Now I'm not saying humans are 100% responsible, but you can't deny that ice all over the world that has existed for thousands of years is melting (well I guess you can, if you ignore the sheets of ice turning into water).
How about the animals arriving in the north that have never been seen there before?
Yeah you can deny it all you want, and we can argue all day about the causes (until it is too late for us to do anything about them), but it is indeed happening. Wouldn't it be a real bummer if this was part of a "normal" warming cycle and because of our stupidity we tipped things too far and made the earth uninhabitable?
As someone who lives in the quite arid southwest, I would be pretty pissed if we stopped getting less rain here, and we do indeed get showers that are a direct consequence of hurricanes. So yeah, messing with the hurricanes is going to cause horrible consequences we can't even imagine right now. But at least all those million dollar beach homes won't need to be rebuilt next year.
..that badass boss dragon wouldn't just get back to its place...
This reminds me of a scene on a MUD some time ago where a player was given a book (normally impossible for a normal player to pickup, however a wizard gave it to him) that summoned a rather nasty demon when read. Said player promptly ran through town summoning demons; the player death toll was rather high.
Is the failure rate nearly bad enough to justify...
Possibly not, though after the first few weeks you could discontinue the program since all of the bad mechanics would have weeded themselves out by then.
Actually I was thinking that they should make the repair crew regularly fly on the planes they service. I would be much more trusting of repairs made by people who are planning on flying on the planes they are servicing.
Wait... running around in a big world, causing people to spend massive amounts of time traveling and not actually doing anything else in the game is... suspense?
I wonder how much money we will get from all the online subscribers this month?
The only problem is, if the very people who are needed to fight against this all flee somewhere else, that makes it much harder to keep it from getting worse here. And if you think that it will stop at the borders of America or the UK, think again.
I'm going to see if I can get mozy to work with one of my windows vmware machines. If I could get it to work for backing up a samba share that would be perfect.
Or how about, why on earth would I use something like CVS for files (movies, mp3 files, photos of my kids) that can be quite large and will never change?
I too am looking for things to help manage the huge piles of various files I have accumulated and am leaning towards something like beagle http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page and rsync/unison for backups.
Ultimately though I think dividing my files up into meaningful directories is a good start, especially if I start by putting everything that doesn't change into a subdirectory of a main directory named "Static".
BTW, most communities have laws against this kind of thing. Obviously the folks in that neighborhood were pretty tolerant of your bizarre behavior, walking down the street and peeking in windows.
One other advantage of Ren Faire gals is they can sew; your hole filled clothes will love this.
Technically I suppose surgeons can too, but probably only really useful when you have a gaping wound. Somehow asking someone who has gone through all the school, residency, and does surgery every day to sew my socks seems incredibly wrong.
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So people are just imagining the ice that is melting?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7738
Now I'm not saying humans are 100% responsible, but you can't deny that ice all over the world that has existed for thousands of years is melting (well I guess you can, if you ignore the sheets of ice turning into water).
How about the animals arriving in the north that have never been seen there before?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-and-unfamiliar-species-leave-inuit-lost-for-words-534866.html
Yeah you can deny it all you want, and we can argue all day about the causes (until it is too late for us to do anything about them), but it is indeed happening. Wouldn't it be a real bummer if this was part of a "normal" warming cycle and because of our stupidity we tipped things too far and made the earth uninhabitable?
As someone who lives in the quite arid southwest, I would be pretty pissed if we stopped getting less rain here, and we do indeed get showers that are a direct consequence of hurricanes. So yeah, messing with the hurricanes is going to cause horrible consequences we can't even imagine right now. But at least all those million dollar beach homes won't need to be rebuilt next year.
It is sorta like being run over with a free car. Or something like that.
I have keyboards older than you. Now get off my lawn!
After all, everyone knows that 78% of statistics that sound like they were made up really are.
Actually I am excited because while I have never even held a GPS unit, I'm guessing soon I will be able to get one on ebay for a few bucks.
..that badass boss dragon wouldn't just get back to its place...
This reminds me of a scene on a MUD some time ago where a player was given a book (normally impossible for a normal player to pickup, however a wizard gave it to him) that summoned a rather nasty demon when read. Said player promptly ran through town summoning demons; the player death toll was rather high.
What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?
D&D: the more you played the less likely you were to get laid.
(Queue up the, "but I only gamed with hot vixens back in high school!" responses)
Oh and I also learned that playing D&D makes you sarcastic and bitter.
Is the failure rate nearly bad enough to justify...
Possibly not, though after the first few weeks you could discontinue the program since all of the bad mechanics would have weeded themselves out by then.
Actually I was thinking that they should make the repair crew regularly fly on the planes they service. I would be much more trusting of repairs made by people who are planning on flying on the planes they are servicing.
...you'd want to spend your vacation...
Vacation? Finally, a job where I am willing to work plenty of overtime hours!
Wait ... running around in a big world, causing people to spend massive amounts of time traveling and not actually doing anything else in the game is ... suspense?
I wonder how much money we will get from all the online subscribers this month?
Oh, you meant player suspense....
The only problem is, if the very people who are needed to fight against this all flee somewhere else, that makes it much harder to keep it from getting worse here. And if you think that it will stop at the borders of America or the UK, think again.
Getting rid of you is pretty difficult without a street address. Or did you have a more specific "I" that you wanted us to get rid of?
Wait, where is my barrage of scantily clad women? And are they sending them via catapult or what?
I'm going to see if I can get mozy to work with one of my windows vmware machines. If I could get it to work for backing up a samba share that would be perfect.
Or how about, why on earth would I use something like CVS for files (movies, mp3 files, photos of my kids) that can be quite large and will never change?
I too am looking for things to help manage the huge piles of various files I have accumulated and am leaning towards something like beagle http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page and rsync/unison for backups.
Ultimately though I think dividing my files up into meaningful directories is a good start, especially if I start by putting everything that doesn't change into a subdirectory of a main directory named "Static".
Certainly better than a latex allergy. Ouch.
...windows. I looked in some of them...
BTW, most communities have laws against this kind of thing. Obviously the folks in that neighborhood were pretty tolerant of your bizarre behavior, walking down the street and peeking in windows.
One other advantage of Ren Faire gals is they can sew; your hole filled clothes will love this.
Technically I suppose surgeons can too, but probably only really useful when you have a gaping wound. Somehow asking someone who has gone through all the school, residency, and does surgery every day to sew my socks seems incredibly wrong.
Only until you are done mowing it.
I think it would be awesome if the RIAA folks regularly started getting called in as expert defense witnesses in child porn cases.
..but what about it's animal partner?
It depends on if the animal is dressed really slutty or not.
The weird thing is they somehow keep reassembling the plane and immediately crashing it again and again.
Fresh cash to persue copyright violations?
Cash for plane tickets to someplace without an extradition treaty with the US?