Suppose you've sent $100 down the drain. Now you're facing the option of investing $10 for a $50 profit. Of course you're going to take it - who the fuck cares that in the long run, you'll still be down $60? Better than being $100 behind! What's gone is gone. Doesn't mean they should go out of business, and doesn't mean they shouldn't create a completely new game, which they'll name Duke Nukem Forever.
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Mind recommending a cheaper site, which ships internationally? Preferably one that's based in the UK, so shipments to Israel would be cheaper?
Not the word for "of"; the word for "if" is written the same way as (one of the variations of) the word "mother". And boy, was I embarrassed by this story...
Not only dumb - unethical, too. What the fuck gives him the right to give you an A you don't deserve? It's not his to give. Corrupt SOB. A teacher a the university I attend has given five points bonus to students who translated his PowerPoint presentation for him. What next, wash his car?!
Imagining the Japanese around watching the shit covered gai-jin in the airport gives me a new appreciation for the expression "fresh off the boat". Thank you for this SUPER story.
All true (exaggerations aside), but nevertheless, Serenity was a work of art and Star Wars a piece of shit (unless you treat it as a movie for kids, which it actually was. In that case it's a decent one). Serenity won't be talked about in mainstream media, but people with good taste will remember it fondly and recommend it to future generations, and it would probably still be enjoyed by fringe audiences for at least as long as the original Star Wars movies will last.
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Sun Tzu + Slashdot + magnets & wire = new source for renewable energy?
You're forgetting that the space junk is travelling at similar speeds, not hanging there in the same altitude as the plane in waiting. The window is a split second when the two can actually collide. The biggest actual hazard is probably caused by the turbulences created by that falling junk.
Those places your friend would never see have been documented by thousands of people before you. Your friends had already seen the interesting ones. They smile and nod as you show them the pictures out of courtesy. No one has ever of their own accord asked you to show them the photos (unless they were trying to get in your pants).
Sure, on-duty astronauts use diapers and there's nothing strange about it, but they do so out of necessity. Choosing to drive 900 miles with you pelvis soaked in piss and shit, on the other hand...
Space is indeed really really big. So are the effects of exponential population growth. So are the costs of transportation. A habitable planet nearby may be worth much more than dozens way out there. Also, it's not impossible that a sufficiently advanced race would find uses for any bit of mass it could get its hands on. Asteroids? Metals! Gas giant? Future planets!
The real hole in most Sci-Fi plots (The Mote in God's Eye doesn't fall there, for example) is how alien races don't treat each other as mostly threat. We humans wouldn't be interested in preventing the extinction of, say, tigers, if they were still a threat to us. Or even simply competition. What kind of evolutionary fluke would produce a successful race that would be willing to give up, of the "goodness" of its "heart", colonizable planets? And for the COMPETITION none the less? Come on!
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Suppose you've sent $100 down the drain. Now you're facing the option of investing $10 for a $50 profit. Of course you're going to take it - who the fuck cares that in the long run, you'll still be down $60? Better than being $100 behind! What's gone is gone. Doesn't mean they should go out of business, and doesn't mean they shouldn't create a completely new game, which they'll name Duke Nukem Forever.
Mind recommending a cheaper site, which ships internationally? Preferably one that's based in the UK, so shipments to Israel would be cheaper?
Not the word for "of"; the word for "if" is written the same way as (one of the variations of) the word "mother".
And boy, was I embarrassed by this story...
Not only dumb - unethical, too. What the fuck gives him the right to give you an A you don't deserve? It's not his to give. Corrupt SOB. A teacher a the university I attend has given five points bonus to students who translated his PowerPoint presentation for him. What next, wash his car?!
My thoughts exactly.
People suffering from recognized medical disabilities aren't labelled as kooks.
Imagining the Japanese around watching the shit covered gai-jin in the airport gives me a new appreciation for the expression "fresh off the boat". Thank you for this SUPER story.
Women can crap in wall mounted urinals, but not piss in them, if I understand their mechanics correctly.
Where did you get all this bullshit?
It was in response to "please mod me up for spelling X correctly", which the idiot who modded me "offtopic" clearly didn't understand.
Me, I don't visit fark.com.
You said Penny-Arcade twice.
kthnxbye
The fourth (fifth) area is apparently mathematics.
Please mod me up for not raping my aunt.
All true (exaggerations aside), but nevertheless, Serenity was a work of art and Star Wars a piece of shit (unless you treat it as a movie for kids, which it actually was. In that case it's a decent one). Serenity won't be talked about in mainstream media, but people with good taste will remember it fondly and recommend it to future generations, and it would probably still be enjoyed by fringe audiences for at least as long as the original Star Wars movies will last.
All normal miracles performed by yet another of god's chosen prophets, when compared with the old testament.
You're forgetting that the space junk is travelling at similar speeds, not hanging there in the same altitude as the plane in waiting. The window is a split second when the two can actually collide. The biggest actual hazard is probably caused by the turbulences created by that falling junk.
Those places your friend would never see have been documented by thousands of people before you. Your friends had already seen the interesting ones. They smile and nod as you show them the pictures out of courtesy. No one has ever of their own accord asked you to show them the photos (unless they were trying to get in your pants).
Sure, on-duty astronauts use diapers and there's nothing strange about it, but they do so out of necessity. Choosing to drive 900 miles with you pelvis soaked in piss and shit, on the other hand...
Space is indeed really really big. So are the effects of exponential population growth. So are the costs of transportation. A habitable planet nearby may be worth much more than dozens way out there. Also, it's not impossible that a sufficiently advanced race would find uses for any bit of mass it could get its hands on. Asteroids? Metals! Gas giant? Future planets!
The real hole in most Sci-Fi plots (The Mote in God's Eye doesn't fall there, for example) is how alien races don't treat each other as mostly threat. We humans wouldn't be interested in preventing the extinction of, say, tigers, if they were still a threat to us. Or even simply competition. What kind of evolutionary fluke would produce a successful race that would be willing to give up, of the "goodness" of its "heart", colonizable planets? And for the COMPETITION none the less? Come on!
The guys in the promotional video they have there are overly smug.