Direct effects of CO2 aren't what we're worried about, humans are fairly resilient. It's what the changing temperatures mean to agriculture that's the primary issue, we rely on that to get our food and you can be pretty damn sure that in the case of famine the leaders who got us into this mess will still have privileged access to the food pool and it's the lower classes who had no say in the policy and don't even understand the mechanics involved (though some believe they do because of the media trying to mislead them) that will starve instead.
Sure, mankind as a whole will not go extinct. We are too resilient for that, maybe not as much as cockroaches but certainly one of the most resilient species out there (and I'm pretty sure that even if a nuclear war broke out there'd still be enough humans left to maintain the species because we are EVERYWHERE and there's bound to be some places that nobody bothered nuking). We will however face some catastrophes that we rather wouldn't.
If you simplify it like that, sure. Simplifying science tends to turn it into nonsense that may get you a vague impression of what it's about but will not allow you to actually utilize it to make predictions. Opponents of science like those "intelligent design" idiots utilize that effect to ridicule science, they simplify it until it fits into one phrase and then complain that the simplified version does not work when applied to complex situations.
To be fair I heard an anecdote (from a drill instructor) about trained soldiers dislocating their shoulders when firing a 7.68mm assault rifle because they've only used 5.56mm rifles before.
You decide on how to handle cheaters? Over here universities put it in their rules that cheating means an instant failure, possibly with further repercussions.
ICBMs go very high so you don't have to be terribly close to get a line of fire to them with a laser while they are still ascending, especially if the laser is mounted on a plane. You cannot intercept them once they reach space and the warheads separate, you've simply got way too many targets then. Laser interception usually works by igniting fuel or explosives on the target, post-separation nuclear warheads don't carry much directly explosive stuff, just enough to initiate the fission (and it will probably be fairly heat resistant since it has to withstand reentry without exploding prematurely). I think for intercepting the warheads your only real choice is a missile to blow them apart.
I don't know about your home connection but mine does only ~30kB/sec upload. That can easily become a bottleneck, never mind the unnecessary latency that adds.
Even more so because Activision owns Blizzard and was to blame for the price of MW2. They know that SC2 will sell a lot so they'll price it at 60, probably with some assholeish remarks from Bobby Kotick to go along with it.
X3? Wasn't the only paid expansion for that Terran Conflict which came several years after the main game? To my knowledge there was a gigantic pool of free content released for that game (they advertise it on the version 2.0 retail boxes).
That's only if they started developing SC2 immediately after SC1. Wouldn't that team have worked on Warcraft 3 at least?
Running on netbooks wouldn't be weird though, Blizzard knows that low system requirements are an important ingredient in their formula for success. World of Warcraft was much less demanding than other contemporary MMORPGs.
Go ahead and use it then, your second amendment won't do shit if you just sit at home and brag about having it. Wouldn't surprise me if the existence of the second amendment actually made people more complacent because that "security blanket" is always there even though actually using it would be too hard. Sure, take it away and you've got riots but it doesn't look like keeping it will actually do anything to hinder the rights erosion so it can safely ignored and lull the couch revolutionaries in their dreams of defeating all this police state malarkey... some other day.
The PIN would be sent to the bank but the MitM tells the card that you didn't enter a PIN, just sign on the dotted line and that's what the card tells the bank, it doesn't even know you entered a PIN.
You can still check what the response for the entered PIN is, if it doesn't say "correct" on two different PINs you can just take the result given at the entered PIN.
I've started backing up before I had a catastrophic failure though I did have quite a few HDDs fail gradually and having to get the data out there before the disk completely dies.
Actually the EU loved sharing that data because the strong data protection laws in the EU make it hard for them to search that data, by sharing it to the US and having them share it back all that pesky privacy that the citizenry values so much could be ignored. Only by increasing the power of the elected parts of the EU government was this repealed. It was kicked because the people of the EU don't want that data shared, not because of some political independence talk.
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I think he's talking about dumped mustard gas weapons that may have ended up in the blast radius of these mines.
Since when are corals plants?
How many species of plant only live within the blast radius of these 70 mines?
But it isn't Soviet Russia.
That's just the US.
Direct effects of CO2 aren't what we're worried about, humans are fairly resilient. It's what the changing temperatures mean to agriculture that's the primary issue, we rely on that to get our food and you can be pretty damn sure that in the case of famine the leaders who got us into this mess will still have privileged access to the food pool and it's the lower classes who had no say in the policy and don't even understand the mechanics involved (though some believe they do because of the media trying to mislead them) that will starve instead.
Sure, mankind as a whole will not go extinct. We are too resilient for that, maybe not as much as cockroaches but certainly one of the most resilient species out there (and I'm pretty sure that even if a nuclear war broke out there'd still be enough humans left to maintain the species because we are EVERYWHERE and there's bound to be some places that nobody bothered nuking). We will however face some catastrophes that we rather wouldn't.
Appeal to consequences. Whether AGW is true or not is independent of whether it is beneficial for us to be true or not.
If you simplify it like that, sure. Simplifying science tends to turn it into nonsense that may get you a vague impression of what it's about but will not allow you to actually utilize it to make predictions. Opponents of science like those "intelligent design" idiots utilize that effect to ridicule science, they simplify it until it fits into one phrase and then complain that the simplified version does not work when applied to complex situations.
To be fair I heard an anecdote (from a drill instructor) about trained soldiers dislocating their shoulders when firing a 7.68mm assault rifle because they've only used 5.56mm rifles before.
You decide on how to handle cheaters? Over here universities put it in their rules that cheating means an instant failure, possibly with further repercussions.
ICBMs go very high so you don't have to be terribly close to get a line of fire to them with a laser while they are still ascending, especially if the laser is mounted on a plane. You cannot intercept them once they reach space and the warheads separate, you've simply got way too many targets then. Laser interception usually works by igniting fuel or explosives on the target, post-separation nuclear warheads don't carry much directly explosive stuff, just enough to initiate the fission (and it will probably be fairly heat resistant since it has to withstand reentry without exploding prematurely). I think for intercepting the warheads your only real choice is a missile to blow them apart.
Save to a separate autosave file and prompt the user to restore that if the autosave is newer than the manual save on load?
I don't know about your home connection but mine does only ~30kB/sec upload. That can easily become a bottleneck, never mind the unnecessary latency that adds.
Even more so because Activision owns Blizzard and was to blame for the price of MW2. They know that SC2 will sell a lot so they'll price it at 60, probably with some assholeish remarks from Bobby Kotick to go along with it.
X3? Wasn't the only paid expansion for that Terran Conflict which came several years after the main game? To my knowledge there was a gigantic pool of free content released for that game (they advertise it on the version 2.0 retail boxes).
That's only if they started developing SC2 immediately after SC1. Wouldn't that team have worked on Warcraft 3 at least?
Running on netbooks wouldn't be weird though, Blizzard knows that low system requirements are an important ingredient in their formula for success. World of Warcraft was much less demanding than other contemporary MMORPGs.
Go ahead and use it then, your second amendment won't do shit if you just sit at home and brag about having it. Wouldn't surprise me if the existence of the second amendment actually made people more complacent because that "security blanket" is always there even though actually using it would be too hard. Sure, take it away and you've got riots but it doesn't look like keeping it will actually do anything to hinder the rights erosion so it can safely ignored and lull the couch revolutionaries in their dreams of defeating all this police state malarkey... some other day.
Wouldn't he qualify more as the false prophet than the anti-christ?
Now it doesn't come as a surprise that someone named Mal-2 would know that much about drugs but I'd have thought you would recommend Black Alamout.
The PIN would be sent to the bank but the MitM tells the card that you didn't enter a PIN, just sign on the dotted line and that's what the card tells the bank, it doesn't even know you entered a PIN.
You can still check what the response for the entered PIN is, if it doesn't say "correct" on two different PINs you can just take the result given at the entered PIN.
Except paper ballots can be thrown away, making your vote not count.
I've started backing up before I had a catastrophic failure though I did have quite a few HDDs fail gradually and having to get the data out there before the disk completely dies.
We're talking about computers, they can do stuff automatically. In this case autosave before printing.
Actually the EU loved sharing that data because the strong data protection laws in the EU make it hard for them to search that data, by sharing it to the US and having them share it back all that pesky privacy that the citizenry values so much could be ignored. Only by increasing the power of the elected parts of the EU government was this repealed. It was kicked because the people of the EU don't want that data shared, not because of some political independence talk.