The other issue is that many of the people who play D&D don't pay for movies, and of the ones that do, there aren't enough of them for a movie to make money.
Most recent examples are the Firefly movie and Veronica Mars - This great groundswell of geeks that would rise up and fund these films into the stratosphere never really materialized.
You need to find a car with a cop motor, a 440 cubic-inch plant, you need cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. Find a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it your new car or what?
So true - In 1987 I bought my first car: A fifteen-year-old 1972 Datsun 510. A fun car, but I had to wrench on the thing every weekend to keep it going.
...and the rust. My god, the rust. Compare that to today, where there are a lot of 15-year-old 2000-era cars on the road that look perfectly fine and run well.
This is how the labour market is supposed to work.
I would never work for Amazon - I accept lower pay in exchange for work/life balance. But for those people for whom money is more important, Amazon provides them with that opportunity. To each their own.
...and to those who didn't know what they were getting into when they started working at Amazon, that's their own fault. Amazon's working conditions are pretty well-known.
Wrong cars are seen as a "safe" mode of transport as a consequence of how the statistics are generated/reported.
Almost all car crashes occur at intersections. Once at cruising speed the number of crashes are very low per mile/km travelled. In effect a trip from Seattle to Los Angeles is almost as dangerous as a trip from Seattle to Tacoma. The statistics however are presented as the number of fatalities per km/mile travelled.
Incorrect. The majority of air crashes are survivable.
If you look at all the commercial airline accidents between 1983 and 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 95.7% of the people involved survived. Even when they narrowed down to look at only the worst accidents, the overall survival rate was 76.6%.
The problem with calculations like this is Joe Average rarely thinks about Total Cost of Ownership when it comes to his car. Generally, he thinks about gas and parking, and that's it - So they'd cringe at a car sharing mode at 50 cents per minute (for example) because "Gas and Parking costs way less than that."
The entire point of everyone having a gun is so the GOVERNMENT is not safe - from the people.
Oh give it a fucking rest you American Gun Nut Anonymous Coward. The government has drones, warthogs and TANKS. You really think the Colt 45 you keep under your pillow and caress every night before falling asleep is going to make a difference?
Now go away and watch your VHS copy of Red Dawn again and leave the rest of us in peace.
Have you seen the Iraqi military in action lately?
Saudi Arabia has 200,000 active-duty military personnel, in a country led by old men who consider the middle ages to be a little too progressive for their liking.
Google Maps puts inappropriate weight towards making a route more complicated with short freeway hops
I wouldn't exclusively blame Google for this though.
I travel regularly to the USA on business, and I've used rental GPSes (Garmin / TomTom) as well as Apple and Google services on my phones. They all seem to do this equally - I'm always puzzled why I'm merging on and off in a 1/4 mile....
It's interesting how Joe Q. Public continues to think that their data and voice zips around the globe via satellites, when in reality the vast majority moves on our terrestrial networks.
Just last week I overheard someone commenting on how their text messages were going via satellite.
For me, one of the most interesting (yet seemingly ignored) cultural component is the droids.
In the Star Wars universe, Droids like Artoo and Threepio and, presumably, millions of others, are self-aware and intelligent. They appear to feel physical pain and have emotions like happiness, fear and sadness.
Yet as near as I can see in the canon, droids have no rights whatsoever. They can be bought and sold, ordered to their death, kidnapped by Jawas, melted, sent to the spice mine of Kessel or smashed into who knows what.
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The other issue is that many of the people who play D&D don't pay for movies, and of the ones that do, there aren't enough of them for a movie to make money.
Most recent examples are the Firefly movie and Veronica Mars - This great groundswell of geeks that would rise up and fund these films into the stratosphere never really materialized.
based on a boardgame
You're doing it wrong.
I'd imagine quite a few current and former Amazonians feel compelled to say something.
[pulls up a chair]
Proceed.
You need to find a car with a cop motor, a 440 cubic-inch plant, you need cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. Find a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it your new car or what?
So true - In 1987 I bought my first car: A fifteen-year-old 1972 Datsun 510. A fun car, but I had to wrench on the thing every weekend to keep it going.
...and the rust. My god, the rust. Compare that to today, where there are a lot of 15-year-old 2000-era cars on the road that look perfectly fine and run well.
This is how the labour market is supposed to work.
I would never work for Amazon - I accept lower pay in exchange for work/life balance. But for those people for whom money is more important, Amazon provides them with that opportunity. To each their own.
...and to those who didn't know what they were getting into when they started working at Amazon, that's their own fault. Amazon's working conditions are pretty well-known.
They have an image to maintain.
Kaspersky is run by ex-KGB men. What would possibly go wrong?
(Yeah, yeah. I know here on Slashdot the NSA and CIA are one-thousand times worse than the KGB and GRU ever were, but spare me.)
The summary is a mess
Then read the effing linked Reuters article. It's pretty clear.
It was possible to beat coin-op arcade games on a single quarter
Not on the first play. After hundreds of quarters, yeah, maybe.
In Soviet Workers' Paradise, timezone change you!
I'm impressed this is still going on
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.
They don't want to sit in someone else's filth.
You really need to start wearing trousers.
I'm not sure that I understand who exactly "they" are in your statement.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/d...
Flight numbers are reused
Not infamous, doomed flight numbers, or not at least until many years have passed.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesia...
Wrong cars are seen as a "safe" mode of transport as a consequence of how the statistics are generated/reported.
Almost all car crashes occur at intersections. Once at cruising speed the number of crashes are very low per mile/km travelled. In effect a trip from Seattle to Los Angeles is almost as dangerous as a trip from Seattle to Tacoma. The statistics however are presented as the number of fatalities per km/mile travelled.
Air plane crash, you are almost certainly dead.
Incorrect. The majority of air crashes are survivable.
If you look at all the commercial airline accidents between 1983 and 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 95.7% of the people involved survived. Even when they narrowed down to look at only the worst accidents, the overall survival rate was 76.6%.
Why are American cities such rotten, dangerous hellholes?
Because FREEDOM, you socialist scumbag.
The problem with calculations like this is Joe Average rarely thinks about Total Cost of Ownership when it comes to his car. Generally, he thinks about gas and parking, and that's it - So they'd cringe at a car sharing mode at 50 cents per minute (for example) because "Gas and Parking costs way less than that."
Iran: Never invaded anyone
Because the only place they might consider invading would nuke them into slag.
...never posed a serious threat to anyone
never used weapons of mass destruction...
Because we've prevented them from getting WMDs or anything else that would allow them to pose a serious threat.
The entire point of everyone having a gun is so the GOVERNMENT is not safe - from the people.
Oh give it a fucking rest you American Gun Nut Anonymous Coward. The government has drones, warthogs and TANKS. You really think the Colt 45 you keep under your pillow and caress every night before falling asleep is going to make a difference?
Now go away and watch your VHS copy of Red Dawn again and leave the rest of us in peace.
Have you seen the Iraqi military in action lately?
Saudi Arabia has 200,000 active-duty military personnel, in a country led by old men who consider the middle ages to be a little too progressive for their liking.
Google Maps puts inappropriate weight towards making a route more complicated with short freeway hops
I wouldn't exclusively blame Google for this though.
I travel regularly to the USA on business, and I've used rental GPSes (Garmin / TomTom) as well as Apple and Google services on my phones. They all seem to do this equally - I'm always puzzled why I'm merging on and off in a 1/4 mile....
It's interesting how Joe Q. Public continues to think that their data and voice zips around the globe via satellites, when in reality the vast majority moves on our terrestrial networks.
Just last week I overheard someone commenting on how their text messages were going via satellite.
It is easy to look like victim and bully peoples [sic]
You just quote the parent in your reply and presto problem solved.
For me, one of the most interesting (yet seemingly ignored) cultural component is the droids.
...and don't me started on restraining bolts.
In the Star Wars universe, Droids like Artoo and Threepio and, presumably, millions of others, are self-aware and intelligent. They appear to feel physical pain and have emotions like happiness, fear and sadness.
Yet as near as I can see in the canon, droids have no rights whatsoever. They can be bought and sold, ordered to their death, kidnapped by Jawas, melted, sent to the spice mine of Kessel or smashed into who knows what.