I think you mean "No distance, no work", since if you have W=f/d and f > 0 and d = 0, then you still obviously have measurable f, but nothing for W (technically undefined, but hey).
Hmmm. Slightly anal, are we? Instead of arguing semantics, perhaps you should go with the original intent of the poster, that being that it was the most fun he had with a space sim/game/burger/whatever. I bet that people abruptly end conversations with you on a regular basis once you begin "clarifying" their vocabulary for them, don't they.
There's some debate on this. Another school of thought (which I believe is more believable) says that Solo ws trying to impress what he thought of as "country bumpkins" of a sort. So making grandiose statements about how good a pilot he was didn't necessarily have to make sense, so long as they SOUNDED impressive.
Besides, "12 parsecs" is 43 light years. Not exactly daring;)
I wonder how long it will take for some employee to tell you, "Unplug our TV's again and we'll have you escorted out of the building. If you return, you'll be charged for trespassing."
That's what I would do, anyway. No doubt the stores have contractual arrangements with the product distributors/marketers that oblige them to run the ads in a certain fashion and in a certain location.
Cocky assholes like yourself need a little whipping now and then to keep you in line. There's always going to be more customers. Any spine possessing manager should have you out on your ear.
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Wow... you know, there was another creative invention that was enabled by copyrights. They're called "downers". I think you need to look into getting some and consuming them on a regular basis.
Apparently, according to the Chinese Red Cross the number of deaths was around 2600, but the *injuries* could have ranged up to and around 10k. (see el wikipedia article for example).
I'm interested to hear where you're getting the information that the Chinese gov't regularly butchers farmers. I mean, they're no saints to be sure, but regular massacres? that requires some pretty hefty proof there, buddy.
I wish I had your luck. My HP Pavillion 4125 when I first bought it had bad pixels, so exchanged it. About 5 months into it the left mouse button started acting funny, but I used a mouse so I kept forgetting to get it serviced under warranty. Then the battery failed (amusing thing about that model, when the power subsystem tried to get the status on the battery, it would miss user input interrupts... confused the hell out of me why when it was on AC that it acted weird. once I pulled out the battery it worked great, though). Finally, the mainboard died about a month after it was out of warranty.
And the worst of it all? Never could get linux to run reliably on it (almost always got a kernel panic on the PCMCIA chipset or just a hang)
Apple for me this time around, I think (or one of those slick Dell D600 mini things)
This is usually a matter of students bringing their lovely cable modem setups from home, then plugging them in wrong at school and kindly giving out 192.168.x.x leases to their neighbors. Restricting routers solves that problem for the non-technically literate, and the technically literate are more or less transparent to the IT support folks anyway (unless doing something stupid like using a ton of bandwidth on one port), so it works out.
I'm not particularly concerned with the "party line", as difficult as that might be for you to concieve. It's enough for me to know that anyone who has the audacity to allege that someone who votes differently for similarly named bills is an unqualified "flip-flopper" is either very naive, or a political opponent of aforementioned "someone".
The very fact that the same concept had to be voted on twice is a dead giveaway that *something* changed in the bill which Kerry found himself unwilling to vote for.
Of course, anyone spouting this line shows they have no concept of how legislative process (and politics in the US in general)works.
Let's take a hypothetical example:
I write a bill. It is good. It goes through committees and ends up with a hundred unrelated riders.
Now, my friend, he doesn't mind those 100 riders, so he votes on the initial bill. The bill doesn't get enough votes, gets sent back to committee.
In that committee, it gets reworked, a few more riders. Gets sent back to congress. It gets voted for debate (my friend votes for the debate to happen), and then in the process a few more motions get approved that tack a few more provisions on that bill.
Now, one of those provisions says that some state can take more water from the Colorado river than it already does. The Colorado river is already under huge pressure from water users, and my friend is a representative from CO. Therefore, when the bill comes up, he votes against it because he can't approve a legislative measure that would deprive his already drought-conditioned constituents of even more water.
Problem is, that bill would have provided affordable housing for 250,000 families across the country.
So, when my friend is up for election, his staff pulls the voting records, and presto! My friend is "against affordable housing for working class families". Even better, he flip-flopped on the issue, because "he voted for it before he voted against it."
And then idiots like you repeat it. This is why our political climate is like it is, because you and your ilk can't think for yourselves and just regurgitate what some website or candidate talking point says. Do us all a favor, and if you don't have anything to say that isn't just PR for one side or the other, just shut up.
Well, people can take you to court for an infinite number of reasons, with an infinite amount of legitimacy or likelihood of sucess.
Yeah, heard about ADV going nutty on bootleggers. Good for them. Tired of people coming into my friends' stores telling them about the 4 DVD set of the entire Trigun series they bought for $30 down the street.
Best friend happens to be a lawyer. They're a gray area because you're not infringing on anything if no one else is distributing. The point of something being illegally distributed is because it infringes on the legal distributor's sole exclusive contract with the producer in a certain market segment (this is why bootlegs are bad). If there's no license in that area, what exactly is being infringed? Furthermore, since legit fansubbers don't monetarily profit from their distribution, it's not exactly the same. Sure, you could easily just make a blanket statement like "it's illegal cuz it's not made by the company itself", but if the company itself doesn't actually service the area in question....
Either way, it's a moot point. About as moot as the MPAA lamenting its movie woes cuz of downloaders. The vast majority of people who watch anime either purchase or rent it, it's only we geeks and geekettes (a minority of consumers, regardless of what some industry groups or ourselves perhaps would like to admit) that worry about such legalities (well, and lawyers, but that's a given). Nor are distributors really racing to stomp out fansubs (as your own merchandise piracy link even points out). Bootleggers, yes. Fansubbers, nah.
(And fansubs don't count folks, they are illegal, don't support the creators [...])
Unlicensed fansubs are a rather grey area, not specifically illegal, but not specifically legal either. By and large the reputable fansub groups pull their fansubs when an anime is licensed (or released, depends on the group) in the states, their motivation for being fansubbers being, by and large, to make shows that aren't (and sometimes won't be) available in the US, available.
Bootleggers are another story, but don't confuse the two, because they are not necessarily (though doubtless sometimes are) the same thing.
Not to mention that an increasing majority of anime projects are being colored and/or animated on computers these days, from all the major studios. The people who rip on new anime because its not hand-drawn just want to feel like they knew/saw something first, in my opinion. It's not like Voltron or Transformers had brilliant animation, after all.
I don't really understand how that works (and am curious because I've been trying to figure out how to do it). As far as I know, the requirements for getting into grad school for Engineering are vastly different than what you would typically pile up as coursework and experience with Middle East Studies. How did you manage to get accepted to a MA in Engineering degree program with "well, I don't have the requirements *yet*, but let me in and I'll get'em!"
Seriously, I want to know. I've been trying to figure out what I can and can't get into for grad school programs.
I think this happens with a lot of "con-going" folks. It's certainly happened with a lot of the long-lived anime conventions. What used to be about a (in the US) esoteric animation format and a forum to trade hard-to-find things and meet people with your same interest (and of course, geek out in a group) turned into Pokefest with more kneebiters than nihonjin. So, most of the original attendees have dropped out.
Probably a standard thing in subcultures that start going mainstream, I imagine.
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I think you mean "No distance, no work", since if you have W=f/d and f > 0 and d = 0, then you still obviously have measurable f, but nothing for W (technically undefined, but hey).
Hmmm. Slightly anal, are we? Instead of arguing semantics, perhaps you should go with the original intent of the poster, that being that it was the most fun he had with a space sim/game/burger/whatever. I bet that people abruptly end conversations with you on a regular basis once you begin "clarifying" their vocabulary for them, don't they.
He didn't say he made 50k a year, he said he paid 50k a year in taxes. slightly different.
Believe it or not, the install worked better out of the box than installing XP Pro and using their shrinkwrapped driver CDs.
As far as I can tell, everything was detected automatically. I haven't played with it much yet, but nothing leaps out as broken or non-functional.
And for us techno-types, that's pretty nice.
There's some debate on this. Another school of thought (which I believe is more believable) says that Solo ws trying to impress what he thought of as "country bumpkins" of a sort. So making grandiose statements about how good a pilot he was didn't necessarily have to make sense, so long as they SOUNDED impressive. Besides, "12 parsecs" is 43 light years. Not exactly daring ;)
Please. It's a small measure of self-control to ignore something that "flickers". Now, if it was overwhelmingly bright, you might be on to something.
That's what I would do, anyway. No doubt the stores have contractual arrangements with the product distributors/marketers that oblige them to run the ads in a certain fashion and in a certain location.
Cocky assholes like yourself need a little whipping now and then to keep you in line. There's always going to be more customers. Any spine possessing manager should have you out on your ear.
Wow... you know, there was another creative invention that was enabled by copyrights. They're called "downers". I think you need to look into getting some and consuming them on a regular basis.
At the current time, unfortunately, this is indeed the case.
I'm kinda wondering how you "strictly adhere" to Taoism anyway....
Apparently, according to the Chinese Red Cross the number of deaths was around 2600, but the *injuries* could have ranged up to and around 10k. (see el wikipedia article for example).
I'm interested to hear where you're getting the information that the Chinese gov't regularly butchers farmers. I mean, they're no saints to be sure, but regular massacres? that requires some pretty hefty proof there, buddy.
I wish I had your luck. My HP Pavillion 4125 when I first bought it had bad pixels, so exchanged it. About 5 months into it the left mouse button started acting funny, but I used a mouse so I kept forgetting to get it serviced under warranty. Then the battery failed (amusing thing about that model, when the power subsystem tried to get the status on the battery, it would miss user input interrupts... confused the hell out of me why when it was on AC that it acted weird. once I pulled out the battery it worked great, though). Finally, the mainboard died about a month after it was out of warranty. And the worst of it all? Never could get linux to run reliably on it (almost always got a kernel panic on the PCMCIA chipset or just a hang) Apple for me this time around, I think (or one of those slick Dell D600 mini things)
This is usually a matter of students bringing their lovely cable modem setups from home, then plugging them in wrong at school and kindly giving out 192.168.x.x leases to their neighbors. Restricting routers solves that problem for the non-technically literate, and the technically literate are more or less transparent to the IT support folks anyway (unless doing something stupid like using a ton of bandwidth on one port), so it works out.
I'm not particularly concerned with the "party line", as difficult as that might be for you to concieve. It's enough for me to know that anyone who has the audacity to allege that someone who votes differently for similarly named bills is an unqualified "flip-flopper" is either very naive, or a political opponent of aforementioned "someone".
The very fact that the same concept had to be voted on twice is a dead giveaway that *something* changed in the bill which Kerry found himself unwilling to vote for.
Of course, anyone spouting this line shows they have no concept of how legislative process (and politics in the US in general)works.
Let's take a hypothetical example:
I write a bill. It is good. It goes through committees and ends up with a hundred unrelated riders.
Now, my friend, he doesn't mind those 100 riders, so he votes on the initial bill. The bill doesn't get enough votes, gets sent back to committee.
In that committee, it gets reworked, a few more riders. Gets sent back to congress. It gets voted for debate (my friend votes for the debate to happen), and then in the process a few more motions get approved that tack a few more provisions on that bill.
Now, one of those provisions says that some state can take more water from the Colorado river than it already does. The Colorado river is already under huge pressure from water users, and my friend is a representative from CO. Therefore, when the bill comes up, he votes against it because he can't approve a legislative measure that would deprive his already drought-conditioned constituents of even more water.
Problem is, that bill would have provided affordable housing for 250,000 families across the country.
So, when my friend is up for election, his staff pulls the voting records, and presto! My friend is "against affordable housing for working class families". Even better, he flip-flopped on the issue, because "he voted for it before he voted against it."
And then idiots like you repeat it. This is why our political climate is like it is, because you and your ilk can't think for yourselves and just regurgitate what some website or candidate talking point says. Do us all a favor, and if you don't have anything to say that isn't just PR for one side or the other, just shut up.
I wonder what the linguistic/speech pattern is that prevents people from being able to say two "p"s in the same word.
Well, people can take you to court for an infinite number of reasons, with an infinite amount of legitimacy or likelihood of sucess. Yeah, heard about ADV going nutty on bootleggers. Good for them. Tired of people coming into my friends' stores telling them about the 4 DVD set of the entire Trigun series they bought for $30 down the street.
Best friend happens to be a lawyer. They're a gray area because you're not infringing on anything if no one else is distributing. The point of something being illegally distributed is because it infringes on the legal distributor's sole exclusive contract with the producer in a certain market segment (this is why bootlegs are bad). If there's no license in that area, what exactly is being infringed? Furthermore, since legit fansubbers don't monetarily profit from their distribution, it's not exactly the same. Sure, you could easily just make a blanket statement like "it's illegal cuz it's not made by the company itself", but if the company itself doesn't actually service the area in question....
Either way, it's a moot point. About as moot as the MPAA lamenting its movie woes cuz of downloaders. The vast majority of people who watch anime either purchase or rent it, it's only we geeks and geekettes (a minority of consumers, regardless of what some industry groups or ourselves perhaps would like to admit) that worry about such legalities (well, and lawyers, but that's a given). Nor are distributors really racing to stomp out fansubs (as your own merchandise piracy link even points out). Bootleggers, yes. Fansubbers, nah.
Unlicensed fansubs are a rather grey area, not specifically illegal, but not specifically legal either. By and large the reputable fansub groups pull their fansubs when an anime is licensed (or released, depends on the group) in the states, their motivation for being fansubbers being, by and large, to make shows that aren't (and sometimes won't be) available in the US, available.
Bootleggers are another story, but don't confuse the two, because they are not necessarily (though doubtless sometimes are) the same thing.
Not to mention that an increasing majority of anime projects are being colored and/or animated on computers these days, from all the major studios. The people who rip on new anime because its not hand-drawn just want to feel like they knew/saw something first, in my opinion. It's not like Voltron or Transformers had brilliant animation, after all.
I dunno, from what I remember of Trigun (never watched it on AS), it was pretty entertaining. I didn't think it was anything like DBZ
man... I thought I was the only one who had ever seen that POS... no one else ever recognized it when I mentioned the name
Very interesting. Thanks. =)
Seriously, I want to know. I've been trying to figure out what I can and can't get into for grad school programs.
Probably a standard thing in subcultures that start going mainstream, I imagine.