Why would you want to detect counterfeit coins/bills anyways? So long as the next person takes them it doesn't really matter. Yes, if we get trillions of counterfeit notes and coins it might start being a problem, but if I can exchange a fake $100 bill for $100 worth in merchandise, it isn't to my advantage to even care if they are real or not.
True enough. In the same vein - why would you want to stop a rape, anyway? So long as you get to go next, then it doesn't really matter. Yeah, if you get trillions of guys waiting in line it might be a problem, but otherwise it isn't to your advantage to care whether it's illegal or not.
The NSA has Alien Technology from Area 51, and you think they're bothering with silly little SSL man-in-the-middle exploits? Pft. Please leave your tinfoil hat at the door, on your way out.
1. Comparing comics from the 40's to ones from the 60's is dishonest. 2. It's silly to get offended by stereotypes created that long ago. 3. The controversy you link to isn't regarding the 1960's comics, but rather the celebration of those comics in 2005. You'd get the same response if the US suddenly started printing stamps featuring Popeye knocking out some Japs.
In closing, you sir are either intentionally dishonest or a complete twit. If you would let me know which of those categories you fall into, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
A former American ally that received weapons of mass destruction from the United States. Ah, the sweet smell of nerve gas in the morning.
That is, of course, a complete lie. The second sentence, specifically, is an outright fabrication since the US never shipped nerve-gas to Iraq. The first sentence is at least based in fact, even if it does completely misrepresent the situation. Specifically, various Iraqi organizations did obtain small batches of various biological and chemical agents from the US. However, a batch of viruses or a load of pesticides is not a "weapon of mass destruction" any more than a lump of iron is an aircraft carrier.
I wonder how it would have went if Stalin had struck first, while Hitler's armies were mostly busy in France and Africa.
Half of his army would have starved to death before even coming under contact? Russian logistics were horrid. They took massive numbers of casualties while operating on their soil, in a familiar environment, in a primarily defensive role. If they had attempted to go on the attack, the Germans would have massacred them.
I'm afraid your analysis misses the point. It was never Hitler's intention to conquer Western Europe or the Mediterranean. It was always his intention to try and conquer land in the East. His actions in Western Europe were holding actions intended at preventing Germany from having to fight a two-front war.
That makes no sense. You don't avoid a two-front war by attacking nations on opposite sides of you.
I really doubt there would NOT be any problems to release a game where you're an Iraqi fighting against the invading your country by American soldiers, trying to protect your country from the "bad".
There have been several similar games created in the past. Iran's "Rescue the Nuke Scientists" (yeah, shitty title) is one example. There have also been movies which paint American troops as evil rapists/murderers/baby-eaters. None of them have ever been banned in the US. You won't find them in your local Walmart because they don't have any market appeal, but you can track down rare copies in specialty stores, and you can buy them online. If you really think that the US would or could pull a product like that, then you don't understand anything about how the American government is structured.
To give some extra perspective to the game, the American soldiers could be raping your families and completely destroying your country (interestingly that's not even made up story, as it's real [bbc.co.uk]).
Well, if you really wanted to maintain realism, you'd then have to have the soldiers being rounded up by the MP's, put in front of a military tribunal, and sentenced to 90 years in prison. Somehow I get the feeling that you'd like that part left out, though.
Or where you would be designing terrorist attacks against USA. Do you really think that would be allowed?
I know that would "be allowed". Seriously, take the time to familiarize yourself with US law. ESPECIALLY if you're a US citizen.
But there's no need to think what would happen. It would be banned for obscene material and the creators sent to jail, like in earlier case
That's a complete non-sequitur. Unless your hypothetical video game features sexually explicit material, there's no chance in hell of such charges ever being brought. Take out that scene of Obama Bin Laden having a romantic liaison with a goat, and you've got nothing to worry about. Even if you included some pornographic material, chances are you'd have nothing to worry about since the majority of sexual acts would pass the Miller Test. And, in the unlikely scenario that your game DOES fail the miller test, you can always challenge the constitutionality of obscenity laws - something which Extreme Associates was in the process of doing (and had a lot of luck with) until they, for some weird reason, decided to plead guilty. The case against them had already been thrown out once.
It depends - if you assume that Americans are a bunch of unreliable, untrustworthy bastards, then yeah, China is getting the short end of the stick. On the other hand, China quite clearly isn't making that assumption.
The airburst would unleash about 130 tons on TNT [arizona.edu], about 10 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
What and the who now? Little Boy was 13+ KILO tons. That's 1,300 tons. That puts your asteroid impact at one third the blast, meaning you're off by a factor of 100.
If we know we're tracking 90% of NEOs, why not the other 10%? Isn't it more likely that number was just made up to give a false sense of security?
OMG, CONSPIRAZY!!!1!1!!ELEVEN!!
You don't get your search-for-planet-smashers budget increased by underestimating the number of objects out there - if NASA were going to start pulling figures out of their collective asses, they'd overestimate. Luckily, though, we have this thing called "science" which means that such estimates are generally derived using the best available data, and the results are published so that others can review the methodology and confirm or challenge the results. The estimates which NASA uses are well known, and I've yet to see any astronomers raise an objection to them.
I know you think you're funny, but Coeliac disease and wheat related allergies are pretty serious things.
And have nothing to do with weight gain.
What is so wrong about stating a solution he found, and then suggesting someone else attempt the solution if they exhibit similar symptoms?
Oh I don't know.... how about the fact that every quack out there does the same thing? How do you think this anti-vaccine lunacy got started? An asshole by the name of Andrew Wakefield "simply stated a solution he found", and diseases which we had defeated suddenly became endemic and people died as a result. As long as people keep repeating ignorant beliefs which are only grounded in simplistic correlation and anecdotes, we're going to keep wasting billions of dollars propping up the "alternative healthcare" industry, and people are going to keep dying from curable conditions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the fact that the earth "bulges" at the equator mean you'd weigh even less due to your increased distance (21km's - ish) from the center of the earth?
It depends on your definition of "fully automated". None of them (AFAIK) can actually release their weapons without human authorization. That's the main reason they still have human "pilots".
That's the minimum standard of functionality. That's what I had, the burden isn't on me to make their stuff work to at least 1980s tech levels, and the customer is always right.
No, the customers are always right. You, as an individual customer, are more of a nuisance than an asset. Call them for support some time, and you'll see just how much they care about you.
The sad fact is that most people will happily continue to shell out more and more money for the honour of having their service further and further restricted. Worse yet, the cable/satellite companies are fully aware of this, and are more than happy to take advantage of it. Their attitudes won't change without a mass movement involving the majority of the public (and no, not just a 1 hour boycott which gets abandoned as soon as the new Survivor episode airs). If you think that you can organize such a boycott, I'll gladly sign up since I've already abandoned TV. On the other hand, I can pretty much guarantee that you'll fail miserably.
The stuff that western civilisation pushed on us under the label food, is often highly processed, devoid of useful nutrients, and stuffed with harmful chemicals and empty calories.
Right. And vaccines cause autism. Would you like some more purple coolaid?
Yeah, and this one time, I had some wheat and then immediately had a headache. I stopped eating wheat and the headache went away! I told my friends about it, and they reported the same results! Truly, wheat-reduced diets are a modern-day miracle; one I plan to study in detail. I'm currently researching the link between wheat and erectile dysfunction - would you be interested in becoming a test-subject?
Yeah, we're going in circles now. Look, it's great that you do all these wonderful things and take pride in your work. I'm very happy for you. On the other hand, you're an egotistical twat if you think you can summarily dismiss an entire branch of science just because you disagree with (or don't understand) their methodology. You're welcome to lay out some ideas as to how the forensic sciences may be improved, and I'll be happy to review them, but otherwise we have nothing to discuss.
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Why would you want to detect counterfeit coins/bills anyways? So long as the next person takes them it doesn't really matter. Yes, if we get trillions of counterfeit notes and coins it might start being a problem, but if I can exchange a fake $100 bill for $100 worth in merchandise, it isn't to my advantage to even care if they are real or not.
True enough. In the same vein - why would you want to stop a rape, anyway? So long as you get to go next, then it doesn't really matter. Yeah, if you get trillions of guys waiting in line it might be a problem, but otherwise it isn't to your advantage to care whether it's illegal or not.
The NSA has Alien Technology from Area 51, and you think they're bothering with silly little SSL man-in-the-middle exploits? Pft. Please leave your tinfoil hat at the door, on your way out.
Ok, so that would be the latter one, then?
1. Comparing comics from the 40's to ones from the 60's is dishonest.
2. It's silly to get offended by stereotypes created that long ago.
3. The controversy you link to isn't regarding the 1960's comics, but rather the celebration of those comics in 2005. You'd get the same response if the US suddenly started printing stamps featuring Popeye knocking out some Japs.
In closing, you sir are either intentionally dishonest or a complete twit. If you would let me know which of those categories you fall into, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
I doubt you would think it would be acceptable to kill people who tarnish the image of Colombia through words, or to imprison them...
I dunno, he did say he was a drug dealer, and you know what they are like ....
A former American ally that received weapons of mass destruction from the United States. Ah, the sweet smell of nerve gas in the morning.
That is, of course, a complete lie. The second sentence, specifically, is an outright fabrication since the US never shipped nerve-gas to Iraq. The first sentence is at least based in fact, even if it does completely misrepresent the situation. Specifically, various Iraqi organizations did obtain small batches of various biological and chemical agents from the US. However, a batch of viruses or a load of pesticides is not a "weapon of mass destruction" any more than a lump of iron is an aircraft carrier.
I wonder how it would have went if Stalin had struck first, while Hitler's armies were mostly busy in France and Africa.
Half of his army would have starved to death before even coming under contact? Russian logistics were horrid. They took massive numbers of casualties while operating on their soil, in a familiar environment, in a primarily defensive role. If they had attempted to go on the attack, the Germans would have massacred them.
I'm afraid your analysis misses the point. It was never Hitler's intention to conquer Western Europe or the Mediterranean. It was always his intention to try and conquer land in the East. His actions in Western Europe were holding actions intended at preventing Germany from having to fight a two-front war.
That makes no sense. You don't avoid a two-front war by attacking nations on opposite sides of you.
Does it matter that Stalin was, in fact, not Russian? Just askin'...
It matters just about as much as the fact that Hitler wasn't German.
I really doubt there would NOT be any problems to release a game where you're an Iraqi fighting against the invading your country by American soldiers, trying to protect your country from the "bad".
There have been several similar games created in the past. Iran's "Rescue the Nuke Scientists" (yeah, shitty title) is one example. There have also been movies which paint American troops as evil rapists/murderers/baby-eaters. None of them have ever been banned in the US. You won't find them in your local Walmart because they don't have any market appeal, but you can track down rare copies in specialty stores, and you can buy them online. If you really think that the US would or could pull a product like that, then you don't understand anything about how the American government is structured.
To give some extra perspective to the game, the American soldiers could be raping your families and completely destroying your country (interestingly that's not even made up story, as it's real [bbc.co.uk]).
Well, if you really wanted to maintain realism, you'd then have to have the soldiers being rounded up by the MP's, put in front of a military tribunal, and sentenced to 90 years in prison. Somehow I get the feeling that you'd like that part left out, though.
Or where you would be designing terrorist attacks against USA. Do you really think that would be allowed?
I know that would "be allowed". Seriously, take the time to familiarize yourself with US law. ESPECIALLY if you're a US citizen.
But there's no need to think what would happen. It would be banned for obscene material and the creators sent to jail, like in earlier case
That's a complete non-sequitur. Unless your hypothetical video game features sexually explicit material, there's no chance in hell of such charges ever being brought. Take out that scene of Obama Bin Laden having a romantic liaison with a goat, and you've got nothing to worry about. Even if you included some pornographic material, chances are you'd have nothing to worry about since the majority of sexual acts would pass the Miller Test. And, in the unlikely scenario that your game DOES fail the miller test, you can always challenge the constitutionality of obscenity laws - something which Extreme Associates was in the process of doing (and had a lot of luck with) until they, for some weird reason, decided to plead guilty. The case against them had already been thrown out once.
Who's getting the worst of the deal here?
It depends - if you assume that Americans are a bunch of unreliable, untrustworthy bastards, then yeah, China is getting the short end of the stick. On the other hand, China quite clearly isn't making that assumption.
Huh?
Did you use Babelfish to translate that from Swahili?
Er, scratch out "one third" and put in "one tenth". And, admins, add a friggin "edit" function already.
The airburst would unleash about 130 tons on TNT [arizona.edu], about 10 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
What and the who now? Little Boy was 13+ KILO tons. That's 1,300 tons. That puts your asteroid impact at one third the blast, meaning you're off by a factor of 100.
If we know we're tracking 90% of NEOs, why not the other 10%? Isn't it more likely that number was just made up to give a false sense of security?
OMG, CONSPIRAZY!!!1!1!!ELEVEN!!
You don't get your search-for-planet-smashers budget increased by underestimating the number of objects out there - if NASA were going to start pulling figures out of their collective asses, they'd overestimate. Luckily, though, we have this thing called "science" which means that such estimates are generally derived using the best available data, and the results are published so that others can review the methodology and confirm or challenge the results. The estimates which NASA uses are well known, and I've yet to see any astronomers raise an objection to them.
Easy there, Superman. I know you're hard up for publicity these days, but we didn't really need you to stop this one.
I know you think you're funny, but Coeliac disease and wheat related allergies are pretty serious things.
And have nothing to do with weight gain.
What is so wrong about stating a solution he found, and then suggesting someone else attempt the solution if they exhibit similar symptoms?
Oh I don't know .... how about the fact that every quack out there does the same thing? How do you think this anti-vaccine lunacy got started? An asshole by the name of Andrew Wakefield "simply stated a solution he found", and diseases which we had defeated suddenly became endemic and people died as a result. As long as people keep repeating ignorant beliefs which are only grounded in simplistic correlation and anecdotes, we're going to keep wasting billions of dollars propping up the "alternative healthcare" industry, and people are going to keep dying from curable conditions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the fact that the earth "bulges" at the equator mean you'd weigh even less due to your increased distance (21km's - ish) from the center of the earth?
Drop the "in" on "incompatible", and you'll have it exactly right.
It depends on your definition of "fully automated". None of them (AFAIK) can actually release their weapons without human authorization. That's the main reason they still have human "pilots".
That's the minimum standard of functionality. That's what I had, the burden isn't on me to make their stuff work to at least 1980s tech levels, and the customer is always right.
No, the customers are always right. You, as an individual customer, are more of a nuisance than an asset. Call them for support some time, and you'll see just how much they care about you.
The sad fact is that most people will happily continue to shell out more and more money for the honour of having their service further and further restricted. Worse yet, the cable/satellite companies are fully aware of this, and are more than happy to take advantage of it. Their attitudes won't change without a mass movement involving the majority of the public (and no, not just a 1 hour boycott which gets abandoned as soon as the new Survivor episode airs). If you think that you can organize such a boycott, I'll gladly sign up since I've already abandoned TV. On the other hand, I can pretty much guarantee that you'll fail miserably.
The stuff that western civilisation pushed on us under the label food, is often highly processed, devoid of useful nutrients, and stuffed with harmful chemicals and empty calories.
Right. And vaccines cause autism. Would you like some more purple coolaid?
You lost 12 pounds in a week?? Are you sure you didn't give birth?
Yeah, and this one time, I had some wheat and then immediately had a headache. I stopped eating wheat and the headache went away! I told my friends about it, and they reported the same results! Truly, wheat-reduced diets are a modern-day miracle; one I plan to study in detail. I'm currently researching the link between wheat and erectile dysfunction - would you be interested in becoming a test-subject?
Yeah, we're going in circles now. Look, it's great that you do all these wonderful things and take pride in your work. I'm very happy for you. On the other hand, you're an egotistical twat if you think you can summarily dismiss an entire branch of science just because you disagree with (or don't understand) their methodology. You're welcome to lay out some ideas as to how the forensic sciences may be improved, and I'll be happy to review them, but otherwise we have nothing to discuss.