It was. Incidentally, there really is an ice IX, but it's not the lowest-energy state that the book's ice IX would have to be for it to act like it did.
Civil war, clusterfuck, death squad v. death squad, it doesn't matter what you call it. No one is disputing that a bunch of civilians/paramilitaries are killing each other in Iraq right now, largely separated along religious/ethnic lines. Sorry you spent so long waiting to bring out those poll numbers, but they don't really mean much. The facts stand on their own, regardless of what they're called.
If I could play a game of Russian roulette with a million-round-chamber* with one bullet to win back the freedoms this administration has taken away, you bet your ass I'd do it. You should be ashamed if you wouldn't.
*Bush's policies are likely to lead to more loss of life due to terrorism rather than less, so that million-to-one should really be negative anyhow.
I'll concede that point, that the maximum turn speed is more realistic. Even so, something like the wiimote is probably a much friendlier implementation of that (disclaimer: I haven't yet played a FPS with a wiimote).
The idea of perfect (or best-possible, anyway) controls is that you give everyone better potential to be good thus raise the level of gameplay. If there are a very very select few that can headshot you every time, well, Annie Oakley could probably have done it in real life, so there's your realism. Crippling players and steepening the learning curve with bad controls really doesn't make the game more fun, imho, and that's what it's really about in the end.
You sound like a paid Verizon shill to me. I'll have to administer "the test".
You have 1 dollar. I offer you 1000 increments of 0.002 cents each to you in exchance for your dollar. Is it economically advantageous to you to take my offer?
"So easy there's very little aiming skill involved. It doest feel like aiming a weapon"
Please, and the thumbstick does? Not sure what sort of weapons you're used to. I mean really, if you want to go that route lets all control games by strapping Wii-like remotes to our cocks. Now _that_ takes skill!
I think people who oppose copyright fall more into two categories:
1) People who just don't want to have to pay for software/music/movie, i.e. leeches. These people would probably whine loudly if most of the content went away because no one was paying for it. Others may be willing to put up with the resulting economics of this, which would be the fall of any industry relying on copyrights. They may prefer this to the current state of affairs.
2) People who are so used to copyright being abused as a matter of course by large soulless corporations that they're reaction is an overreaction compared to what it would be if copyright abuse weren't so widespread. I think if copyright abuse weren't so abused these days there would be far fewer people opposed to a reasonable copyright. Again, some or most of these people would probably prefer the consequences of large content-producing industries dying from lack of copyright, or think they would.
Personally, I think a max of 10-15 years from date of publication would be fine in terms of copyright. Plenty of moneymaking opportunity there but still an incentive to produce new works rather than just live off the fruits of your earlier labors.
Well there's their problem, right there. The bullets aren't made of silver! Oh, were that the silver lobby were more powerful, then we would be winning the war.
You're assuming this war has "winners". We're losing our money, our dignity (actually, we've lost that already), the shreds of respect other peoples may have for us and our soldiers/military capability. The Iraqis are losing their stability and what peace they had before, their lives (by the thousands), and their prospects for economic prosperity. The Afghanis are probably coming out of this the best, but they're losing people too, and many more may be lost to terrorist cells to fight us.
Lets see what's being won. US: A reputation for being belligerent assholes. Maybe some corporations that are only minimally affiliated with us are making tons of cash, but that comes out of our pockets, so that should be counted under loss. The only really valuable thing we've gained is the knowledge that nation-building don't work so well, but of course anyone with half a brain already knew that. Iraqis: They're pretty fucked. Afghanis: They're having bumper crops of poppies again, so that they can again become the world's premier supplier of opium. I'm sure we'll all benefit from that.
"Right because k increases linearly with weight but with the square of speed. Therefore a heavier bullet packs more energy than a fast one?"
Drag also increases with the square of speed. Therefore density is key, since a high mass/size ratio ensures the bullet will fly farther and straighter. The point isn't to make a massive bullet, it's to make a small fast one with enough inertia to go straight (well, parabolic).
That's true, but nowadays there are so many little Japanese cars on the street that it would be silly to call all those people ricers. The term has come to mean what GP said, and not even necessarily Japanese cars anymore.
Well the idea I was going for is that biofuels, in theory, store energy from the sun rather than fossil fuels, thereby giving us a source that's less likely to run out.
Perhaps it's the fact that hydrogen is merely a means of storing energy, not producing it, and so is useless to us without a huge ramp up in nuclear fission or fusion energy?
Kills his sister's lover? She didn't have one, as I recall. He killed Brodda, the easterling who forcibly married Aerin (his kinswoman) and he kills Brandir after his sister dies, but she didn't have a lover besides him.
Wow, that looks like a really promising program. Kind of sucks that it got cancelled. I wonder if any private companies would be willing to pick it up; if they could buy a bunch of cheap land in the southwest and start producing biodiesel it could make them a mint, something like 40 million dollars worth of biodiesel per year per square mile of ponds.
"Then-Senator John Ashcroft was a leading opponent of the Clipper chip proposal, arguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software."
Now there's an interesting little tidbit. I wouldn't have expected that from him. Unless wikipedia is wrong on that one.
While I agree completely with you and Hawking that we need to start spreading out to other bodies, I don't think trying to start now will accomplish much. Certainly we're not going to be burning dinosaur remains on Mars, so developing real renewable power technology and infrastructure would be a good start. Once we don't have to worry about running out of oil/natural gas we can start using our shiny new (did I mention cheap and abundant?) power to figure out how to set up colonies elsewhere.
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It was. Incidentally, there really is an ice IX, but it's not the lowest-energy state that the book's ice IX would have to be for it to act like it did.
Civil war, clusterfuck, death squad v. death squad, it doesn't matter what you call it. No one is disputing that a bunch of civilians/paramilitaries are killing each other in Iraq right now, largely separated along religious/ethnic lines. Sorry you spent so long waiting to bring out those poll numbers, but they don't really mean much. The facts stand on their own, regardless of what they're called.
If I could play a game of Russian roulette with a million-round-chamber* with one bullet to win back the freedoms this administration has taken away, you bet your ass I'd do it. You should be ashamed if you wouldn't.
*Bush's policies are likely to lead to more loss of life due to terrorism rather than less, so that million-to-one should really be negative anyhow.
I'll concede that point, that the maximum turn speed is more realistic. Even so, something like the wiimote is probably a much friendlier implementation of that (disclaimer: I haven't yet played a FPS with a wiimote).
The idea of perfect (or best-possible, anyway) controls is that you give everyone better potential to be good thus raise the level of gameplay. If there are a very very select few that can headshot you every time, well, Annie Oakley could probably have done it in real life, so there's your realism. Crippling players and steepening the learning curve with bad controls really doesn't make the game more fun, imho, and that's what it's really about in the end.
You sound like a paid Verizon shill to me. I'll have to administer "the test".
You have 1 dollar. I offer you 1000 increments of 0.002 cents each to you in exchance for your dollar. Is it economically advantageous to you to take my offer?
"So easy there's very little aiming skill involved. It doest feel like aiming a weapon"
Please, and the thumbstick does? Not sure what sort of weapons you're used to. I mean really, if you want to go that route lets all control games by strapping Wii-like remotes to our cocks. Now _that_ takes skill!
Inferior controls do nothing but piss people off.
I think people who oppose copyright fall more into two categories:
1) People who just don't want to have to pay for software/music/movie, i.e. leeches. These people would probably whine loudly if most of the content went away because no one was paying for it. Others may be willing to put up with the resulting economics of this, which would be the fall of any industry relying on copyrights. They may prefer this to the current state of affairs.
2) People who are so used to copyright being abused as a matter of course by large soulless corporations that they're reaction is an overreaction compared to what it would be if copyright abuse weren't so widespread. I think if copyright abuse weren't so abused these days there would be far fewer people opposed to a reasonable copyright. Again, some or most of these people would probably prefer the consequences of large content-producing industries dying from lack of copyright, or think they would.
Personally, I think a max of 10-15 years from date of publication would be fine in terms of copyright. Plenty of moneymaking opportunity there but still an incentive to produce new works rather than just live off the fruits of your earlier labors.
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Well there's their problem, right there. The bullets aren't made of silver! Oh, were that the silver lobby were more powerful, then we would be winning the war.
You're assuming this war has "winners". We're losing our money, our dignity (actually, we've lost that already), the shreds of respect other peoples may have for us and our soldiers/military capability. The Iraqis are losing their stability and what peace they had before, their lives (by the thousands), and their prospects for economic prosperity. The Afghanis are probably coming out of this the best, but they're losing people too, and many more may be lost to terrorist cells to fight us.
Lets see what's being won. US: A reputation for being belligerent assholes. Maybe some corporations that are only minimally affiliated with us are making tons of cash, but that comes out of our pockets, so that should be counted under loss. The only really valuable thing we've gained is the knowledge that nation-building don't work so well, but of course anyone with half a brain already knew that. Iraqis: They're pretty fucked. Afghanis: They're having bumper crops of poppies again, so that they can again become the world's premier supplier of opium. I'm sure we'll all benefit from that.
In conclusion, wars of aggression are bad, mkay?
"Right because k increases linearly with weight but with the square of speed. Therefore a heavier bullet packs more energy than a fast one?"
Drag also increases with the square of speed. Therefore density is key, since a high mass/size ratio ensures the bullet will fly farther and straighter. The point isn't to make a massive bullet, it's to make a small fast one with enough inertia to go straight (well, parabolic).
No, latin for black is nig(er, ra, rum). You're thinking Spanish.
That's true, but nowadays there are so many little Japanese cars on the street that it would be silly to call all those people ricers. The term has come to mean what GP said, and not even necessarily Japanese cars anymore.
Well the idea I was going for is that biofuels, in theory, store energy from the sun rather than fossil fuels, thereby giving us a source that's less likely to run out.
Perhaps it's the fact that hydrogen is merely a means of storing energy, not producing it, and so is useless to us without a huge ramp up in nuclear fission or fusion energy?
Kills his sister's lover? She didn't have one, as I recall. He killed Brodda, the easterling who forcibly married Aerin (his kinswoman) and he kills Brandir after his sister dies, but she didn't have a lover besides him.
Wow, that looks like a really promising program. Kind of sucks that it got cancelled. I wonder if any private companies would be willing to pick it up; if they could buy a bunch of cheap land in the southwest and start producing biodiesel it could make them a mint, something like 40 million dollars worth of biodiesel per year per square mile of ponds.
I've heard about this study with the algae-produced biodiesel before. Any chance you have a source so I can read more about it?
I think you're wife is spot on with that theory.
In an unrelated note, my car is approximately 4 feet high and weighs only 2200 pounds...
Rum.
It appears to have a thin crunchy shell of rock on the outside with a core composed primarily of rich dark matter.
From the Wiki article:
"Then-Senator John Ashcroft was a leading opponent of the Clipper chip proposal, arguing in favor of the individual's right to encrypt messages and export encryption software."
Now there's an interesting little tidbit. I wouldn't have expected that from him. Unless wikipedia is wrong on that one.
Whoosh.
There have been laws passed (or maybe just bills proposed; don't remember) in 2 states defining pi = 4 and pi = 3.2, respectively.
While I agree completely with you and Hawking that we need to start spreading out to other bodies, I don't think trying to start now will accomplish much. Certainly we're not going to be burning dinosaur remains on Mars, so developing real renewable power technology and infrastructure would be a good start. Once we don't have to worry about running out of oil/natural gas we can start using our shiny new (did I mention cheap and abundant?) power to figure out how to set up colonies elsewhere.