No but I remember being 10 and getting a floppy from a schoolmate that was filled with porn images. Porn on the commodore 64... was 'red-scale', heavily pixelated, and for some reason rotated 90 degrees... but dagnabbit thems was hooters I tells ya!
Heh, that's the same reason I learned to write left handed back in school. Long essay tests had my right hand cramping up, and you can't ask the teacher to be excused for an hour to relax it. Carried that idea onwards by learning to off-hand pretty much everything in case of injury or fatigue.
Never did figure out how to decently use scissors left handed though. *shrug*
When I installed DDO, I didn't catch any mention that it would continue to act as a peering client well past installation/downloading..running silently even when hadn't loaded up the game after a reboot.. Only caught it when checking discrepancies as to where 40 gig of bandwidth disappeared that month (blew my ISP's lousy cap that time).
The software uninstalled pretty easily, and wouldn't have minded running it occasionally or in a limited fashion, but cannot claim to be impressed by it.
You totally forgot sound effects. No presentation is complete without typewriting noises, lasers blasts or something else equally annoying, everywhere.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. Having said that, I know of few dozen preteen/youngteens who did exactly what he said: facebook is the net, they are aghast I don't use facebook, they migrated from myspace for various reasons, and their email is just for signing up to things. They express no interest in 'the old ways'. The stuff they use are just tools to use, not something to learn he ins and outs of or find non-standard uses for.
Naturally, this is a small sample in the scheme of things, no rigour in this 'study'; it's hardly scientific. It's a biased sample at that: friends of relatives and the children of coworkers. It is the mindset of at least some though.
And some of us during the quake went: "wow, big truck going by. wait, you feel it too? must be an earthquake, neat....Think that was a 3? I wanna do it again. Maybe we'll get aftershocks??"
It was actually fun, since no damage. Then we had a thunderstorm and a tornado-warnings, but it was Midland that managed to get the twister. Boo.
Wimps? Hardly, just a few worried people, and a bunch who were rather blase about it, and some who had fun with it. Kinda obvious this wasn't something like a 8.0, just a break from the humdrum.
So you store it... 16story batteries... 5 miles of capacitor banks, something. Of course that won't ever happen, but neither will the Sahara be powering the world (pretty sure be some hefty loss in the transmission to New Zealand or Hawaii, plus logistics involved in setting it up/running it, would put it well past feasible).
Just an attempt at selling the potential there: 'of COURSE this isn't a waste of cash, we're tapping just an iota of the power that is the desert sun! even if we screw up massively we can still come out ahead, and if not, well, we tried, what have you done for the planet lately?'
Personally more curious of the damage a sandstorm could do to the solar cells, or attempts at 'kidnapping/hijacking for prisoners for ransom', than worried about terrorist bombings (to address another post).
I misread it as Uwe Boll being sued BY thousands of movie pirates, demanding time and bandwidth back. Shouldn't be hard to prove watching the movie was damaging.
Think there have been studies on that. Conclusion was that speed limited reaction time, and vastly increased severity of the accident, but erratic driving, distractions and hesitation were more a causing factor. Still, two cars crashing at 20 are at less risk of having fatalities than two cars at 100.
Personal experience? Rule of thumb I was *taught* was Speed Limit + 10 kmph=Okay to drive at... as that put you under getting demerit points on your ticket (and thus an insurance hike), so a ticket was just a cheap one.
Was this on the books? No. This was though what the driver's ed instructor informed his classes 'informally', so there are groups of people with this mindset.
It's also observable in a highway that changes speeds: 110 in the 100 zone, drop to 100 in the 90, 70 in the 60, then back up to 110 in the 100.
At least here in Ontario that seems to be the case (disregarding the ones that just do 130 the entire way)
I support unnecessary bleeping. Says a lot about your own mind when you automatically insert vulgarity, even when you know that that cannot be the word hidden under the bleep.
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Just because you're a virgin at 40, doesn't mean it's mandatory for everyone else. Kid at 24, then kid has kid at 24, leaves her a year to spare.
No but I remember being 10 and getting a floppy from a schoolmate that was filled with porn images. Porn on the commodore 64... was 'red-scale', heavily pixelated, and for some reason rotated 90 degrees... but dagnabbit thems was hooters I tells ya!
Nah, you're just allergic to heat.
Heh, that's the same reason I learned to write left handed back in school. Long essay tests had my right hand cramping up, and you can't ask the teacher to be excused for an hour to relax it. Carried that idea onwards by learning to off-hand pretty much everything in case of injury or fatigue.
Never did figure out how to decently use scissors left handed though. *shrug*
When I installed DDO, I didn't catch any mention that it would continue to act as a peering client well past installation/downloading..running silently even when hadn't loaded up the game after a reboot.. Only caught it when checking discrepancies as to where 40 gig of bandwidth disappeared that month (blew my ISP's lousy cap that time).
The software uninstalled pretty easily, and wouldn't have minded running it occasionally or in a limited fashion, but cannot claim to be impressed by it.
That works for the Germans. Now examine the Japanese books...
You totally forgot sound effects. No presentation is complete without typewriting noises, lasers blasts or something else equally annoying, everywhere.
No worse than trying to figure how it escaped public notice so long, then just rationalising it as tachyon research.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. Having said that, I know of few dozen preteen/youngteens who did exactly what he said: facebook is the net, they are aghast I don't use facebook, they migrated from myspace for various reasons, and their email is just for signing up to things. They express no interest in 'the old ways'. The stuff they use are just tools to use, not something to learn he ins and outs of or find non-standard uses for.
Naturally, this is a small sample in the scheme of things, no rigour in this 'study'; it's hardly scientific. It's a biased sample at that: friends of relatives and the children of coworkers. It is the mindset of at least some though.
yawnyawn.
...Think that was a 3? I wanna do it again. Maybe we'll get aftershocks??"
And some of us during the quake went: "wow, big truck going by. wait, you feel it too? must be an earthquake, neat.
It was actually fun, since no damage. Then we had a thunderstorm and a tornado-warnings, but it was Midland that managed to get the twister. Boo.
Wimps? Hardly, just a few worried people, and a bunch who were rather blase about it, and some who had fun with it. Kinda obvious this wasn't something like a 8.0, just a break from the humdrum.
So you store it... 16story batteries... 5 miles of capacitor banks, something. Of course that won't ever happen, but neither will the Sahara be powering the world (pretty sure be some hefty loss in the transmission to New Zealand or Hawaii, plus logistics involved in setting it up/running it, would put it well past feasible).
Just an attempt at selling the potential there: 'of COURSE this isn't a waste of cash, we're tapping just an iota of the power that is the desert sun! even if we screw up massively we can still come out ahead, and if not, well, we tried, what have you done for the planet lately?'
Personally more curious of the damage a sandstorm could do to the solar cells, or attempts at 'kidnapping/hijacking for prisoners for ransom', than worried about terrorist bombings (to address another post).
I think it still counts if they take the kids with them in the car
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So you've been to casinos too?
I misread it as Uwe Boll being sued BY thousands of movie pirates, demanding time and bandwidth back. Shouldn't be hard to prove watching the movie was damaging.
Given a choice between that or Letters from Juliet? Yeah, I'd see it. Root for the croc too
It's being made into a live-action movie as well.
Think there have been studies on that. Conclusion was that speed limited reaction time, and vastly increased severity of the accident, but erratic driving, distractions and hesitation were more a causing factor. Still, two cars crashing at 20 are at less risk of having fatalities than two cars at 100.
Personal experience? Rule of thumb I was *taught* was Speed Limit + 10 kmph=Okay to drive at... as that put you under getting demerit points on your ticket (and thus an insurance hike), so a ticket was just a cheap one.
Was this on the books? No. This was though what the driver's ed instructor informed his classes 'informally', so there are groups of people with this mindset.
It's also observable in a highway that changes speeds: 110 in the 100 zone, drop to 100 in the 90, 70 in the 60, then back up to 110 in the 100.
At least here in Ontario that seems to be the case (disregarding the ones that just do 130 the entire way)
Reminds me of Flare* by Zelazny/Thomas: the unnaturally quiet sun bodes ill.
*not a recommendation of the novel, esp. for Zelazny fans.
I support unnecessary bleeping. Says a lot about your own mind when you automatically insert vulgarity, even when you know that that cannot be the word hidden under the bleep.
Heh. Flavour? You can't have that, we'll boil that out of it yet!
There are some damned good Dutch dishes..but were there ever a lot of bland ones growing up.
Although the dutch east indies dishes...yum.
Tell that to the workers at the SEC
All I can think of is guilds shattering from the game forking :D
To be fair, not everyone is aware of of that site. Personally dismissed it as another of the dozens of youtube-esque hosting sites.
:p
Of course we'd discover it if we clicked on it, but some of us are just that lazy