Using analogies comparing one comparison with another that denigrates the rationalization of the universe with a bag of marbles is like... well, it's stupid.
Yes, it is.;) That is the point the sig was trying to make, that and make a funny.
the speed of light is given in meters per second, etc.
I dunno... I've always speculated if light can be affected by gravity then it's really not a constant so it might be better to determine the second by the time it takes light to travel a distance relativley depending on where you on in the universe.
Which means a second here might be quite different in another part of the galaxy depending on the amount of gravity involved in your local area. Of course this could all be speculation since I haven't figured out a way to get to another part of the galaxy to prove this.
I don't mean this as a troll... What I am about to say applies to both men and women.
She could have of course chosen not to have kids with this high stress job or perhaps when deciding to have them to be in a situation better one that is inducive to raising/having kids.
Something tells me that when your doctor says you shouldn't be working because of stress at job is dangerous to your children then perhaps you should think of a career change.
I'm not saying she should give up her working life in order to be a parent, but there are some careers I don't think people either male or female should consider having kids because it is neither beneficial for the job and even detremental for the kids development. The list of jobs include stock traders, world traveling vendors, and people who defuse mines/bombs for a living...
If your job includes so much devotion to the job that it causes problems for your children. Give up that job and find another one that lets you lead a less stressful lifestyle so devote more time to your kids as well as have enough money to raise your kids and send them to college or what have you...
Just because you make $300,000 doesn't make you a good parent... It's because you can be there when they first walk, you can drop them off to school (even if you can't pick them up), read them bed time stories, go to their games or events when they are in highschool and *gasp* even take notice on a daily basis of their schoolwork.
If you think being a great parent by buying your kids nice things to keep them entertained and then you only see them for the most an hour once a week, then perhaps you should re-evaluate your way of life, because that kid might not feel he or she really has you as a parent.
Sometimes this can't be avoid with things like military service, but even then thats only temporary and not a 20 year career in which you willing decide to not see your kids due to your effort at your job.
I don't care what the criteria is, but I don't socialize with high schoolers in real life.
You're posting on slashdot aren't you?
No, but seriously... I've met 40 year old immature people and really serious 16 year olds. It's not really age.
I tend to make friends with people who can use the word "F*ck!" liberaly and all been to jail at least once in their life (including me). Personally, I find people who are rude and crude more open and more forthright and more entertaining.
I can go to work and do the office job and be serious but when I go and do things outside of that I think there is more to life than being offended by everything.
If a kid starts yelling obscenities online, it cracks me up. The world needs to be laughed out so don't take it seriously.
When I first spectated a Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow match (I did this on PC but I imagine it's similar on Xbox), one Sam Fisher put a guard in a headlock while the other Sam Fisher crouched down to put his goggles in the guard's crotch. The two young men controlling the Fishers repeated this head-lock/head-in-crotch maneuver over and over. Each time it was just completely hysterical as evidenced by the maniacal laugher I heard coming over the voice channel.
People pay to see those kind of things, you know.
Seriously, I'd like an Internet Bar where I can bring my laptop and then drink alcoholic beverages. C'mon guys... Hurry up with the idea! I'm tired of having to bring my vodka flask to coffee shop.
Do we really need a game who's basis is to sneak up behind people and kill them in hideously ghastly ways?
Yes, because I am an adult and enjoy such entertainment. However, I also enjoy Bomberman DS and Puyo Pop Fever which I like more than most violent games and would recommend for the kids.
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Well... One could make a 1,000km radius Fusion reactor at the center of Mars to make the magnetic field? Of course if you had that kind of technlogy, humans would most likely be at posthuman stage and not have to worry about things like atmophere or radiation.
If the idea is to get drinking water and/or hydrogen from local supplies, then is it really that significant that it can be done at a slightly lower latitude?
Hoo boy! Man, when the Martian tour guide said don't drink the water, they mean don't the water! I haven't had runs like that since I drank tap water in Mexico city! And even then it didn't try to crawl out of the toliet... That god for hotel plungers.
Our next responsibility is to try very very hard not to contaminate Mars with Earth-life, if we haven't already with our probes.
Mars scientist Glezzargloop was denounced by the Martian Supreme Council for suggesting that 4 billion years ago, life was created on Mars by an alien probe from planet Earth which he also stated that destroyed itself in war shortly thereafter.
"This is just blashemphy!" stated the Councils holy pontiff.
While the more secular political cheif stated "This is just utter nonsesne, everyone knows we've elvoved from furry baablooz that lived in trees! To say that we came from another planet is just nonsense and conspiracy whacky!"
The council did vote however to send it's own probe to debunk this theory even though it was question since an atomic war was about to break out with the outlanders across the ocean.
If I could use Safari I'm my computer would that not entail that I could not run IE7? Or if I could run IE7, you could safley assume I could not run Safari. Unless I got Virtual PC;)
On the flip side, I've got Firefox on all my computers regardless of OS and the interfaces and the display of HTML (sans the windows vs OS X menus) are pretty much universal.
This breakdown is similar to the levy collected in the US on music CD-Rs -- it's primarily for the benefit of artists, with record companies getting the small slice of the pie.
I wasn't award there was a CDR tax in the states? When did this happen? They seem as cheap as ever to me, but maybe I was buying the discs that say "Data CD-Rs" on them all this time.
Things that we already know that may make this movie not suck:
1. No hell. 2. No Doom Space Marine armor. 3. The guy was supposed to be the last person alive.
What we don't know that may make this movie not suck:
1. The virus came from hell. 2. The Rock weilds a chainsaw, double barrel shotgun, and the BFG all before the end of the movie. 3. The Rock is last person alive, dons on the Doom Space Marine armor, and takes the super stim pack and starts a World Wrestling Federation type of scene with the end demon and punches it's head off after body slamming it and then doing a double suflex off the top rope while playing the E1M1 sound track with real guitar riffs and at the closing scene goes back to earth and the rabbits head is on a pike while the cities are smoldering.
"You have as much power to move Mount Fuji as you do in deciding when and how to breathe."
Thats a Zen Koan for the life of me I can't find the source for... Maybe it was the Microsoft thing. But the statment makes one think about how much one has control over reality. You can't stop breathing, but you can obviously control it's rate and amount you intake (even take it to extremes via Martial Arts training or meditation) That is how life is. The trick is how to breathe with things you can't control at least through outwards appearance.
2. The Devil's Rejects - House of 1,000 corpses part 2
3. Wedding Crashers - Seems awfully familiar to most Kevin Spacey movies
4. Time Burton's Corpses Bride - Nightmare Before Christmas 2
5. The 40 Year Old Virgin - Well I can't think of any movies offhand but this is slashdot mind you so not too original here... I jest! Please save your mod points for Patent debates stories!;)
Least they won't get a chance to make a Doom movie without hell or a Halo movie without Halo Armor... I guess they could make a movie without Greek/Roman gods... Oh wait... I might be giving them ideas.
For that matter, would I be the first guy to have sex in Space?
Look... If you had more than $100 million to blow on gonig to space, you'd would have most likely used it to have sex way before then. You could basically buy an island for that much and import women from all over the world and be bored by sex by the time you wake and say "Hey, I have to much money and I'm bored of spending it on women today. Maybe I should go to them moon instead."
So, you're going to need a whole lot more than $100 million before you reach that point.
Just because something isn't on iTunes doesn't mean you should rip it off of P2P. If you're aware of a particular local musician, you likely have the wherewithal to buy the CD.
Actually, on occasion, we put our bands songs on the net through P2P services mostly to get it out there for someone to randomly download and then want some more. What is to say that the other local bands aren't doing the same?
I can think about 50 things that are more important than sex in video games.
High gas prices and email spam being two of them.
And then there are those life threatening war related things such as finding WMD's and Osama Bin Laden or just making making a big fuss on why on earth we didn't find either instead of spending all this effort into complaining about sex in a video game.
It's like complaining that the radio is too risque after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. To sum it up bluntly:
FOR F***S SAKE PEOPLE WE ARE AT WAR!!! PEOPLE ARE DYING ON A DAILY BASIS AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS SEX IN A VIDEO GAME!
So... Umm... Yeah... I should write a letter to Hillary, because I would like to see a woman in the Whitehouse, but I think she needs to talk about important issues instead of things like this.
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Using analogies comparing one comparison with another that denigrates the rationalization of the universe with a bag of marbles is like... well, it's stupid. Yes, it is. ;) That is the point the sig was trying to make, that and make a funny.
the speed of light is given in meters per second, etc.
I dunno... I've always speculated if light can be affected by gravity then it's really not a constant so it might be better to determine the second by the time it takes light to travel a distance relativley depending on where you on in the universe.
Which means a second here might be quite different in another part of the galaxy depending on the amount of gravity involved in your local area. Of course this could all be speculation since I haven't figured out a way to get to another part of the galaxy to prove this.
I don't mean this as a troll... What I am about to say applies to both men and women.
She could have of course chosen not to have kids with this high stress job or perhaps when deciding to have them to be in a situation better one that is inducive to raising/having kids.
Something tells me that when your doctor says you shouldn't be working because of stress at job is dangerous to your children then perhaps you should think of a career change.
I'm not saying she should give up her working life in order to be a parent, but there are some careers I don't think people either male or female should consider having kids because it is neither beneficial for the job and even detremental for the kids development. The list of jobs include stock traders, world traveling vendors, and people who defuse mines/bombs for a living...
If your job includes so much devotion to the job that it causes problems for your children. Give up that job and find another one that lets you lead a less stressful lifestyle so devote more time to your kids as well as have enough money to raise your kids and send them to college or what have you...
Just because you make $300,000 doesn't make you a good parent... It's because you can be there when they first walk, you can drop them off to school (even if you can't pick them up), read them bed time stories, go to their games or events when they are in highschool and *gasp* even take notice on a daily basis of their schoolwork.
If you think being a great parent by buying your kids nice things to keep them entertained and then you only see them for the most an hour once a week, then perhaps you should re-evaluate your way of life, because that kid might not feel he or she really has you as a parent.
Sometimes this can't be avoid with things like military service, but even then thats only temporary and not a 20 year career in which you willing decide to not see your kids due to your effort at your job.
I don't care what the criteria is, but I don't socialize with high schoolers in real life.
You're posting on slashdot aren't you?
No, but seriously... I've met 40 year old immature people and really serious 16 year olds. It's not really age.
I tend to make friends with people who can use the word "F*ck!" liberaly and all been to jail at least once in their life (including me). Personally, I find people who are rude and crude more open and more forthright and more entertaining.
I can go to work and do the office job and be serious but when I go and do things outside of that I think there is more to life than being offended by everything.
If a kid starts yelling obscenities online, it cracks me up. The world needs to be laughed out so don't take it seriously.
When I first spectated a Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow match (I did this on PC but I imagine it's similar on Xbox), one Sam Fisher put a guard in a headlock while the other Sam Fisher crouched down to put his goggles in the guard's crotch. The two young men controlling the Fishers repeated this head-lock/head-in-crotch maneuver over and over. Each time it was just completely hysterical as evidenced by the maniacal laugher I heard coming over the voice channel. People pay to see those kind of things, you know.
But, if it has a thinking brain, I thought we could just throw the computer in jail!
Seriously, I'd like an Internet Bar where I can bring my laptop and then drink alcoholic beverages. C'mon guys... Hurry up with the idea! I'm tired of having to bring my vodka flask to coffee shop.
Do we really need a game who's basis is to sneak up behind people and kill them in hideously ghastly ways?
Yes, because I am an adult and enjoy such entertainment. However, I also enjoy Bomberman DS and Puyo Pop Fever which I like more than most violent games and would recommend for the kids.
Well... One could make a 1,000km radius Fusion reactor at the center of Mars to make the magnetic field? Of course if you had that kind of technlogy, humans would most likely be at posthuman stage and not have to worry about things like atmophere or radiation.
If the idea is to get drinking water and/or hydrogen from local supplies, then is it really that significant that it can be done at a slightly lower latitude?
Hoo boy! Man, when the Martian tour guide said don't drink the water, they mean don't the water! I haven't had runs like that since I drank tap water in Mexico city! And even then it didn't try to crawl out of the toliet... That god for hotel plungers.
Our next responsibility is to try very very hard not to contaminate Mars with Earth-life, if we haven't already with our probes.
Mars scientist Glezzargloop was denounced by the Martian Supreme Council for suggesting that 4 billion years ago, life was created on Mars by an alien probe from planet Earth which he also stated that destroyed itself in war shortly thereafter.
"This is just blashemphy!" stated the Councils holy pontiff.
While the more secular political cheif stated "This is just utter nonsesne, everyone knows we've elvoved from furry baablooz that lived in trees! To say that we came from another planet is just nonsense and conspiracy whacky!"
The council did vote however to send it's own probe to debunk this theory even though it was question since an atomic war was about to break out with the outlanders across the ocean.
You want IE7? Use Safari or Firefox.
;)
If I could use Safari I'm my computer would that not entail that I could not run IE7? Or if I could run IE7, you could safley assume I could not run Safari. Unless I got Virtual PC
On the flip side, I've got Firefox on all my computers regardless of OS and the interfaces and the display of HTML (sans the windows vs OS X menus) are pretty much universal.
This breakdown is similar to the levy collected in the US on music CD-Rs -- it's primarily for the benefit of artists, with record companies getting the small slice of the pie.
I wasn't award there was a CDR tax in the states? When did this happen? They seem as cheap as ever to me, but maybe I was buying the discs that say "Data CD-Rs" on them all this time.
Whoops... The first line should say "make this movie suck". Would you really think that not having hell in the movie would make it not suck?
Things that we already know that may make this movie not suck:
1. No hell.
2. No Doom Space Marine armor.
3. The guy was supposed to be the last person alive.
What we don't know that may make this movie not suck:
1. The virus came from hell.
2. The Rock weilds a chainsaw, double barrel shotgun, and the BFG all before the end of the movie.
3. The Rock is last person alive, dons on the Doom Space Marine armor, and takes the super stim pack and starts a World Wrestling Federation type of scene with the end demon and punches it's head off after body slamming it and then doing a double suflex off the top rope while playing the E1M1 sound track with real guitar riffs and at the closing scene goes back to earth and the rabbits head is on a pike while the cities are smoldering.
But one can only hope...
I think I'd rather focus on things I can affect.
"You have as much power to move Mount Fuji as you do in deciding when and how to breathe."
Thats a Zen Koan for the life of me I can't find the source for... Maybe it was the Microsoft thing. But the statment makes one think about how much one has control over reality. You can't stop breathing, but you can obviously control it's rate and amount you intake (even take it to extremes via Martial Arts training or meditation) That is how life is. The trick is how to breathe with things you can't control at least through outwards appearance.
One can pretty much conclusivly say that we aren't that fucked - why you ask?
...yet.
Reality is a computer simulation and CEE's (Civilization Ending Events) haven't been programmed...
Next question?
Hey, it looks like my IE "works" even with all my services on.
1. The Island - Seems awfully familiar to Gattica
;)
2. The Devil's Rejects - House of 1,000 corpses part 2
3. Wedding Crashers - Seems awfully familiar to most Kevin Spacey movies
4. Time Burton's Corpses Bride - Nightmare Before Christmas 2
5. The 40 Year Old Virgin - Well I can't think of any movies offhand but this is slashdot mind you so not too original here... I jest! Please save your mod points for Patent debates stories!
Least they won't get a chance to make a Doom movie without hell or a Halo movie without Halo Armor... I guess they could make a movie without Greek/Roman gods... Oh wait... I might be giving them ideas.
It comes down to. . . Do you want to keep up with eventually the latest games, or stay with your old pac man portable?
My Nintendo DS seems to play Pac Attack just fine. Oh wait a minute...
For that matter, would I be the first guy to have sex in Space?
Look... If you had more than $100 million to blow on gonig to space, you'd would have most likely used it to have sex way before then. You could basically buy an island for that much and import women from all over the world and be bored by sex by the time you wake and say "Hey, I have to much money and I'm bored of spending it on women today. Maybe I should go to them moon instead."
So, you're going to need a whole lot more than $100 million before you reach that point.
Just because something isn't on iTunes doesn't mean you should rip it off of P2P. If you're aware of a particular local musician, you likely have the wherewithal to buy the CD.
Actually, on occasion, we put our bands songs on the net through P2P services mostly to get it out there for someone to randomly download and then want some more. What is to say that the other local bands aren't doing the same?
I can think about 50 things that are more important than sex in video games.
High gas prices and email spam being two of them.
And then there are those life threatening war related things such as finding WMD's and Osama Bin Laden or just making making a big fuss on why on earth we didn't find either instead of spending all this effort into complaining about sex in a video game.
It's like complaining that the radio is too risque after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. To sum it up bluntly:
FOR F***S SAKE PEOPLE WE ARE AT WAR!!! PEOPLE ARE DYING ON A DAILY BASIS AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS SEX IN A VIDEO GAME!
So... Umm... Yeah... I should write a letter to Hillary, because I would like to see a woman in the Whitehouse, but I think she needs to talk about important issues instead of things like this.
Japan didn't have 2 billion people, a land mass in equal size as ours, and didn't own $750 billion dollars of our national debt.