that, too. Matter of fact half the developments have something dealing with trees in their name, but they're all nothing but farmland. Were.. nothing. So now this area is burdened with a friggin order of magnitude more traffic than less than a decade ago, with absolutely no improvement to existing roadways underway or in planning. We just have to deal with it. And then these idiots have the nerve to complain about the train tracks that have been there since the town was FOUNDED that they moved next to. Or that the field stinks in the spring when the farmer's spreading manure. Well you know what, shove it up your ass, doucheface.
"What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?" .... Me?
Some times, childish humor, when the intention is not to get a laugh out of the comment itself but rather the fact that you're SAYING something so stupidly childish, is fun.
My grandfather, who was HUGE into computers back in the day, had a shirt that read, "My Wang is Always Up".
He bought one for my mom, too. "Dual Floppies".. I don't believe she wore it much.
You've got to be an angst-filled little ball of stink to not get a chuckle out of that kind of thing. You can bet I'll be making all kinds of jokes that'll just make people groan about how awesome my Wii is, how I'd love for them to come over and play with my Wii for a little while, how the stick fits right into your hand. Good lord it's a GOLD MINE of sophomoric jokes!
See also: Johnstown Flood relief tax on alcoholic products sold within PA.
Enacted after the flood in 1936 as a 10% tax on alcohol, set to last until $41 million had been raised to rebuild the city.
Of course, that amount was raised long, long ago.
Long before they decided to allocate money into the general fund. And then raise the amount to 18%. On top of the 6% sales tax.
Didja know our state lawmakers are the 3rd highest payed in the nation? These guys rock! What a great state. Oh, excuse me. Commonwealth. PFFffff.
You mean like Spyfalcon and its many other flavors?
It exists. It's pretty evil to get rid of, too -- there's a few varieties floating around that really don't have documentation available online on how to remove 'em.
No lie. Took me 2 days to get it off of a computer. From what I was told, everything started after looking at some free pr0n videos, one of which opened up an in-browser 'player' that said 'codec not found, download now from blahblah'.
Just goes to show you -- don't spend too much time around skanky women, or you'll catch a disease. In person OR on teh intarwab.
You mean you're going to become a civil servant?
This guy subscribed to slashdot just to spam this shit?
WTF, sir. WTF indeed.
I've wondered this very question often myself. Of course, trains use big diesel turbine engines.. but those things are GREAT at getting up to a certain speed, and continuing to run incredibly efficiently at that speed. There've been cars with turbine engines, but they have acceleration problems -- they're less responsive than a conventional engine by and by large, as it takes a while to get the turbine spinning fast enough. Have the turbine just run electric motors and bam, problem solved! ... so you'd think.
Honestly, between carrying beer and liquor while hiking or camping, tempurature concerns aside, I'd much rather have the liquor.
In an emergency, at least that liquor could pass for a half-assed disinfectant.
... flamebait? Oh come on, can't you people read the sarcasm dripping off this.. man!
The needs of the many . . .
Funniest show ever. The bit with meeting each district's elected representatives? Every time he finds some new way to insult and/or embarass them. I love it. Some of them come off pretty well -- they get the joke, and try to go along. Some really show how dimwitted they are. Not in the GW, I can't speak dumb, but the vapid popular kid who can speak and act well enough but has absolutely nothing behind the eyes but being popular and the latest GAP commercial jingle.
I... don't rightly know, to be honest. It was just a matter of breathing control, and the fact that my heartbeat varies as I inhale/exhale normally anyway.
Basically went like this.. the closest and easiest way to relate what was going on would be to compare it to mediatation.
extreme calmness.. a blank mind, no-thought.. I'd lay there and shift my concentration slowly, very slowly, around my body, and make sure every single muscle was relaxed. Then, you just continue that, with slow breathing. I'd just lay there, almost as if I was falling asleep, but without the eyelid-droopy grogginess.
I never talked to any doctors about it.. I'm sure that over such a short period of time it's fine. I didn't have to do anything to START it beating again, and people get along fine just fine with heartbeats at only 30-40 BPM normally. I never suffered any ill effects from it, nothing major or even anything minor like slightly blacking out like you can do by holding your breath for a long time. Couldn't do it by sucking in a lot of air all at once and holding your breath, as all that air and muscle strain would mean a big heartbeat -- I'd have to work myself into it for a bit beforehand, with slow, controlled breathing, working up to just a pause. Some air in the lungs, but not much at all.. not enough to cause any sort of muscle stress anywhere.
As I said though, it's hard for me to describe without comparing it to some kind of crazy eastern meditation.
Definately the most worthwhile thing I took away from any sport I've participated in, I'd say -- it's a great "can you do this?" card to pull, but more than that, even though I don't think I really can do it anymore, the basics are still there.. great way to calm down and keep myself even.
Very very true. You also need to learn how to read the wind. Not just the wind where you are, and not just the wind where your target is -- both of those, as well as any movement the air may be doing between the end of your barrel and what you're aiming at. Very, very difficult. At a distance of 1,000 yards, 1 MOA (that's minute of angle, that means 1/60 of a degree) is about 10.5 inches. That's right. If your aim is off by ONE SIXTIETH OF ONE DEGREE, and you're trying to shoot a person, you'll be lucky to hit their arm. Even at 500 yards, that's 5 inches. I challenge any of you chair jockies to try holding something in place and repeatedly being able to pull a trigger without deviating by a fraction of a degree. Even if you reduce your muscle tremors (and everyone shakes, slightly) to nothing at all, the blood pumping through your body will move your aim more than a few fractions of a degree. I used to shoot smallbore competetively. Was pretty good, too -- 1600, 147X was my top outdoor prone score, if that matters to anyone. In order to shoot that well, I actually had conditioned myself to be able to control my heartbeat. Through breathing and concentration I was able to pause my heartbeat and my breathing for a few seconds. I'd say I could pull off 2-3 seconds with no heartbeat.. which could have been much better, but I was around 60-70 BPM at that point. If I did more exercise and had managed to get to 40-50 BPM I probably could have pulled off 3-4 seconds with no heart beat. Chew on that the next time you're about to open your mouth and claim that serious long-range shooting is a joke, and that you could do it with only a few days practice. That's every bit as foolish as me claiming I could be a totally pr0 ninja, just give me a day or two to practice jumping around and climbing walls.
Maybe they're just hoping that consumers will aggro their console, even if other consoles are closer to the consumer and thus should be the ones getting attacked.
And then, after a few years of denying any such Wii-flag, Nintendo will admit that yes, there was some shenanigans with their design, and it did cause consumers to behave in strange ways contrary to what would have been expected.