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Ah. The old "youth is everything, experience is irrelevant" approach. The movers of this new culture can facebrag about it as they pass their hand me ups to their decrepit, tweetless, senile elders (anyone over 25).
They also demonstrated the silliest thing about it, or any 200+ MPH car... It takes quite a while to get to those speeds. You may get 0-60 in 3 seconds, but the acceleration drops off rather rapidly. About the only place you can get a car like that up to speed *is* a test track with an enormous straight.
I think it must have been 8 miles or more because they commented that the far end was out of sight due to the Earth's curvature!
A guy tried driving a super-Ferrari (an Enzo, I think) like that here in Southern California a few years back. yeah, You guessed it. Mr. Supercar? Meet Mr. Telephone Pole. Sadly, the dumbass driving it survived.
Another show mentioned how fragile they are. When they are featured on a show or test track, supercar makers box them up like ancient relics and ship them there. Contrast to the episode with the McClaren SLK that was simply driven to the filming site from two countries away.
Isn't the ZPE what supports the universe and provides a place for all those little superstrings to play? You might collapse the false vacuum or something.;-)
I heard there were two. Ravin' Cliff Racers and House Hlaalu Party. There's a minigame in one of them where you waggle the Wiimote to string random letters together to create names for newly discovered Daedric ruins.
Madworld was interesting, but I returned the rental after beating the first boss. The controls weren't so hot. All the game did was make me miss the right stick for controlling the camera. I kept approaching enemies in round about ways to get the camera oriented the way I wanted (at a spike wall, for example) when I grabbed them. The monochromatic graphics were cool initially, but they made the eyes weary after a while.
I think there is way too much blaming of the banks/investment groups/etc in this whole financial crisis, and not enough light being cast on individuals.
A local radio show had bank employees (and former employees) calling in with their tales. One guy had a loan approval officer who was signing off on just about anything. When asked, the officer shrugged and said, "It's not my money." He got a bonus for each loan signed, you see. None of these haughty MBAs and financial geniuses saw the flaw with that setup.
That's the aggravating thing about the whole mess. Everyone loves to kick the high level pukes around, but there's thousands of people out there, down at the grunt level, who helped caused this, and they will never have to suffer a single consequence. It's why I love the ideologues who try to place all the blame on one Party or Administration or the other, when in truth it's the end result of a vast, bipartisan, multi-decade clusterfuck executed from the mail room up to the top floor corner office.
I'm tired of the "king of pop" thing, too. Am I the only one who remembers that the title did not evolve naturally, but that Jackson *demanded* he be called that? The media, of course, opened wide and took every inch of that one.
A sane media with a spine would have blinked and said, "Hey, buddy, you do decide how to do the singing and we'll decide how to do the reporting. Capisca? Now go back to that creepy amusement park you live in."
A highly popular public figure who was known throughout the world is reported to have suddenly died with no warning? You wouldn't want to know if it were true?... Imagine if you suddenly heard the Pope was dead. Or Kim Jong Il. Or Bill Gates.
Depends on the figure.
The President? Very likely.
Kim Jong Il? No, but mainly because you can't believe anything out of that place- probably not a good example. I wouldn't expect there to be anything verified for a while.
Bill Gates? Meh... maybe just to see how much the media mistakenly claims he or Microsoft invented. You know that's going to happen.
Some singer? I'd just wait for the news media to sort it out and get on with my day, which is exactly what I did with Jackson.
The Pope? Wouldn't give a shit. They just go out and get another fossil to wear the silly hat anyway.
William Shatner? I'd personally slag one of Google's servers with my frantic searches! No, just kidding.:-)
I literally *hid* from the news from first report through this weekend. I knew the bullshit would be enough catastrophically raise the ocean levels once it all got flushed. All I saw was a quick shot of two girls who were weeping over Jackson's death as if they just witnessed their entire families, every friend and their pets get killed in a giant fireball. Seriously, being *that* emotionally invested in a media figure has *got* to be some sort of mental illness.
So, I'm a bit out of sync. Did North Korea nuke Maui yet?;-)
Oh, and I was on amazon looking for a book and I saw everyone was rushing to buy his albums. WTF? A musician dying makes you suddenly want to buy his album? WTF is that ghoulishness? Seriously! What mass hysteria or delusion is happening there? There's a PhD thesis waiting for someone there.
Stuff like this makes me think of really religious people.
"Someone, somewhere is having fun? We can't have that!"
I'm surprised they don't have mass burnings of official strategy guides. These are the folks who write reviews like "The game made me want to smash the controller into a puppy's skull! My blood pressure peaked to the point where my eyes were bleeding. Score: 10++!"
"It was never meant to be a game! -- Line from Rollerball
It's a sadly common objection these days, be it science or politics or whatever. People don't understand the concept of pilot programs or test runs or prototypes or anything of that nature. If you can't pull a complete, perfect, working solution out of your ass or some other magical body cavity, people don't want to hear from you. Since noone can do that, people don't listen to anyone other than the ideologues who feed their personal needs.
Maybe Harry Potter can wave his wand and solve our energy problems.
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My catchphrase is "Don't trust catchphrases" :-)
Take it up with the folks at Top Gear, then. Anyway, I was talking about going more than 200 and you countered with speeds up to 200.
Well maintained, is it? What's a pothole like at 200 MPH? ;-)
Ah. The old "youth is everything, experience is irrelevant" approach. The movers of this new culture can facebrag about it as they pass their hand me ups to their decrepit, tweetless, senile elders (anyone over 25).
They also demonstrated the silliest thing about it, or any 200+ MPH car... It takes quite a while to get to those speeds. You may get 0-60 in 3 seconds, but the acceleration drops off rather rapidly. About the only place you can get a car like that up to speed *is* a test track with an enormous straight.
I think it must have been 8 miles or more because they commented that the far end was out of sight due to the Earth's curvature!
A guy tried driving a super-Ferrari (an Enzo, I think) like that here in Southern California a few years back. yeah, You guessed it. Mr. Supercar? Meet Mr. Telephone Pole. Sadly, the dumbass driving it survived.
Another show mentioned how fragile they are. When they are featured on a show or test track, supercar makers box them up like ancient relics and ship them there. Contrast to the episode with the McClaren SLK that was simply driven to the filming site from two countries away.
Isn't the ZPE what supports the universe and provides a place for all those little superstrings to play? You might collapse the false vacuum or something. ;-)
Unless she's sociopathic and doesn't care. I haven't followed the case all that closely. Has the scumhag shown any believable remorse?
If there's one game that is completely geared for the average Hollywood scriptwriter, it's Asteroids.
(Background noise: bommmmp bommmmp bommmp)
SHIP: Pew pew pew!
ASTEROID: BOOM! CRASH!
SHIP: Pew pew pew pew pew!
ASTEROID: BANG! BAM! BOOM!
SHIP: Pew pew pew!
ASTEROID: BOOMF! BOOM! KERBLOOIE!
(Background noise increases pace: bomp bomp bomp bomp)
UFO: Wooo Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo!
SHIP: Woosh! Pew pew pew! Woosh!
UFO: Wooo Ooo Ooo! Pewwww! Pewwww! Woo Ooo!
SHIP: Pew! Woosh! Pew pew! Woosh! Pew!
(Background noise even faster: bop bop bop bop bop bop)
UFO: Wooo Ooo Ooo! BOOM!
SHIP: Woosh! Pew pew! BOOM!
(William Shatner delivers soliloquy on the pointlessness of war and violence)
(End credits: GAME OVER!)
Bethesda has a project in the works too.
I heard there were two. Ravin' Cliff Racers and House Hlaalu Party. There's a minigame in one of them where you waggle the Wiimote to string random letters together to create names for newly discovered Daedric ruins.
You is geniuss!
Madworld was interesting, but I returned the rental after beating the first boss. The controls weren't so hot. All the game did was make me miss the right stick for controlling the camera. I kept approaching enemies in round about ways to get the camera oriented the way I wanted (at a spike wall, for example) when I grabbed them. The monochromatic graphics were cool initially, but they made the eyes weary after a while.
I think there is way too much blaming of the banks/investment groups/etc in this whole financial crisis, and not enough light being cast on individuals.
A local radio show had bank employees (and former employees) calling in with their tales. One guy had a loan approval officer who was signing off on just about anything. When asked, the officer shrugged and said, "It's not my money." He got a bonus for each loan signed, you see. None of these haughty MBAs and financial geniuses saw the flaw with that setup.
That's the aggravating thing about the whole mess. Everyone loves to kick the high level pukes around, but there's thousands of people out there, down at the grunt level, who helped caused this, and they will never have to suffer a single consequence. It's why I love the ideologues who try to place all the blame on one Party or Administration or the other, when in truth it's the end result of a vast, bipartisan, multi-decade clusterfuck executed from the mail room up to the top floor corner office.
We're looking for creative ways to get it out to the public
By rocket mail!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
... like 20 to 30 second sound bites. They might as well look for ideas at an open mike poetry night.
My wife was in tears.
That grounds for divorce in my book. ;-)
I'm tired of the "king of pop" thing, too. Am I the only one who remembers that the title did not evolve naturally, but that Jackson *demanded* he be called that? The media, of course, opened wide and took every inch of that one.
A sane media with a spine would have blinked and said, "Hey, buddy, you do decide how to do the singing and we'll decide how to do the reporting. Capisca? Now go back to that creepy amusement park you live in."
A highly popular public figure who was known throughout the world is reported to have suddenly died with no warning? You wouldn't want to know if it were true? ... Imagine if you suddenly heard the Pope was dead. Or Kim Jong Il. Or Bill Gates.
Depends on the figure.
The President? Very likely.
Kim Jong Il? No, but mainly because you can't believe anything out of that place- probably not a good example. I wouldn't expect there to be anything verified for a while.
Bill Gates? Meh... maybe just to see how much the media mistakenly claims he or Microsoft invented. You know that's going to happen.
Some singer? I'd just wait for the news media to sort it out and get on with my day, which is exactly what I did with Jackson.
The Pope? Wouldn't give a shit. They just go out and get another fossil to wear the silly hat anyway.
William Shatner? I'd personally slag one of Google's servers with my frantic searches! No, just kidding. :-)
Is there a raffle for the first posthumous Jackson sighting? Or has it already happened?
I literally *hid* from the news from first report through this weekend. I knew the bullshit would be enough catastrophically raise the ocean levels once it all got flushed. All I saw was a quick shot of two girls who were weeping over Jackson's death as if they just witnessed their entire families, every friend and their pets get killed in a giant fireball. Seriously, being *that* emotionally invested in a media figure has *got* to be some sort of mental illness.
So, I'm a bit out of sync. Did North Korea nuke Maui yet? ;-)
Oh, and I was on amazon looking for a book and I saw everyone was rushing to buy his albums. WTF? A musician dying makes you suddenly want to buy his album? WTF is that ghoulishness? Seriously! What mass hysteria or delusion is happening there? There's a PhD thesis waiting for someone there.
Stuff like this makes me think of really religious people.
"Someone, somewhere is having fun? We can't have that!"
I'm surprised they don't have mass burnings of official strategy guides. These are the folks who write reviews like "The game made me want to smash the controller into a puppy's skull! My blood pressure peaked to the point where my eyes were bleeding. Score: 10++!"
"It was never meant to be a game! -- Line from Rollerball
Security camera resolution.
The magical uber-photo-enhance software Chloe O'Brian used at CTU does not exist. ;-)
Or we just get used to having a way to blank the projector. The world adapts.
I've been annoyed by the row of dots for a long time and thought I was the only one.
But they don't have elves in Iran. Achmandinnerjacket said so at the university talk. It was elves, right? Something like that.
It's a sadly common objection these days, be it science or politics or whatever. People don't understand the concept of pilot programs or test runs or prototypes or anything of that nature. If you can't pull a complete, perfect, working solution out of your ass or some other magical body cavity, people don't want to hear from you. Since noone can do that, people don't listen to anyone other than the ideologues who feed their personal needs.
Maybe Harry Potter can wave his wand and solve our energy problems.