Here's hoping the trio are teaming up for a third go-around out of love for the franchise instead of love for another paycheck. I can think of far too many ways this project could go sour, especially since it's been, what, almost two decades since the 2nd flick? Good luck, guys. We're pulling for you.
But that alone would have conflicted with the story of GLaDOS having gassed all of the A.S. employees. The complete and utter LACK of NPC's made the game (for me, at least), and would have killed the experience with your Weighted Companion Cube.
Jack Thompson is a media-whoring nut job who will stop at nothing to pander to to his... to his... well, whoever he panders to. The only surprising thing about this ordeal is that it hasn't reached critical mass already.
Say what you will, but when USI Wireless opened up the Minneapolis Municipal Wi-Fi for emergency service after the 35W bridge collapse, it was an absolute godsend. Especially in my neighborhood, which is currently in the middle of a territory dispute, and the only provider (Covad) charges $100/mo (seriously) for a 1.5/Mbps line - well beyond the reach of what are, by-and-large, poor & infirmed residents living off Social Security.
Perhaps you're thinking too narrowly about net use. It's not strictly about "candid photography" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) or submitting job applications. The additional city-wide access to all the major online news outlets, email and such in times of disaster is worth its weight in gold.
Are you mods on crack again? How is answering a question in the third post in a thread (which incidentally became the 5th or 6th post total) redundant? It's like you're not even trying! If you want to take a swipe at my karma, the very least least you can do is mod me overrated!
It's not as though The Powers That Be don't know and don't care - they most certainly know, but that's not the point. It helps them establish a track record of "thinking of the children", which makes it all the easier to posture on their soapboxes come election time.
It's hard to respond to this without sounding like an anti-capitalist yahoo (certainly am not), but here goes...
I agree, profit & bottom line == king. It's an (arguable) inevitable side-effect of the world we live in, for better or worse.
What irks me, however, is that these plants handle some of the most potently lethal substances known to man. If anything manages to seep into the wild, the consequences are terrific. The blasé, 'what they don't know wont hurt them', attitude is the very stuff that major catastrophes are made of. That's what pisses me off.
"I'm not saying that issues like this should be hidden..."
But that's exactly what did happen. I agree with you in that not every little incident should be reported to the public (via local/national news, etc...), but actively making sure that information about incidents such as there are completely inaccessible to the public is something else entirely.
"I think if we were to have an event like this again, we would push to make it public,"
And I think that this kind of ass-backwards thinking is exactly what's going to result in the next Chernobyl. How about instead of spending all your time on clean-up and PR, put a little foresight into the management of the damn facility.
"Clearly it would have been better to have this discussion 18 months ago than it is to have it now."
I was a very early adopter of the portable CD player. The thing was an absolute piece of garbage, you had to hold the thing completely level whist walking or risk scratching the CD, it wasn't bump tolerant in the least, and so on. To top it off, it came with a $400+ price tag. Ouch.
However, all that aside, after 2.5 decades in the market the median price of a commercial CD has dropped all of, what, $5?
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Unless Real Doll plans on applying this to their products in the future, something tells me we'll be OK;
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May contain sniveling, whining, pandering and groveling.
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Here's hoping the trio are teaming up for a third go-around out of love for the franchise instead of love for another paycheck. I can think of far too many ways this project could go sour, especially since it's been, what, almost two decades since the 2nd flick? Good luck, guys. We're pulling for you.
"Unless you are building a sex toy, giving a robot human (or animal) shape is expensive and pointless"
Wait, what?
Um...
So... how much longer until legislation catches up with that fringe market?
The pony tail remark I can deal with, but the bifocals and the paunch? Ageism! That's well below the belt. No hard candy for that youngster.
DUH! The Church of Scientology has been saying this for years now, people! Get with the times!
I'm betting he shat bricks.
But that alone would have conflicted with the story of GLaDOS having gassed all of the A.S. employees. The complete and utter LACK of NPC's made the game (for me, at least), and would have killed the experience with your Weighted Companion Cube.
Hasbro has been modifying our foods for years, and the results are horrifying.
Upon attempting to exploit the flaw, the virus was promptly greeted with ...BUFFERING... ...BUFFERING...
...make it cheaper or free! For example, Yaris for Xbox live...
And that game was worth every penny.
NyQuil - become good, close friends with it. It saved my sleepless butt countless times back when I quit, and best of all, no hangover.
*ding* "You've been canned!"
From TFA: Here are the monthly subscriber access fees charged by Canada's major cellphone providers:
* Rogers Wireless: $6.95
* Telus Mobility: $6.95
* Bell Mobility: $8.95, after a recent $2 increase
Well, at least they're not AT&T...
My thoughts exactly. Isn't this some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy?
1) Moron talks on his cell
2) Gets into accident
3) ???
4) Congestion!
This Friday just keeps getting better and better!
Jack Thompson is a media-whoring nut job who will stop at nothing to pander to to his... to his... well, whoever he panders to. The only surprising thing about this ordeal is that it hasn't reached critical mass already.
Say what you will, but when USI Wireless opened up the Minneapolis Municipal Wi-Fi for emergency service after the 35W bridge collapse, it was an absolute godsend. Especially in my neighborhood, which is currently in the middle of a territory dispute, and the only provider (Covad) charges $100/mo (seriously) for a 1.5/Mbps line - well beyond the reach of what are, by-and-large, poor & infirmed residents living off Social Security.
Perhaps you're thinking too narrowly about net use. It's not strictly about "candid photography" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) or submitting job applications. The additional city-wide access to all the major online news outlets, email and such in times of disaster is worth its weight in gold.
Are you mods on crack again? How is answering a question in the third post in a thread (which incidentally became the 5th or 6th post total) redundant? It's like you're not even trying! If you want to take a swipe at my karma, the very least least you can do is mod me overrated!
It's not as though The Powers That Be don't know and don't care - they most certainly know, but that's not the point. It helps them establish a track record of "thinking of the children", which makes it all the easier to posture on their soapboxes come election time.
It's hard to respond to this without sounding like an anti-capitalist yahoo (certainly am not), but here goes...
I agree, profit & bottom line == king. It's an (arguable) inevitable side-effect of the world we live in, for better or worse.
What irks me, however, is that these plants handle some of the most potently lethal substances known to man. If anything manages to seep into the wild, the consequences are terrific. The blasé, 'what they don't know wont hurt them', attitude is the very stuff that major catastrophes are made of. That's what pisses me off.
"I'm not saying that issues like this should be hidden..."
But that's exactly what did happen. I agree with you in that not every little incident should be reported to the public (via local/national news, etc...), but actively making sure that information about incidents such as there are completely inaccessible to the public is something else entirely.
"I think if we were to have an event like this again, we would push to make it public,"
And I think that this kind of ass-backwards thinking is exactly what's going to result in the next Chernobyl. How about instead of spending all your time on clean-up and PR, put a little foresight into the management of the damn facility.
"Clearly it would have been better to have this discussion 18 months ago than it is to have it now."
Clearly. Asshat.
Is this in reference to the movies' plot, or how much you'd love to forget you ever saw it?
I was a very early adopter of the portable CD player. The thing was an absolute piece of garbage, you had to hold the thing completely level whist walking or risk scratching the CD, it wasn't bump tolerant in the least, and so on. To top it off, it came with a $400+ price tag. Ouch.
However, all that aside, after 2.5 decades in the market the median price of a commercial CD has dropped all of, what, $5?
If you compile the Anarchists' Cookbook you wind up with Windows 3.11 for Networking.