Half of the native residents of West Virginia are filing a lawsuit against the Einstein estate for his use of the phrase "It's all relative" when he was traveling through the state and asked what he thought of the state compared to New Jersey.
The point is that there is no real comparison between living as a Christian and as a Jedi. Living as a Christian entails reachable goals (depending on who you ask). No one is ever going to make a lightsaber, especially anytime soon, to give credence to the lifestyle. No one is going to be able to identify midichlorians (sp?). Etc.
The parent wondered how many people who claim to be christian lived christian lives. I simply suggested that there are more true christians than there are true jedi.
Since people have been arguing the validity of both belief systems, I thought it might be prudent to consider that there are more people who have successfully lived their lives as christians than who can ever live their lives as jedi.
More accurately...your console is out of date as soon as you buy it, just like your PC, but there is currently no demand to be able to update them. And very little point in doing so since they aren't made with easily removable and replaceable components.
I think the thing that most intrigues me about APB is that it is one of the few MMORPGs not set in a scifi or fantasy world. I think thats something that we need to see more of. There are only so many aliens and ogres out there to kill.
Where are the wild west mmorpgs where you can choose to be a gunslinger, a cowboy, a card sharp, a cattle rustler, sherriff, indian, etc. Same basic idea, but more historical/realistic setting. Just like APB looks like it will be.
Some think it the perfect place for a Mars moonbase
That would make it a Phobosbase? Or a Phobase? Just name it what it is. If we follow that pattern we'll end up with things like the Beta Promixa Centauri Two Seventh Moonbase.
Dropping and replacing SSNs with something that can't be reproduced/used by someone who it doesn't match (such as a biometric) is a nice idea. Hell, so is a database of SSNs and other personal information.
But anytime that idea is brought up all the tinfoil hats and other nuts start raving about how it is an invasion of privacy and big brother and...eep! *is muscled out of his chair by a group of men in grey suits and taken away*
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3. Monty Python reminded me of the Spam skit
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5. Ads lead to...PROFIT!
in which money doesn't briefly reside in Google's control during the transaction but rather gets directly transfered to the merchant.
That would work for most businesses that accept credit cards, but most businesses that have online stores already do that on their own website, so having google do it would be redundant.
Where pay-pal gets it's money is from person-to-person, not person-to-merchant. And that is because you can't pay an individual with a credit card. And that is because of the way credit card companies do business. For a merchant to accept a CC, they have to pay a fee to the CC company. Individuals don't and don't want to do that.
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The thing about EB and Gamestop is that they mostly don't focus on PC games. At the gamestop here, they have a single shelf hidden in the back corner for non-console games. And as someone who doesn't have a console, that's a pain in the arse. I'm more likely to buy new games from BestBuy than one of those stores.
What I'd really like to see is a PC gaming specialty store. Not just with new games, but with classic games, and with hardware upgrades for your computer - video cards, memory, processors, etc. I grant that it probably wouldn't be profitable, but it sure as hell would be nice.
In laymans terms: It's been a big topic in physics as to exactly how small a scale you have to go to before the quantum forces take over from gravity. All this experiment showed is that it's smaller than where these folks were looking.
So no big breakthrough, but it is nice that they narrowed down the field of search a bit.
Odd then, that there is an ever increasing number of migrant farm workers in the US.
Besides, the man with the hammer likely doesn't have the same degree of education of the man overseeing the robots. You go compare the relative levels of education of one of Henry Ford's assembly line men and one of the overseers of machinery on any of Ford's assembly lines. The same man could not do the same job. And that transfer of employment from man-run assembly lines to machine-based lines was part of the collapse of Motor City USA (i.e. Detroit, Michigan) in the 70s and 80s into one of the highest places of unemployment in the US.
I'm looking forward to the day when most menial, dangerous and physically wearing work can be automated.
Why's that? You trying to put a very large portion of humanity out of work? Without those jobs available for people to make a living, what are they going to do to support themselves and their families? You have to remember that science fiction is exactly that: fiction. Reality is not the idyllic place that it's made out to be in many stories. And it's not the dystopia that it's made out to be in many others. It's somewhere in between. So not only will robots not take over all the high-danger/low-skill jobs because of economic constraints, they won't revolt and try to kill us all. Though if you kick that damn robot dog one too many times it will start spraying oil on your shoes and bed.
Humanoid robots would probably be the most inefficient form of robots to send to the moon to build things. You would want a series of specially designed robots that are programmed for individual tasks: i.e. locating and mining ores from the moon, refining them into usable metals, shaping the metal into usable pieces, and assembling pre-designed structures. Not a single one of those would look at all humaniform, much more likely to resemble car-manufacturing robots.
Hell, even easier would be to send pre-fab structures that robots could assemble and robots designed to gather lunar soil and process it to collect oxygen/breathable air to fill those structures.
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It just ruined the humor of the rest of the post. I had to comment.
Lief Ericson was European too. Or did Iceland move to Africa?
Half of the native residents of West Virginia are filing a lawsuit against the Einstein estate for his use of the phrase "It's all relative" when he was traveling through the state and asked what he thought of the state compared to New Jersey.
They used the sun and moon to measure relativistic physics just a few years later. Gravitational lensing around the sun.
You mean Maxwell's Daemon?
The point is that there is no real comparison between living as a Christian and as a Jedi. Living as a Christian entails reachable goals (depending on who you ask). No one is ever going to make a lightsaber, especially anytime soon, to give credence to the lifestyle. No one is going to be able to identify midichlorians (sp?). Etc.
Since people have been arguing the validity of both belief systems, I thought it might be prudent to consider that there are more people who have successfully lived their lives as christians than who can ever live their lives as jedi.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating human flesh as long it is properly prepared.
What you have a problem with is the intentional killing of a person, i.e. murder. A totally separate issue.
As is the vampirism statement made by one of the children posts.
More than claim to be Jedi.
More accurately...your console is out of date as soon as you buy it, just like your PC, but there is currently no demand to be able to update them. And very little point in doing so since they aren't made with easily removable and replaceable components.
Where are the wild west mmorpgs where you can choose to be a gunslinger, a cowboy, a card sharp, a cattle rustler, sherriff, indian, etc. Same basic idea, but more historical/realistic setting. Just like APB looks like it will be.
Stuff based in reality is more interesting IMHO.
Actually, our moon's name is Luna. And our sun's name is Sol. We're really original.
That would make it a Phobosbase? Or a Phobase? Just name it what it is. If we follow that pattern we'll end up with things like the Beta Promixa Centauri Two Seventh Moonbase.
But anytime that idea is brought up all the tinfoil hats and other nuts start raving about how it is an invasion of privacy and big brother and...eep! *is muscled out of his chair by a group of men in grey suits and taken away*
1. The ad immediately below the article featured John Cleese 2. John Cleese reminded me of Monty Python 3. Monty Python reminded me of the Spam skit 4. Spam is related to ads 5. Ads lead to...PROFIT!
That would work for most businesses that accept credit cards, but most businesses that have online stores already do that on their own website, so having google do it would be redundant.
Where pay-pal gets it's money is from person-to-person, not person-to-merchant. And that is because you can't pay an individual with a credit card. And that is because of the way credit card companies do business. For a merchant to accept a CC, they have to pay a fee to the CC company. Individuals don't and don't want to do that.
Neopets were a take off on Tamagotchi or however you spell it. Basically, a little digital pet that you care for.
Hmmm. I wonder if it is illegal to copy and distribute copyright labels.
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What I'd really like to see is a PC gaming specialty store. Not just with new games, but with classic games, and with hardware upgrades for your computer - video cards, memory, processors, etc. I grant that it probably wouldn't be profitable, but it sure as hell would be nice.
So no big breakthrough, but it is nice that they narrowed down the field of search a bit.
Besides, the man with the hammer likely doesn't have the same degree of education of the man overseeing the robots. You go compare the relative levels of education of one of Henry Ford's assembly line men and one of the overseers of machinery on any of Ford's assembly lines. The same man could not do the same job. And that transfer of employment from man-run assembly lines to machine-based lines was part of the collapse of Motor City USA (i.e. Detroit, Michigan) in the 70s and 80s into one of the highest places of unemployment in the US.
I'm looking forward to the day when most menial, dangerous and physically wearing work can be automated. Why's that? You trying to put a very large portion of humanity out of work? Without those jobs available for people to make a living, what are they going to do to support themselves and their families? You have to remember that science fiction is exactly that: fiction. Reality is not the idyllic place that it's made out to be in many stories. And it's not the dystopia that it's made out to be in many others. It's somewhere in between. So not only will robots not take over all the high-danger/low-skill jobs because of economic constraints, they won't revolt and try to kill us all. Though if you kick that damn robot dog one too many times it will start spraying oil on your shoes and bed.
Hell, even easier would be to send pre-fab structures that robots could assemble and robots designed to gather lunar soil and process it to collect oxygen/breathable air to fill those structures.