My question is how the hell can they determine all this information about other planets when we can't even figure out exactly what makes our own planet tick?
FTA: "While Ryskinâ(TM)s research looks only at long-term changes in the Earthâ(TM)s magnetic field, he points out that, âoeIf secular variation is caused by the ocean flow, the entire concept of the dynamo operating in the Earthâ(TM)s core is called into question: there exists no other evidence of hydrodynamic flow in the core.â"
He does go so far to say that there is no examinable proof of a liquid core and that we could have been wrong all these years.
It doesn't seem too far fetched for me, but I'll leave the proof to the geomagnetism community.
Uhm.... this is Sims 8 on PS4 dude. Sounds to me like your consciousness lost some parts of your memory in the transfer and your subconscious is making up for it in the form of an unintentionally ironic Slashdot post on SimWeb.
To get an Admin blink your right eye 3 times while rubbing your nose and they should be able to help you out with that...
Let me tell you about houses full of crap. Multiple sets of all the armors, weapons, and huge amounts of reagents all laid out on the floor in neat grids.
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Oh god I've been there man. I had all the armor sets laid out neatly by the metal, hundreds of potions nicely lined up on the shelves. I even had a special alchemy corner with all the Master potion making shit and barrels full of all the ingredients that I had been collecting since i started.
Now I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking (just like I do with WoW and EQ) but it was funny how satisfied I was just hoarding shit in that game. I kept my in-game house cleaner and more organized than anywhere I've lived since then. Maybe if I start accumulating tons of weapons and armor I'll be motivated to clean up my place so I can display it all. =P
Im not worried about nature, your right nature will be fine long after we're gone; im worried about what we may do to ourselves trying to fuck with nature in order to "improve it to our needs".
This article proposes that we could influence the climate of a large part of the African continent using a wall, albeit a very imaginative wall.
This seems to have 2 very obvious problems...
first of all, this is what they are talking about harnessing with that wall. I hope those bacteria aren't afraid of heights.
Second, I am no environmentalist (proud to say), but seems to me that making such a large impact on the worlds climate (and the Sahara sandstorm is a force that has effects on the entire globe) is something that could have many unforseen effects.
I am no hippie but whenever it comes to a discussion about making a major "upgrade" to our environment I remain suspicious. Nature itself may not be wise.... but its balanced. We have a way of upsetting that balance in the interest of making things "better" for us.
Sometimes the risk and effort is worth it, but this doesn't seem like one of those cases in its current stage.
I see a lot of postulation on whether or not they can without much convincing information on why they should. Seems to me that constructing a 21st century version of the Great Wall of China through the Sahara desert isn't something that's worth the effort.
"HP is no more guilty than EMC when it comes to wooing talent from competitors. EMC has hired several HP executives, including Mark Lewis, former vice president of worldwide marketing for HP's network storage solutions group, who is now EMC's president of Content Management and Archiving, and Howard Elias, HP's former senior vice president of business management and operations, who is now president of EMC's Global Services and Resource Management Software group."
Hahaha silly EMC. At first read I could see EMC's argument but if they aren't playing by the same rules they are trying to get enforced then I don't believe this glaring hypocrisy will go overlooked.
The problem is that people are arguing 2 completley seperate things. What is right, and what is legal. (It's funny how often these things end up on opposite ends of the Ven diagram)
Is file sharing illegal? Not always. But lets not play stupid, myself and most likely every person defending it here have used it illegally, and these companies know this.
However the twist is that from an ethical standpoint the pirates are right. The RIAA (and similar organizations) are indeed greedy middlemen who serve no real purpose in today's economy. With today's technology artists have the means to create and distribute music without them, and as Dunbal stated, many bands are starting to pick up on this. It won't be long before these organizations cease to exist, or are forced to adapt.
So this comments section is unfolding as every other article on this topic has. With people who assert that file sharing is being used to violate copyright laws and is indeed therefore illegal; and the people who believe the current legality of file sharing to be irrelevant and argue from a more philosophical standpoint as to how things "should be".
The bottom line is that regardless of your opinions on the issue it is, in most places, illegal. However, just because the law is on the side of these organizations, does not mean that they are right in either their methods, or their goals.
Ive read the books. There are several female Spartans. Kelly was one in particular I remember. She was a sniper on an assault team with Master Cheif. They were not cloned or manufactured. They were chosen. They searched for kids with DNA or genes or some shit that were nearly perfect (dont remember the details). They then kidnapped them and superenhanced them. Injected them with shit to supercharge their muscles, enchance their reflex's 100 fold and make their bones unbreakable etc etc. With those kind of enhancements I guess that sex made little difference so there were both males and female Spartans.
After all those enhancements AND the armor with rechargeable shields its hard to imagine a schoolgirl (regardless of her skill in martial arts) kicking her ass.
Dont get me wrong this kid was a damn idiot and I agree with all the above comments. But you have to admit that WoW is a very addictive game and I'm sure Blizzard have, and will continue, to make the game as addicting as possible.
But this doesn't sound like a case of addiction. this sounds like a moron kid reenacting something he saw in a video game. He may very well have been reenacting something he saw in 1 of a million movies, tv shows, or books. This kid was 13 years old. I dont know about China but here in the US 13 year olds know that when you jump from a high place you get hurt or die; i think video games and movies have taught me that lesson better than anything.
I doubt it. According to her article most people didn't know what she looked like. They either heard her voice or saw her say she was a girl; hence everyone asking her for pics.
If what she says is true then any ugly 280 pound chick would get the same reaction as her.
Noone has seen my mom either and most dont know her age, for all they know she is 25 years old and looks like a supermodel, yet she doesn't get a reaction anywhere near the extent that is described in this article.
Although now that people have seen pics of her she has screwed herself into getting that kind of reaction a lot more.
My mom is 40 years old and she has a level 37 Warlock on WoW. I messaged her on MSN after reading this asking about her experience. She is not shy about the fact that she is a woman and she has used vent now and then and she hardly ever gets a reaction like this article describes.
I dont know what server she is on or what internet she is using but I have been in many raids with women and have never heard anything quite to that extent that she is complaining about in this article.
Last summer we hit over 110 degrees in my town on numerous occasions. We hit over 100 degrees nearly every day.
We are too low of an elevation to get snow but we get well below 32 degrees in the winter. Im not saying you guys dont get colder winters over there but we have you beat when it comes to extreme high temps and we get a good range of extremes.
My point was that its not a consistent 70-80 degrees here with sunny skies year long. This is as good a place to test a car as anywhere.
However this is just one test of many to come. Odds are they will have this thing running in nearly every enviroment before you see it at your local car dealership so this argument is pointless.
California isn't just a small strip of sunny beach on the west coast. I live in the valley and it is raining outside right now. It gets well below freezing in the winter and I often have to scrape the ice off of my windshield before work. It can get even worse if you head up into the Sierra Nevadas.
This guy should play F.E.A.R. She may be a total ripoff of the Ring but that little girl scares the shit out of me. I get creeped out every time I turn a corner or look through a window because Im afraid she will be there.
One of the best scares I ever got from a game was the F.E.A.R. demo. I was walking down the catwalk admiring the graphics. I turned around to climb down the ladder and BOOM that creepy little girl is standing right behind me (with a jump in the music). I must have jumped 3 feet out of my chair.
Anyway if this guy looks around a bit he can find some much scarier games because, personally, that part (or any part) of FF7 wasn't scary in the least.
Olympus Mons was a volcano formed by a hot spot. Thats the only way it could have gotten so big. If the plates had been in motion while it was forming it would be a chain of volcanos like Hawaii instead of one uber volcano.
Volcano's are not proof to plate tectonics because the presence of water is one of the key factors of creating magma under a subduction trench. The water reduces the melting temperature of the rock and causes it to melt in when it usually wouldn't. Most likely the Volcano's on mars are formed by hot spots..... that or there used to be oceans at one time.
Wow i've seen this same article written by 15 different people. Its ironic to see a writer complaining about originallity as he writes the same complaints that have been posted dozens of times on a number of different sites.
And for the record I LOVE having hot busty women and big testorone filled guys in my games. I dont want to play DOA with some 45 year old fat chick that looks like the lunchlady from my old high school. And i dont want the hero of Far Cry to be some gangly redneck with a beer belly.
We are playing games to escape into a fantasy world and I want to see fantasy characters. I love the hot chicks in revealing clothes and the tough guys with big muscles and so do most people i know personally. In fact I have never met anyone who complained that the chicks were "too revealing in DOA" or that the main character in Halo was "too tough"
If you want real life go walk around outside. If you want hero's and fantasy worlds and hot women with unrealistic proportions play games.
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Seems Europe is starting to get better at that whole "democracy" concept than we are.
I wonder how many Japanese citizens in that area realize that the big ass doll in the first pic is inspired by that drawing.
My question is how the hell can they determine all this information about other planets when we can't even figure out exactly what makes our own planet tick?
Its not totally wrong.
FTA: "While Ryskinâ(TM)s research looks only at long-term changes in the Earthâ(TM)s magnetic field, he points out that, âoeIf secular variation is caused by the ocean flow, the entire concept of the dynamo operating in the Earthâ(TM)s core is called into question: there exists no other evidence of hydrodynamic flow in the core.â"
He does go so far to say that there is no examinable proof of a liquid core and that we could have been wrong all these years.
It doesn't seem too far fetched for me, but I'll leave the proof to the geomagnetism community.
What was it before?
Uhm.... this is Sims 8 on PS4 dude. Sounds to me like your consciousness lost some parts of your memory in the transfer and your subconscious is making up for it in the form of an unintentionally ironic Slashdot post on SimWeb.
To get an Admin blink your right eye 3 times while rubbing your nose and they should be able to help you out with that...
Or might have blown a few million years ago....
Did the speed of light slow down again? Really you'd think they'd put out a chain-letter or something.
Not my idea of a good time. I'm hard pressed to find games that keep me interested in the places I AM supposed to go.
Let me tell you about houses full of crap. Multiple sets of all the armors, weapons, and huge amounts of reagents all laid out on the floor in neat grids.
.
Oh god I've been there man. I had all the armor sets laid out neatly by the metal, hundreds of potions nicely lined up on the shelves. I even had a special alchemy corner with all the Master potion making shit and barrels full of all the ingredients that I had been collecting since i started.
Now I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking (just like I do with WoW and EQ) but it was funny how satisfied I was just hoarding shit in that game. I kept my in-game house cleaner and more organized than anywhere I've lived since then. Maybe if I start accumulating tons of weapons and armor I'll be motivated to clean up my place so I can display it all. =P
Are we just copying and pasting now? WTF?
You must be new here.
Im not worried about nature, your right nature will be fine long after we're gone; im worried about what we may do to ourselves trying to fuck with nature in order to "improve it to our needs".
This seems to have 2 very obvious problems...
first of all, this is what they are talking about harnessing with that wall. I hope those bacteria aren't afraid of heights.
Second, I am no environmentalist (proud to say), but seems to me that making such a large impact on the worlds climate (and the Sahara sandstorm is a force that has effects on the entire globe) is something that could have many unforseen effects.
I am no hippie but whenever it comes to a discussion about making a major "upgrade" to our environment I remain suspicious. Nature itself may not be wise.... but its balanced. We have a way of upsetting that balance in the interest of making things "better" for us.
Sometimes the risk and effort is worth it, but this doesn't seem like one of those cases in its current stage.
Perhaps because most of the times when man believes himself wiser than nature we end up learning different.
I see a lot of postulation on whether or not they can without much convincing information on why they should. Seems to me that constructing a 21st century version of the Great Wall of China through the Sahara desert isn't something that's worth the effort.
"HP is no more guilty than EMC when it comes to wooing talent from competitors. EMC has hired several HP executives, including Mark Lewis, former vice president of worldwide marketing for HP's network storage solutions group, who is now EMC's president of Content Management and Archiving, and Howard Elias, HP's former senior vice president of business management and operations, who is now president of EMC's Global Services and Resource Management Software group."
Hahaha silly EMC. At first read I could see EMC's argument but if they aren't playing by the same rules they are trying to get enforced then I don't believe this glaring hypocrisy will go overlooked.
The problem is that people are arguing 2 completley seperate things. What is right, and what is legal. (It's funny how often these things end up on opposite ends of the Ven diagram)
Is file sharing illegal? Not always. But lets not play stupid, myself and most likely every person defending it here have used it illegally, and these companies know this.
However the twist is that from an ethical standpoint the pirates are right. The RIAA (and similar organizations) are indeed greedy middlemen who serve no real purpose in today's economy. With today's technology artists have the means to create and distribute music without them, and as Dunbal stated, many bands are starting to pick up on this. It won't be long before these organizations cease to exist, or are forced to adapt.
So this comments section is unfolding as every other article on this topic has. With people who assert that file sharing is being used to violate copyright laws and is indeed therefore illegal; and the people who believe the current legality of file sharing to be irrelevant and argue from a more philosophical standpoint as to how things "should be".
The bottom line is that regardless of your opinions on the issue it is, in most places, illegal. However, just because the law is on the side of these organizations, does not mean that they are right in either their methods, or their goals.
Ive read the books. There are several female Spartans. Kelly was one in particular I remember. She was a sniper on an assault team with Master Cheif. They were not cloned or manufactured. They were chosen. They searched for kids with DNA or genes or some shit that were nearly perfect (dont remember the details). They then kidnapped them and superenhanced them. Injected them with shit to supercharge their muscles, enchance their reflex's 100 fold and make their bones unbreakable etc etc. With those kind of enhancements I guess that sex made little difference so there were both males and female Spartans.
After all those enhancements AND the armor with rechargeable shields its hard to imagine a schoolgirl (regardless of her skill in martial arts) kicking her ass.
and WoW doesn't?
Dont get me wrong this kid was a damn idiot and I agree with all the above comments. But you have to admit that WoW is a very addictive game and I'm sure Blizzard have, and will continue, to make the game as addicting as possible.
But this doesn't sound like a case of addiction. this sounds like a moron kid reenacting something he saw in a video game. He may very well have been reenacting something he saw in 1 of a million movies, tv shows, or books. This kid was 13 years old. I dont know about China but here in the US 13 year olds know that when you jump from a high place you get hurt or die; i think video games and movies have taught me that lesson better than anything.
I doubt it. According to her article most people didn't know what she looked like. They either heard her voice or saw her say she was a girl; hence everyone asking her for pics.
If what she says is true then any ugly 280 pound chick would get the same reaction as her.
Noone has seen my mom either and most dont know her age, for all they know she is 25 years old and looks like a supermodel, yet she doesn't get a reaction anywhere near the extent that is described in this article.
Although now that people have seen pics of her she has screwed herself into getting that kind of reaction a lot more.
My mom is 40 years old and she has a level 37 Warlock on WoW. I messaged her on MSN after reading this asking about her experience. She is not shy about the fact that she is a woman and she has used vent now and then and she hardly ever gets a reaction like this article describes.
I dont know what server she is on or what internet she is using but I have been in many raids with women and have never heard anything quite to that extent that she is complaining about in this article.
Last summer we hit over 110 degrees in my town on numerous occasions. We hit over 100 degrees nearly every day.
We are too low of an elevation to get snow but we get well below 32 degrees in the winter. Im not saying you guys dont get colder winters over there but we have you beat when it comes to extreme high temps and we get a good range of extremes.
My point was that its not a consistent 70-80 degrees here with sunny skies year long. This is as good a place to test a car as anywhere.
However this is just one test of many to come. Odds are they will have this thing running in nearly every enviroment before you see it at your local car dealership so this argument is pointless.
California isn't just a small strip of sunny beach on the west coast. I live in the valley and it is raining outside right now. It gets well below freezing in the winter and I often have to scrape the ice off of my windshield before work. It can get even worse if you head up into the Sierra Nevadas.
This guy should play F.E.A.R. She may be a total ripoff of the Ring but that little girl scares the shit out of me. I get creeped out every time I turn a corner or look through a window because Im afraid she will be there.
One of the best scares I ever got from a game was the F.E.A.R. demo. I was walking down the catwalk admiring the graphics. I turned around to climb down the ladder and BOOM that creepy little girl is standing right behind me (with a jump in the music). I must have jumped 3 feet out of my chair.
Anyway if this guy looks around a bit he can find some much scarier games because, personally, that part (or any part) of FF7 wasn't scary in the least.
Olympus Mons was a volcano formed by a hot spot. Thats the only way it could have gotten so big. If the plates had been in motion while it was forming it would be a chain of volcanos like Hawaii instead of one uber volcano.
Volcano's are not proof to plate tectonics because the presence of water is one of the key factors of creating magma under a subduction trench. The water reduces the melting temperature of the rock and causes it to melt in when it usually wouldn't. Most likely the Volcano's on mars are formed by hot spots..... that or there used to be oceans at one time.
Wow i've seen this same article written by 15 different people. Its ironic to see a writer complaining about originallity as he writes the same complaints that have been posted dozens of times on a number of different sites.
And for the record I LOVE having hot busty women and big testorone filled guys in my games. I dont want to play DOA with some 45 year old fat chick that looks like the lunchlady from my old high school. And i dont want the hero of Far Cry to be some gangly redneck with a beer belly.
We are playing games to escape into a fantasy world and I want to see fantasy characters. I love the hot chicks in revealing clothes and the tough guys with big muscles and so do most people i know personally. In fact I have never met anyone who complained that the chicks were "too revealing in DOA" or that the main character in Halo was "too tough"
If you want real life go walk around outside. If you want hero's and fantasy worlds and hot women with unrealistic proportions play games.