I hear a text version is in development...
"you find yourself in a metal metal corridor with a healthpack at one end, and an Eight Ball at the other. Thre are bloodstains on the floor under your feet; you hear the sound of footsteps approaching"
[take EightBall]
"You grab the EightBall"
[take healthpack]
--== el33t [sniper rifle] player_1 ==-
"You get halfway across the corridor but are shot in the back of the head with the sniper rifle by el33t"
[respawn]
"You respawn in the same room, only to be instantly clubbed to death by el33t, the spawn camping shit"
Thing is, I think Clancy didn't to too badly when showing that actually half the time the intelligence community doesn't know what's going on, they're not omnipotent, and that communication is very far from perfect; with multiple levels of bureaucracy, personal matters getting in the way of getting things done, and the occasional bout of duplicity.
Maybe they were just trying to lure foreign airforces to use it in their hangars, so if^H^H when the U.S invades somewhere all the pilots are stuck behind two very, very large doors.
This, I think, might more than even the odds during duck hunting season; "Oho!fly away, will ya? c'mere!"
The scary thing is, what if someone mounted a bigass cube of C4 on a suitably endowed R/C plane or 'copter and flew it at a presidential motorcade. The controller could be way outside the normal protection cordon, and could steer with a video feed from the vehicle. That is, if he could manage to get a radio signal in and out.... I'd assume that the Secret Service use every type of radio jamming and monitoring device they can get their hands on around a motorcade like that.
That, and I'm sure at least one person in the protection has a shottie on their person and has been clay pigeon shooting before.
Hey what about having a track and field version of throwing the hammer? You;d swing round and round your living room, then press to release at the appropriate time.
It would make the pole vault and the javelin interesting at any rate:D
Hah, I plan to do exactly this, I guess I'm not the only one to have the idea- the Wii isn't out here till the 8th, but my preorder is in and pretty much guaranteed.
I don't know how the hell issuing a cease and desist so as to hold onto your digitalglobe reseller account could be construed as evil.
If Digitalglobe (who are the providers of Google's content on google earth) decided Google were breaching their TOS and decided they'd be better off keeping their imaging to themselves then everyone loses, including anyone using local.google.com and Google Earth.
Seems to me that Google are trying to keep a good thing going, and being IMHO reasonably respectful towards the Gaia project's authors.
Offtopic I know, but here's a flipside question that occurred to me when RTFA: if we were an alien species sending probes to land on Earth, where would we pick to land based on imagery of at the resolution we're getting back from Mars?
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I hear a text version is in development... "you find yourself in a metal metal corridor with a healthpack at one end, and an Eight Ball at the other. Thre are bloodstains on the floor under your feet; you hear the sound of footsteps approaching"
[take EightBall]
"You grab the EightBall"
[take healthpack] --== el33t [sniper rifle] player_1 ==- "You get halfway across the corridor but are shot in the back of the head with the sniper rifle by el33t" [respawn] "You respawn in the same room, only to be instantly clubbed to death by el33t, the spawn camping shit"
Thing is, I think Clancy didn't to too badly when showing that actually half the time the intelligence community doesn't know what's going on, they're not omnipotent, and that communication is very far from perfect; with multiple levels of bureaucracy, personal matters getting in the way of getting things done, and the occasional bout of duplicity.
It's like the saying... keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer ;)
Actually, I think the correct term is gaggle, but I could be mistaken.
Ponies!!!
Oh come on, there has to be at least one republican senator into that kind of thing.
I mean, they've been caught doing everything else.
Surely finding organic compounds should change the name of a meteorite to a meateorite. Yummy!
Maybe they were just trying to lure foreign airforces to use it in their hangars, so if^H^H when the U.S invades somewhere all the pilots are stuck behind two very, very large doors.
A cunning plan indeed
I believe the technical term for such matters is "LOL, PWNED!".
"Tire production accounts for some of that number; the factory also produces 306 million tiny rubber tires a year."
I'm guessing there's a relates statistic that says that 76.5 million tiny rubber tyres get eaten by kids every year.
The lovechild of an automatic shotgun and an R/C 'copter : Be and, indeed, hold!
This, I think, might more than even the odds during duck hunting season; "Oho!fly away, will ya? c'mere!"
The scary thing is, what if someone mounted a bigass cube of C4 on a suitably endowed R/C plane or 'copter and flew it at a presidential motorcade. The controller could be way outside the normal protection cordon, and could steer with a video feed from the vehicle. That is, if he could manage to get a radio signal in and out.... I'd assume that the Secret Service use every type of radio jamming and monitoring device they can get their hands on around a motorcade like that.
That, and I'm sure at least one person in the protection has a shottie on their person and has been clay pigeon shooting before.
About cunting time someone mentioned this. /sulks
Unfortunately in Cliff Richard's case, he appears to have died a long time ago.
"What Samsung did next is not known."
;)
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
With Samsung, it's not that hard to imagine
More of a seekernet than a sneakernet, then.
If you know anyone who was a high-up in Enron, I'm sure they'll be able to put you in touch with someone.
heheheh, you made me snort cornflakes :D
South Korea is moving home?
That's a lot of cardboard boxes. Time to get stocks in the paper industry, I think.
Whenever the spinoff threatens the very existence of your own. It's that serious.
Hey what about having a track and field version of throwing the hammer? You;d swing round and round your living room, then press to release at the appropriate time.
:D
It would make the pole vault and the javelin interesting at any rate
Hah, I plan to do exactly this, I guess I'm not the only one to have the idea- the Wii isn't out here till the 8th, but my preorder is in and pretty much guaranteed.
I don't know how the hell issuing a cease and desist so as to hold onto your digitalglobe reseller account could be construed as evil.
If Digitalglobe (who are the providers of Google's content on google earth) decided Google were breaching their TOS and decided they'd be better off keeping their imaging to themselves then everyone loses, including anyone using local.google.com and Google Earth.
Seems to me that Google are trying to keep a good thing going, and being IMHO reasonably respectful towards the Gaia project's authors.
Offtopic I know, but here's a flipside question that occurred to me when RTFA: if we were an alien species sending probes to land on Earth, where would we pick to land based on imagery of at the resolution we're getting back from Mars?
And don't say here
Personally, I'd be more worried about it throwing the darts at a passing dignitary, or at myself.
Remember: sticks and stones may break your bones but feces just splatters.