Sooo, people with a spare tire, first aid kit, and jack in their car are all paranoid? Apparently smoke detectors are for pussies. And how about that fire extinguisher.
Hey shit for brains, britains murder rate has always been less than the USs going back to the original founding. Oddly enough, London is more dangerous than NYC. Also interesting is that after the ban, gun violence has gone up while it continues to fall in the US as more and more states liberalize gun laws.
Actually, by the thousands implies thousands dying in a short period of time. And also, given the lax driving laws in this country when it comes to training and the relatively loose enforcement and incarceration of offenders who kill/injure others as well as the phenomenon of driving while illegal and the amount of accients that has caused, which while currently not much is on the rise, and yeah, the government sorta is at fault.
What's funny is that the laws changed by bush were really nothing more than a tightening of the existing framework. When you get right down to it, he hasn't done anything radical.
Hmph, with custom settings on medium and high except for shadows, I was able to run it at a comfortable 30 fps or so with a PIV 3.2GHZ 1.5 gigs of ram, and a vanilla 6800. Mind you, tossing shadows in would absolutely kill the framerate.
vgchartz has the PS3 at a third of the sales of the 360, and really, you have no big name titles out for it yet. What I want to know is if it's impossible to make a PS3 game on DVD because they didn't connect the DVD laser to the cell or if it's strictly a policy deal.
For the peacekeeping ops, are you including situations with major amounts of child molestation by the blue helmets as successes? Which, really, is almost all of them. Unicef is corrupt as well. As is the UNHCR and WFP. Hell, the WFP was the origin of the oil for food debacle.
The reason for the non-intervention was the same. By creating a consensus of mostly corrupt governments, a situation is created in that any action taken will be most likely met with resistance and opposition by said consensus. See Rwanda, Darfur, Zimbabwe etc.. etc..
The question is not do those gases trap heat. They do. All well and good. The question is whether adding to a specific gas that makes up less than 4% of greenhouse gases and increasing that by less than a percent will throw things that out of whack. The enviro-nuts and their political backers are saying yea, the others, nay.
Well, yeah it has a positive relationship with temperature. But that really means nothing. What you are saying is that when X(temperature) rises, a little while later Z(CO2) follows suit. Which is what the ice cores show. Unfortunately, because X was the precursor, probability dictates that Z does not cause X.
Actually, greenhouse gasses don't stop most light all that well, primarily all they stop is infrared. If you can reflect that light back as shortwave radiation, then the greenhouse gases do nothing.
Sure chaos theory says that. Of course, chaos theory only works when you can cut down severely on the number of variables and know exactly what those variables do. We are NOWHERE near that with the current CO2 based climate models.
First question, of the greenhouse gasses in the basic experiment, was 95% water vapor? Secondly, was their heat source proportionately 93 million miles away? Probably no again. Thirdly, was there are proportionately large body of water in the experiment that tended to suck up CO2 when cooler and release it when warmer? Fourthly were there clouds to interefere with the absorbtion of light and therefore heat in this mini-atmosphere of theirs? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then whoever decided to assume that the effects of that experiment have any fucking bearing on how the earth's climate is going to proceed needs to be taken out back and shot.
But gathering said empirical data and then using it without realizing what the fucking data actually shows is. Unless it's a feedback loop with CO2 and the independent variable, the CO2 levels would not follow the temperature levels by 2-800 years like they do at almost every fucking point in that special presentation graph where he's walking around stage. If it is a feedback loop, than you should also see the CO2 levels start to drop BEFORE the temperature levels, but oddly enough, that doesn't fucking happen. I wonder why? Could it in fact be because CO2, while a greenhouse gas, doesn't actually drive the temperature? Maybe it has something to do with that great big hot ball of gas 93 million miles away and it's own warming and cooling periods, which oddly fucking enough are able to change temperatures on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, but according the great fucking Al Gore and his ilk, aren't an important driver in the earths own temperature change. God damn, when the CO2 harridans' computer models can't even fucking explain the effect of clouds upon the temperature, should you really be trusting thier computer models?
SPOILERS AHEAD!In order to retire Wash's character w/o killing him they would have had to do an extremely messy scene where either Zoe left with him or he left alone. They certainly couldn't have included such a turbulent moment into the movie and kept the pace. That left killing him. As for killing off Book, that actually makes some sense, given that since he was an ex-operative his continual popping up on the radar in regards as to such an important issue(River's knowledge) the government in the firefly 'verse probably would have eliminated him anyway given their previous actions.
Simon was only completely altered in the sense that you didn't see the transition from what he was at the end of the series to where he was in the movie. Throughout the series itself, Simon's character changed dramatically in how he viewed his surroundings and his own actions. Unfortunately there was no way to follow any change in him from the time the series ended to the time the movie itself takes place.
Hmm, lessee, because Whedon wants full creative control over the storyline, which the executives at Universal are unwilling to give him, he has refused to work with Fox concerning firefly anymore after the way they treated the original season, and since there was literally no real advertising for the movie before it hit theaters, turnout was relatively low.
Cancelled serial, yes. Failure, not so much. Fox has, time and again, cancelled and fucked over series which had a chance of doing extremely well. Given that the oh so wise executives over at Fox showed the series out of order, kept changing the times the series was shown, continually placed it after sports games which went beyond their scheduled times it is genuinely amazing that it gained following as quickly as it did and that they were able to generate enough support to push a movie through.
You bring up thin plot in a discussion that references star wars and don't see the irony? By the end of four, five, and six there were already holes big enough to drive several trucks through, and by the end of one, two, and three any coherency is held together by spit and chewing gum.
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Sooo, people with a spare tire, first aid kit, and jack in their car are all paranoid? Apparently smoke detectors are for pussies. And how about that fire extinguisher.
Hey shit for brains, britains murder rate has always been less than the USs going back to the original founding. Oddly enough, London is more dangerous than NYC. Also interesting is that after the ban, gun violence has gone up while it continues to fall in the US as more and more states liberalize gun laws.
How about you shoot the asshole chaining the doors shut?
Yes, because the sitting president has fuck all to do with the court system.
Actually, by the thousands implies thousands dying in a short period of time. And also, given the lax driving laws in this country when it comes to training and the relatively loose enforcement and incarceration of offenders who kill/injure others as well as the phenomenon of driving while illegal and the amount of accients that has caused, which while currently not much is on the rise, and yeah, the government sorta is at fault.
What's funny is that the laws changed by bush were really nothing more than a tightening of the existing framework. When you get right down to it, he hasn't done anything radical.
Hmph, with custom settings on medium and high except for shadows, I was able to run it at a comfortable 30 fps or so with a PIV 3.2GHZ 1.5 gigs of ram, and a vanilla 6800. Mind you, tossing shadows in would absolutely kill the framerate.
It was either that or rats in the sewers. If you played D&D you'd know this. There are very, very few options for the start of a campaign at level 1.
vgchartz has the PS3 at a third of the sales of the 360, and really, you have no big name titles out for it yet. What I want to know is if it's impossible to make a PS3 game on DVD because they didn't connect the DVD laser to the cell or if it's strictly a policy deal.
Unless you assume unnecessary taxes are evil, in which case it was perfectly fine.
Fuck that, I want to play it in it's full glory on my PC, instead, thanks to the crapbox, I get a cut game.
For the peacekeeping ops, are you including situations with major amounts of child molestation by the blue helmets as successes? Which, really, is almost all of them. Unicef is corrupt as well. As is the UNHCR and WFP. Hell, the WFP was the origin of the oil for food debacle.
The reason for the non-intervention was the same. By creating a consensus of mostly corrupt governments, a situation is created in that any action taken will be most likely met with resistance and opposition by said consensus. See Rwanda, Darfur, Zimbabwe etc.. etc..
The question is not do those gases trap heat. They do. All well and good. The question is whether adding to a specific gas that makes up less than 4% of greenhouse gases and increasing that by less than a percent will throw things that out of whack. The enviro-nuts and their political backers are saying yea, the others, nay.
Go suck on pure O2 for 5 years. Or try to. You'll be dead within 3.
Well, yeah it has a positive relationship with temperature. But that really means nothing. What you are saying is that when X(temperature) rises, a little while later Z(CO2) follows suit. Which is what the ice cores show. Unfortunately, because X was the precursor, probability dictates that Z does not cause X.
Actually, greenhouse gasses don't stop most light all that well, primarily all they stop is infrared. If you can reflect that light back as shortwave radiation, then the greenhouse gases do nothing.
Sure chaos theory says that. Of course, chaos theory only works when you can cut down severely on the number of variables and know exactly what those variables do. We are NOWHERE near that with the current CO2 based climate models.
First question, of the greenhouse gasses in the basic experiment, was 95% water vapor? Secondly, was their heat source proportionately 93 million miles away? Probably no again. Thirdly, was there are proportionately large body of water in the experiment that tended to suck up CO2 when cooler and release it when warmer? Fourthly were there clouds to interefere with the absorbtion of light and therefore heat in this mini-atmosphere of theirs? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then whoever decided to assume that the effects of that experiment have any fucking bearing on how the earth's climate is going to proceed needs to be taken out back and shot.
But gathering said empirical data and then using it without realizing what the fucking data actually shows is. Unless it's a feedback loop with CO2 and the independent variable, the CO2 levels would not follow the temperature levels by 2-800 years like they do at almost every fucking point in that special presentation graph where he's walking around stage. If it is a feedback loop, than you should also see the CO2 levels start to drop BEFORE the temperature levels, but oddly enough, that doesn't fucking happen. I wonder why? Could it in fact be because CO2, while a greenhouse gas, doesn't actually drive the temperature? Maybe it has something to do with that great big hot ball of gas 93 million miles away and it's own warming and cooling periods, which oddly fucking enough are able to change temperatures on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, but according the great fucking Al Gore and his ilk, aren't an important driver in the earths own temperature change. God damn, when the CO2 harridans' computer models can't even fucking explain the effect of clouds upon the temperature, should you really be trusting thier computer models?
SPOILERS AHEAD!In order to retire Wash's character w/o killing him they would have had to do an extremely messy scene where either Zoe left with him or he left alone. They certainly couldn't have included such a turbulent moment into the movie and kept the pace. That left killing him. As for killing off Book, that actually makes some sense, given that since he was an ex-operative his continual popping up on the radar in regards as to such an important issue(River's knowledge) the government in the firefly 'verse probably would have eliminated him anyway given their previous actions.
Simon was only completely altered in the sense that you didn't see the transition from what he was at the end of the series to where he was in the movie. Throughout the series itself, Simon's character changed dramatically in how he viewed his surroundings and his own actions. Unfortunately there was no way to follow any change in him from the time the series ended to the time the movie itself takes place.
Hmm, lessee, because Whedon wants full creative control over the storyline, which the executives at Universal are unwilling to give him, he has refused to work with Fox concerning firefly anymore after the way they treated the original season, and since there was literally no real advertising for the movie before it hit theaters, turnout was relatively low.
Cancelled serial, yes. Failure, not so much. Fox has, time and again, cancelled and fucked over series which had a chance of doing extremely well. Given that the oh so wise executives over at Fox showed the series out of order, kept changing the times the series was shown, continually placed it after sports games which went beyond their scheduled times it is genuinely amazing that it gained following as quickly as it did and that they were able to generate enough support to push a movie through.
You bring up thin plot in a discussion that references star wars and don't see the irony? By the end of four, five, and six there were already holes big enough to drive several trucks through, and by the end of one, two, and three any coherency is held together by spit and chewing gum.