though i agree with your sentiment, i knee-jerked a bit at Art History. it's actually pretty useful - there's a lot of art out there and it has a genuine place in society (in fact, i'd argue a society without art would be extremely disturbing).
lots of money in it if you know your shit. what's not to like?
it's probably to do with claims made. rather like in advertising.
the other day i heard a homoeopathy believer say her son's autism was cured by homoeopathy.
i knew at that point there was nothing i could say that would make a difference to her.
when there's people selling placebos to cure cancer, very real harm is done, and it's easily measured.
i'd love it if chiros, homoeopaths, applied kinesiologists, scientologists etc were legally required to disclaim everything they did with "this is not proven to work any better than a placebo". that would be enough for me.
i suppose if you can't get enough U235 to make a supercritical mass in a gun design... the implosion malarkey works with less material IIRC (maybe you need one of those linear accelerator initiator things to get it all happening though).
it's actually kinda offensive you put Iran in with the rest of the middle east, as if there's no difference between all those countries, and even regions within (and across the borders of) those countries.
stuxnet made a big dent in their enrichment activities (ie they had to start again because any material they'd made during the affected time would not be viable).
they are apparently working on a high-explosive lens system - that's what IAEA were worried about, that they were looking into making the critical trick to an implosion device.
only problem - enrichment is for uranium, and high-explosive lenses are for plutonium. their one nuke plant is not of the kind that can be used to make pu 239 (which no doubt is why they were allowed to build it).
maybe they're doing what the yanks did and they're working on 2 bombs at once?
the gameplay is very different. for a start, collision detection is over the 64x64 sprite in old doom, where it's done on the alpha channel in doomsday et al. this means i can pick off baddies hiding round corners and they wont see me until their centre can see my centre.
also, you can save game, reload, and the baddies are asleep again.
yes, i know this is cheating, kinda. more like gaming the game.
i'm not a gamer, and play doom2 on the train on the way to work.
not saying my way is better, just that's the way doom was when i was a dumb kid.
all due respect, i am running 10.10 netbook remix (first test of unity), and i currently have 3 browsers open, 3 terminals, a photo-editing app (darktable is pretty damn good these days) which i compile myself, plus skype, and occasionally dosbox'd doom2 and carmageddon.
the interface will get out of your way if you hit f11.
just sayin'. unity is certainly not perfect, but i use the sidebar more often than not. some stuff i'll launch from a terminal.
anon is chaotic neutral, to use a card-based analogy (close to a car analogy).
anon could well be exposing wikileaks as Assange's personal paranoid fapfest, and also exposing stratfor for being a piece of shit incompetent govt fraud agency. they could get double-lulz...
it's nukes are fizzers. they haven't the capacity to make a useful one.
from their test record, as soon as they get enough plutonium, they blow it up. i doubt they're stockpiling if they can't spare enough Pu to rattle their sabre.
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though i agree with your sentiment, i knee-jerked a bit at Art History. it's actually pretty useful - there's a lot of art out there and it has a genuine place in society (in fact, i'd argue a society without art would be extremely disturbing).
lots of money in it if you know your shit. what's not to like?
it's probably to do with claims made. rather like in advertising.
the other day i heard a homoeopathy believer say her son's autism was cured by homoeopathy.
i knew at that point there was nothing i could say that would make a difference to her.
when there's people selling placebos to cure cancer, very real harm is done, and it's easily measured.
i'd love it if chiros, homoeopaths, applied kinesiologists, scientologists etc were legally required to disclaim everything they did with "this is not proven to work any better than a placebo". that would be enough for me.
now... to teach people what placebo means...
i've never heard of anit-venom anywhere. so i suppose you could be right.
i suppose if you can't get enough U235 to make a supercritical mass in a gun design... the implosion malarkey works with less material IIRC (maybe you need one of those linear accelerator initiator things to get it all happening though).
gimme some citations. i could use a laugh.
here's one. name a few days since 1945 where the USA has not been at war.
and yes, the war on drugs counts - look at what happened to a big chunk of central america.
it's actually kinda offensive you put Iran in with the rest of the middle east, as if there's no difference between all those countries, and even regions within (and across the borders of) those countries.
no mention of Iran? your argument is really so weak you can't even address the other's?
doesn't all add up though.
stuxnet made a big dent in their enrichment activities (ie they had to start again because any material they'd made during the affected time would not be viable).
they are apparently working on a high-explosive lens system - that's what IAEA were worried about, that they were looking into making the critical trick to an implosion device.
only problem - enrichment is for uranium, and high-explosive lenses are for plutonium. their one nuke plant is not of the kind that can be used to make pu 239 (which no doubt is why they were allowed to build it).
maybe they're doing what the yanks did and they're working on 2 bombs at once?
...allegedly.
different.
the gameplay is very different. for a start, collision detection is over the 64x64 sprite in old doom, where it's done on the alpha channel in doomsday et al. this means i can pick off baddies hiding round corners and they wont see me until their centre can see my centre.
also, you can save game, reload, and the baddies are asleep again.
yes, i know this is cheating, kinda. more like gaming the game.
i'm not a gamer, and play doom2 on the train on the way to work.
not saying my way is better, just that's the way doom was when i was a dumb kid.
lawyers be hatin' :)
i had read that sig before, and i apologise for thinking of something that i was in fact just remembering.
i have no interest in rebutting your point. in fact i completely forgot what you had stated after i read the word "hater".
that was the point of my post.
you could have proved that P=NP and i would not have given a shit, because you killed it with those last three words.
and the 4 desktop button thingy is still there, but coming from windows i'm an alt+tab man myself. i use it when i need it.
all due respect, i am running 10.10 netbook remix (first test of unity), and i currently have 3 browsers open, 3 terminals, a photo-editing app (darktable is pretty damn good these days) which i compile myself, plus skype, and occasionally dosbox'd doom2 and carmageddon.
the interface will get out of your way if you hit f11.
just sayin'. unity is certainly not perfect, but i use the sidebar more often than not. some stuff i'll launch from a terminal.
cock jokes are always funny, you humourless clod!
well, the price is right.
anonymous and wikileaks are quite different.
anon is chaotic neutral, to use a card-based analogy (close to a car analogy).
anon could well be exposing wikileaks as Assange's personal paranoid fapfest, and also exposing stratfor for being a piece of shit incompetent govt fraud agency. they could get double-lulz...
perspective foreshortening - from where you're sitting, everything is far to the left.
use of the word "hater" immediately loses the argument.
it shall be known as Mug's law, if that isn't already taken.
adding that button would be a simple matter, but i suspect that once it's clicked something would have to happen which would be the hard part.
it's nukes are fizzers. they haven't the capacity to make a useful one.
from their test record, as soon as they get enough plutonium, they blow it up. i doubt they're stockpiling if they can't spare enough Pu to rattle their sabre.
how exactly can one produce weapons with a light water reactor?
i suppose you could let the coolant drain out of it, but it's not exactly aircraft deliverable.
"...flying unicorns are going to be dropping gold nuggets from the clouds"
i'd hope those nuggets had silk parachutes, otherwise there could be many casualties.
fuck man, thanks for the nightmares. i wish i hadn't read that.
happy to be living in a rich country...