Oh shit, that's a good idea! I bet the problem is the developers didn't know _how_ to deal with the problem, not that they forgot or didn't think it necessary! It's a damned shame they didn't have an expert like you on the team, you'd have set them straight.
And, with any luck, most of our current infrastructure will be destroyed. If it is, whatever ruling systems arise after anarchy will be very localized, and almost assuredly better than what we have now.
Why for example do they confiscate tubes of toothpaste or shampoo bottles potentially containing explosive materials, only to throw them out in the trash unchecked? Why do cleaners and garbage workers handle these supposedly dangerous contraband unprotected?
Remember the story they made up for that one: the tubes contain components of liquid explosives, which would have been mixed in the lavatory to make the explosives. The tubes don't contain explosives themselves.
Of course, the story's bogus, because the components of liquid explosives are dangerous too. I'm just saying they could justify it if necessary.
I don't own the game, a friend does. You're perfectly correct, if I could afford the game I could have a drum set. I think you are over-analyzing it, personally. Rock Band may help with reading tabs and such, but honestly, it doesn't matter - it's the most fun I've ever had without women or hydrocodone (and it can definitely give the latter a run for its money). That's enough for me.
In terms of the mechanics, sure, but that's the easiest part of playing the drums. Rock Band's timing is forgiving enough that you can correct your timing over several bars. Real drummers don't have the soundtrack correcting their slightly mistimed hits, and a drummer whose tempo would fluctuate wildly until his bassist killed him could do fine on Rock Band. You can usually get a good idea of whether a Rock Band drummer would be a good drummer from the free-form solos - if he stays on the beat during the longer solos, his timing is likely good enough for a real band. Most drummers, even the ones who are good at the game, either hit drums wildly and randomly then use the bass to get back on beat after the solo, or drift off the beat and correct themselves at the end.
I quite agree. I'm not a drummer, though I think I was born to be one (always wanted to, never was allowed growing up and can't afford drums now), and I keep having to drastically weaken my blows because I'm whaling away and I'm worried I'll break the drums. Also, they're so bloody small and close together I can't flail around while playing like God intended. It's a problem.
over here in the UK those who don't vote are considered to be, rather than lazy/disinterested/unimpressed, content with the currently-elected party.
That doesn't even make sense. If insufficient voter turnout automatically kept the incumbent party in power, then perhaps that would be the case, but not voting doesn't contribute to the success of either party. Those content with the incumbents have to vote to keep them in, the same as people who want them out.
I could point out that the personal address at the end of your sentence should ideally be separated from the sentence by a comma, but that would just be nitpicking, and could go either way anyway. And what kind of jackass corrects someone's grammar on an issue that could really go either way with no loss of clarity?
Man, I hate to be this cynical, but yes. For many people, it is that hard. People spend almost all their time doing things they don't want to do, for no reason at all. If someone tells them to look something up on wikipedia or read 6 e-mails or get stock updates on their mobile phones, they'll do it, then complain about their information overload.
When we do, it will be the greatest feat of engineering ever, and I will party like hell.
It'd be more of a triumph for analytical and organic chemistry, really. Analytical chemistry provides the high-resolution structure of the various components, and organic chemistry provides the reactions to synthesize them - all the engineers would be doing, is putting everything in the right order. It would require precision, certainly, but I'd assign more credit to the chemists.
You missed the point of the comic, or are deliberately misusing it. The comic is about people who think it's funny to respond to an actual girl with "pixx0rz pl0x", while the post you responded to jokingly accused someone expressing a stereotypically female point of view of being female. Completely different situations.
That's my pet theory about why stoners rarely get into accidents the way drunk drivers do -- stoners have more time to react while drunks have less time.
Yeah, that's much better than positing that pot doesn't affect perception and motor skills necessary for safe driving, while alcohol does.
Ugh. You're still doing it. You wouldn't initially assume this can't occur - it's a very well-known phenomenon that time seems to slow down in times of crisis. You only think it's obvious that it doesn't actually occur, because you've been told the results of the study. If they'd reported the opposite, you'd say it wasn't interesting because it was worded in the format "Does [some common event that everyone knows happens] occur? Study says: Yes. Yes it did."
The study was measuring the PERCEPTION of the passage of time. If you could have definitively predicted the results of this study beforehand, then congratulations! You know more about neurology than anyone on earth!
Oh, shut the fuck up. You'd have said the same thing if they'd reported that the brain went into overdrive and could read the faster-than-normal numbers.
Well, I'm sure about clams, and I can tell you they have no preference either way.
And they didn't kill it to prove it was the oldest living animal. They brought up a bunch of clams, started measuring ages, and found one of the dead ones had been 405 years old.
If Yahoo answers doesn't let them cheat all that well, than why is there a problem?
Because the students are learning things which are incorrect. They're going through life not only ignorant, but actually misinformed.
The student who did the proper research still gets a passing grade, and the student who tried to 'cheat' did suffers for it.
This will sound like heresy to many, but there *are* things in life which matter more than grades. Things like level of knowledge and understanding, which aren't really reflected by grades.
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Just a heads-up, it's generally considered improper to seek a wife from one's own home.
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Oh shit, that's a good idea! I bet the problem is the developers didn't know _how_ to deal with the problem, not that they forgot or didn't think it necessary! It's a damned shame they didn't have an expert like you on the team, you'd have set them straight.
No, but you get entertainment. Also, you get to annoy pissfilters like Anonymous Coward.
And, with any luck, most of our current infrastructure will be destroyed. If it is, whatever ruling systems arise after anarchy will be very localized, and almost assuredly better than what we have now.
Of course, the story's bogus, because the components of liquid explosives are dangerous too. I'm just saying they could justify it if necessary.
I don't own the game, a friend does. You're perfectly correct, if I could afford the game I could have a drum set. I think you are over-analyzing it, personally. Rock Band may help with reading tabs and such, but honestly, it doesn't matter - it's the most fun I've ever had without women or hydrocodone (and it can definitely give the latter a run for its money). That's enough for me.
In terms of the mechanics, sure, but that's the easiest part of playing the drums. Rock Band's timing is forgiving enough that you can correct your timing over several bars. Real drummers don't have the soundtrack correcting their slightly mistimed hits, and a drummer whose tempo would fluctuate wildly until his bassist killed him could do fine on Rock Band. You can usually get a good idea of whether a Rock Band drummer would be a good drummer from the free-form solos - if he stays on the beat during the longer solos, his timing is likely good enough for a real band. Most drummers, even the ones who are good at the game, either hit drums wildly and randomly then use the bass to get back on beat after the solo, or drift off the beat and correct themselves at the end.
I quite agree. I'm not a drummer, though I think I was born to be one (always wanted to, never was allowed growing up and can't afford drums now), and I keep having to drastically weaken my blows because I'm whaling away and I'm worried I'll break the drums. Also, they're so bloody small and close together I can't flail around while playing like God intended. It's a problem.
Well, shit. I completely overlooked the second sentence of your post. Mod parent down. (Should have previewed the parent post, I guess...)
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1855/britneyisnolongerhot2yrrb9.jpg
Didn't notice until now but, from the filename, it seems this is that picture's 3rd time on imageshack. Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural#Plurals_of_symbols_and_initialisms
I could point out that the personal address at the end of your sentence should ideally be separated from the sentence by a comma, but that would just be nitpicking, and could go either way anyway. And what kind of jackass corrects someone's grammar on an issue that could really go either way with no loss of clarity?
Man, I hate to be this cynical, but yes. For many people, it is that hard. People spend almost all their time doing things they don't want to do, for no reason at all. If someone tells them to look something up on wikipedia or read 6 e-mails or get stock updates on their mobile phones, they'll do it, then complain about their information overload.
Since when are people anti-social?
You missed the point of the comic, or are deliberately misusing it. The comic is about people who think it's funny to respond to an actual girl with "pixx0rz pl0x", while the post you responded to jokingly accused someone expressing a stereotypically female point of view of being female. Completely different situations.
Ugh. You're still doing it. You wouldn't initially assume this can't occur - it's a very well-known phenomenon that time seems to slow down in times of crisis. You only think it's obvious that it doesn't actually occur, because you've been told the results of the study. If they'd reported the opposite, you'd say it wasn't interesting because it was worded in the format "Does [some common event that everyone knows happens] occur? Study says: Yes. Yes it did."
The study was measuring the PERCEPTION of the passage of time. If you could have definitively predicted the results of this study beforehand, then congratulations! You know more about neurology than anyone on earth!
Oh, shut the fuck up. You'd have said the same thing if they'd reported that the brain went into overdrive and could read the faster-than-normal numbers.
Well, I'm sure about clams, and I can tell you they have no preference either way.
And they didn't kill it to prove it was the oldest living animal. They brought up a bunch of clams, started measuring ages, and found one of the dead ones had been 405 years old.
And if the schools were teaching students the dangers of alcohol, they would learn very quickly not to drink, right?