"This and the large size of Charon relative to Pluto has led some astronomers to call it a dwarf double planet". (wiki) Didn't pay attention to nyx and hydra, since wasn't sure if the orbits were convoluted by the barycenter of the main two or not.
Yeah, really. That was my first thought: what the hell, first you say it's not a planet, but now we're back to moons? I know, call them dwarf-moons...or moonoids! While whatever definition it's under might still have it be correct to call them moons, it still seems silly.
It's a reason I've used the same winamp install and ported it between computers: the media library tracked what I listened to, with the added filter of 'but only if listened to more than 50% of it'.
End result? Out of 20Gig of music, there is a few dozen songs with a few hundred plays, a hundred or so with a hundred plays, and a vast majority that were listened to less than 30 times over the last few years.
I can definitely see people listening to a handful of albums primarily, with the odd 'song of the moment' that they caught in passing. Good gods, I knew people who pretty much just listened to one album for years (Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall one):P
Nah, my dislikes go farther back, much farther than this stuff. Nothing to do with i-anything, or this topic really. More of an 80s hate that lingers and gains a few elements over time. It's also towards the company and not products themselves (though one apple computer I have at work I despise personally:P).
Used ''fanbois' as opposed 'fans' because while I have no issue with someone liking their product, I've issue with blind adoration, same with Linux ('Wow, your friend wrote it so it must be better? And if he made a scalpel, would you let him do surgery?'), same with M$, same with anything actually. I'll mock anyone that refuses to admit their faves have flaws.
I also don't walk up to people with an iPad and try to convince them to change. The scenario is "I was thinking about getting a computer. How about an iPad?", to which I will steer them to... well actually, nothing in particular. Make your own computer (which pretty much means PC), run what you need, what you want, etc. But someone wanting an gaming laptop for their kid... when asked an opinion I'm definitely going to push them towards a PC and desktop instead. If at the end they still want an Apple-something *shrug* I'll not be offended. Amused, but it is, like you implied, their choice.
Again, my point is merely just as something you love can have flaws, something you hate can have admirable qualities as well.
Think you're confusing hatred with idiocy. I hate Apple, loathe them for many reasons. Will never buy their product, mock their fanbois, and try to steer people away from them. Doesn't prevent me from thinking they took a good stance here and it being laudable. Hatred is fine, blind hatred is dumb.
Still... the only thing I walk away from this is the idea some parents will abuse Apple's attempt to 'do the right thing'. No pity for the companies involved mind you. Just law of unintended consequences.
Caveat: if limiting to United States, the amount on average a white person would face would be trivial comparatively. Was more going towards "it isn't always rosey for the melanin-challenged".
Could make an argument about affirmative action - if there are finite spots and precedence is given to a race, that's tantamount to denying the other races.
South Africa post-apartheid (amongst other policies) would be a nice source against 'whites are always privileged'. Singled out for attacks, land taken away, 80% of jobs reserved for blacks, etc.
Why would democracy without a republic be a monarchy?
Simply have everything as an idea/project/request/law be submitted by anyone, then have everyone vote on it, and if it hits 51% it happens... until the next idea/complaint/request, where everyone votes again and if it reaches 51% the first is tossed out.
No president, congress, senators, leaders...just people, ideas, and votes votes votes.
Which.. obviously will never get anywhere...too much voting, and too much opinion by everyone not knowing or caring (voter fatique) and just voting to get their duty to vote out of the way. You can have it, but don't think anyone would want it.
In the Weiss/Hickman's Starshield series, the laws of physics were 'localised phenomena' so any ship required multiple propulsion methods to safely travel. Mind you hadn't read the books, but think it unique insofar as while some books might have races using different methods to FTL, this would be the first case I know of which made it requisite. If I remember right though, those books leaned more to science fantasy than fiction.
Same. Grew up learning both.. but while metric lent itself to math easier it seemed, imperial just was more 'real'. Thumbs for inches, feet for feet, 5 grams in a nickel (wait, scratch that one:P ). All the imperial units seem to have some story behind them: 'Furlong? A furrow plowed as wide as a farmer's field'.
Personally I'll use metric when I want to be precise, but use imperial if 'close works' since can eyeball it, visualise it, so on.
Horse racing still uses furlongs. And miles, and lengths (of horses), and hands.
Still...it is changing over in reference, but seems weird when you do.. '5/8ths of a mile' tracks make no sense until you realise it's 5 furlongs a lap. For the record: the Derby is a 10 furlong race.
Does she have spurs? Use a riding crop? What type of bit does she use? How hard does she ride it? There are people who feel the horse industry is too cruel...
Dunno..sounds like would have the opposite effect: shooter goes to NRA convention, pulls out gun, gets off two maybe three shots...then is gunned down himself by everyone there.
End Totals:
Sandy Hook: 30 dead + gunman
NRA: 2 dead +gunman
On the other hand could end up with the world's largest bloodbath as people miss, hit the wrong people, people have no idea who the original shooter was, and they all just fire at anything remotely threatening (i.e. everyone else).
Trust in at least this: the comment was absolutely facetious. Rolled a 20 on my Spurious Logic check.
Agree though on the scary factor zealots cause, that's the reason for the added line about hair-envy: wishful thinking that I managed to push the comment past any hint of seriousness (realised the freckles weren't enough:P ).
But but...
Jesus is the Son of God.
God is perfection.
Thus God is white, Jesus was half-white, and had a long reddish-blond mane, bright blue eyes, and freckles!
Don't trust the Jewish description of him. They had him killed. Likely were jealous of the hair.
Four days after they removed the equipment, a man identifying himself as "Jay" left a message for a maintenance worker at the bank building, police say. When the worker returned the call, "Jay" asked if he'd taken his equipment. The answer: No, but the cops did. "
Great, now i've images of the TSA preventing the terminal attacks by sending dangerous lions into low earth orbit, all the while wishing they could tell the common man about the important work they do.
Rather than spend twenty minutes going from ship to hanger to customs to outside...a game would let you just opt to 'appear outside'.
Instead of spamming some global chat for an hour, a 'looking for party' search system is setup.
Instead of that cruddy LFP, a 'matching up people' system is setup.
Instead of dismounting to talk to an NPC to turnin a quest, then immediately remount, you can now talk to the NPC while still on your horse.
The little tweaks and changes that don't affect combat or make your character more powerful... but instead get rid of the nuisances and issues you the player have, making the game more enjoyable. (YMMV-some QoL changes have people screaming about broken immersion or 'missing the point' e.g. instant-travel ability vs sense of world's size)
I'm not really sure what compensation would satisfy me were I locked up for 30 years and emerged a senior citizen in a now-alien world.
Hookers, viagra and a mountain of cocaine in a penthouse to spend my twilight few years? The execution of anyone found to have perjured in my case?
Sure if the evidence is early and you're freed in the first few years I can see compensation being reasonable.. but isn't that what all the lengthy appeals are all about? Execution takes someone's life, but life behind bars has pretty much done the same thing.
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"This and the large size of Charon relative to Pluto has led some astronomers to call it a dwarf double planet". (wiki)
Didn't pay attention to nyx and hydra, since wasn't sure if the orbits were convoluted by the barycenter of the main two or not.
Yeah, really. That was my first thought: what the hell, first you say it's not a planet, but now we're back to moons? I know, call them dwarf-moons...or moonoids!
While whatever definition it's under might still have it be correct to call them moons, it still seems silly.
c.f. Googled
It's a reason I've used the same winamp install and ported it between computers: the media library tracked what I listened to, with the added filter of 'but only if listened to more than 50% of it'.
:P
End result? Out of 20Gig of music, there is a few dozen songs with a few hundred plays, a hundred or so with a hundred plays, and a vast majority that were listened to less than 30 times over the last few years.
I can definitely see people listening to a handful of albums primarily, with the odd 'song of the moment' that they caught in passing. Good gods, I knew people who pretty much just listened to one album for years (Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall one)
*misreads as red-head
Well..the topic is 'plug and play'
Nah, my dislikes go farther back, much farther than this stuff. Nothing to do with i-anything, or this topic really. More of an 80s hate that lingers and gains a few elements over time. It's also towards the company and not products themselves (though one apple computer I have at work I despise personally :P).
Used ''fanbois' as opposed 'fans' because while I have no issue with someone liking their product, I've issue with blind adoration, same with Linux ('Wow, your friend wrote it so it must be better? And if he made a scalpel, would you let him do surgery?'), same with M$, same with anything actually. I'll mock anyone that refuses to admit their faves have flaws.
I also don't walk up to people with an iPad and try to convince them to change. The scenario is "I was thinking about getting a computer. How about an iPad?", to which I will steer them to... well actually, nothing in particular. Make your own computer (which pretty much means PC), run what you need, what you want, etc. But someone wanting an gaming laptop for their kid... when asked an opinion I'm definitely going to push them towards a PC and desktop instead. If at the end they still want an Apple-something *shrug* I'll not be offended. Amused, but it is, like you implied, their choice.
Again, my point is merely just as something you love can have flaws, something you hate can have admirable qualities as well.
Think you're confusing hatred with idiocy. I hate Apple, loathe them for many reasons. Will never buy their product, mock their fanbois, and try to steer people away from them. Doesn't prevent me from thinking they took a good stance here and it being laudable. Hatred is fine, blind hatred is dumb.
Still... the only thing I walk away from this is the idea some parents will abuse Apple's attempt to 'do the right thing'. No pity for the companies involved mind you. Just law of unintended consequences.
Caveat: if limiting to United States, the amount on average a white person would face would be trivial comparatively. Was more going towards "it isn't always rosey for the melanin-challenged".
Could make an argument about affirmative action - if there are finite spots and precedence is given to a race, that's tantamount to denying the other races.
South Africa post-apartheid (amongst other policies) would be a nice source against 'whites are always privileged'. Singled out for attacks, land taken away, 80% of jobs reserved for blacks, etc.
Why would democracy without a republic be a monarchy?
Simply have everything as an idea/project/request/law be submitted by anyone, then have everyone vote on it, and if it hits 51% it happens... until the next idea/complaint/request, where everyone votes again and if it reaches 51% the first is tossed out.
No president, congress, senators, leaders...just people, ideas, and votes votes votes.
Which.. obviously will never get anywhere...too much voting, and too much opinion by everyone not knowing or caring (voter fatique) and just voting to get their duty to vote out of the way. You can have it, but don't think anyone would want it.
In the Weiss/Hickman's Starshield series, the laws of physics were 'localised phenomena' so any ship required multiple propulsion methods to safely travel. Mind you hadn't read the books, but think it unique insofar as while some books might have races using different methods to FTL, this would be the first case I know of which made it requisite. If I remember right though, those books leaned more to science fantasy than fiction.
Same. Grew up learning both.. but while metric lent itself to math easier it seemed, imperial just was more 'real'. Thumbs for inches, feet for feet, 5 grams in a nickel (wait, scratch that one :P ). All the imperial units seem to have some story behind them: 'Furlong? A furrow plowed as wide as a farmer's field'.
Personally I'll use metric when I want to be precise, but use imperial if 'close works' since can eyeball it, visualise it, so on.
They cancelled the Kentucky Derby?
Horse racing still uses furlongs. And miles, and lengths (of horses), and hands.
Still...it is changing over in reference, but seems weird when you do.. '5/8ths of a mile' tracks make no sense until you realise it's 5 furlongs a lap. For the record: the Derby is a 10 furlong race.
Does she have spurs? Use a riding crop? What type of bit does she use? How hard does she ride it?
There are people who feel the horse industry is too cruel...
Dunno..sounds like would have the opposite effect: shooter goes to NRA convention, pulls out gun, gets off two maybe three shots...then is gunned down himself by everyone there.
End Totals:
Sandy Hook: 30 dead + gunman
NRA: 2 dead +gunman
On the other hand could end up with the world's largest bloodbath as people miss, hit the wrong people, people have no idea who the original shooter was, and they all just fire at anything remotely threatening (i.e. everyone else).
Trust in at least this: the comment was absolutely facetious. Rolled a 20 on my Spurious Logic check.
:P ).
Agree though on the scary factor zealots cause, that's the reason for the added line about hair-envy: wishful thinking that I managed to push the comment past any hint of seriousness (realised the freckles weren't enough
Denmark was bombed?
But but...
Jesus is the Son of God.
God is perfection.
Thus God is white, Jesus was half-white, and had a long reddish-blond mane, bright blue eyes, and freckles!
Don't trust the Jewish description of him. They had him killed. Likely were jealous of the hair.
~From article
Great, now i've images of the TSA preventing the terminal attacks by sending dangerous lions into low earth orbit, all the while wishing they could tell the common man about the important work they do.
*blink* "On-screen options to hangup or redial, instead of special buttons"...that's the best I can glean from it.
As how I'd use it, would mean just that.
Rather than spend twenty minutes going from ship to hanger to customs to outside...a game would let you just opt to 'appear outside'.
Instead of spamming some global chat for an hour, a 'looking for party' search system is setup.
Instead of that cruddy LFP, a 'matching up people' system is setup.
Instead of dismounting to talk to an NPC to turnin a quest, then immediately remount, you can now talk to the NPC while still on your horse.
The little tweaks and changes that don't affect combat or make your character more powerful... but instead get rid of the nuisances and issues you the player have, making the game more enjoyable. (YMMV-some QoL changes have people screaming about broken immersion or 'missing the point' e.g. instant-travel ability vs sense of world's size)
Start a casino
I'm not really sure what compensation would satisfy me were I locked up for 30 years and emerged a senior citizen in a now-alien world. Hookers, viagra and a mountain of cocaine in a penthouse to spend my twilight few years? The execution of anyone found to have perjured in my case?
Sure if the evidence is early and you're freed in the first few years I can see compensation being reasonable.. but isn't that what all the lengthy appeals are all about? Execution takes someone's life, but life behind bars has pretty much done the same thing.
Why are there people who would rather die than go to jail?