Except that they have other routes to try for their economy. We need China more then China needs us, in every field.
"how do you figure that? The US has GOBs of cash we could spend on lots of worthless crap. Hell, the US economy bearly registers a hickup funding the Iraq war and the HUGE disaster that hit the US gulf coast and all that that caused."
Of course! That's why gas is so cheap! Go into the military and just try to get the necessary money for critical supplies now. Or check out the rapid progress of rebuilding in the Gulf Coast . As for Iraq, our grandkids and great-grandkids will be paying off that debt. If the economy hasn't been hit by it yet, it's because our government keeps borrowing its GOBS of cash. It's the equivalent of going to check-cashing places at taking out a whole bunch of short-term loans because fuck it, you'll be out of office anyway by the time they are due. http://southwestfarmpress.com/news/06-05-09-defici t-China-Hu/
That faery handbag story is pretty good so far. Bit simplified for my like but no problem. Reads like it would translate well to a Neil Gaiman graphic novel published by Vertigo. I could easily see it as a stand-alone or as a story in Sandman.
State legislators in Illinois and California and other states are getting the ball rolling on it, regardless of the fear and cowardice of national-level Democratic party leaders who don't want to do their FUCKING JOBS.
It basically means that we can't do anything they don't like, or they can fuck our economy, or at the very least turn off the money, and we won't find another country to borrow money from. The dumbass war in Iraq has drained us entirely of money. Without Chinese money we don't have the funds for another war in the Middle East, and we won't have Chinese money if we want to start another war in the Middle East. See the trouble?
1. Anything they can't make they can buy from Russia or China, and Iran is industrialized enough to make a lot.
2. China is not going to turn off their oil supply. Russia is not going to turn off their nuclear technology market. We don't have the capability to make China or Russia comply, especially since we are in debt to China for 250 billion dollars. We can put sanctions on Iran, giving them further justification to thumb their nose at us, China and Russia will keep Iran more than solvent, and we'll look like damn fools.
3. Iranians fell over themselves to be a guerilla force during the Iran-Iraq Wars of the 80s. Watch how fast they remember.
Also worth noting is the fact that China is hungry for Iran's natural gas and oil, and we've backed countries in bloody wars for less. China's backed countries against us before also, ref Vietnam and Korean Conflicts. We can reasonably expect to face not only the unhappy prospect of a ground war in Iran where the entire country is willing to die to keep us out, but also military reaction from Russia and China. Iran could very easily become the spark point for WW3, and if we use a nuke on them, it will free up Russia and/or China to justifiably use nukes on us to keep us from doing it again, to say nothing of the reaction from the Iranian agents who are undoubtedly waiting on standby at targets of importance to America all over the world.
Fucking moron flag-wavers are going to get us all killed, we don't need crazy irrational fanatics on both sides to make this shitty mess any scarier then it already is.
The internet and computer usage is a fucking right of geeks. It's our heritage. We built this shit, we maintain it, and all the morons only get on here because we're running their servers, developing their software, taking their tech support calls, building their computers, fixing their computers, all that crap.
If someone gets their upgrade or computer building done right the first time, then they're one of us and are welcome to join the club. Otherwise, they can shut up, take the joke, pay us, and get back to trying to download movies from warez sites and wondering why their computer is infected with hundreds of viruses and worms.
I got my computer upgrades right the first time, and my computer building right the first time also. Fucked some shit up on an OS install a while back, but I got lucky somehow and fixed it myself. I'm proud of that shit, it's a geek right of passage to pull that stuff off right.
I found it for PS1 at a Funcoland a while back and picked it up for the hell of it, but like many of my other PS games, I haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
I've seen facilities that do that, but none that deal with angry cloned dinosaurs.
Something I've seen that's funny is at some CPS (Chemical Protective System) equipped military buildings. They're intended to survive attacks from enemy missiles loaded with deadly gases and bioweapons and stuff, and they do this by sealing up the building and creating a pressurized environment. However, the seal and the pressurization is powered by a backup generator. And the generator is outside the building, or outside the sealed area of the building. So in order to have a safe protected building, you need to go out into the contaminated environment. Whoops.
Sometimes, the computers are even green text-mode terminals, even in modern TV shows.
I still see computers like that in use every now and then. Mostly in banks and military facilities. Always kind of suprises me to see stufff so old, but they are out there.
Now as to how he'd make the logic jump from that to the countdown being "destruction of all human life", that's another thing to question - but given that most people who believe in aliens fall into two camps: A. they come in peace and B. they're out to destroy us... *shrug*
The fact that, instead of sending a delegation in search of the planet's political leaders or something like that, they had a fleet of massive ships take up stationary positions over strategically important major cities, would tend to indicate B.
Hmm, there's a large alien ship over every major human city. Maybe they bring candy!
Answer: Because it's Science Fiction. So was Wargames for that matter.
I thought ID4 was pretty cool when I was in my early teens. Course, then I grew up. Now I just like seeing the cities blow up, and hearing the BBC announcer say "It is clearing the mountains, moving too slowly to be a comet, or meteor"
They mentioned that in the movie, IIRC he got in through some contracting company or something in the same area code as the game company, that still had a connection open to WOPR because of an oversight. And as someone in the military, I do know that accidental glaring oversights happen all the time. Love the "...whoops" moments.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
One of the ways I've heard the voice synth explained is that it was pretty likely that both Matthew Broderick's character and the government bought the voice synth equipment from the same place. Much like how the Windows male voice synth voice is the same on all computers. Just something I heard tossed up somewhere.
In my defense, I haven't slept in 30 hours (don't ask). But yes, Joshua was the WOPR.
Don't know where the frig I got Jason from. The worse part is I wrote that after reading the article where they mention Joshua (as an unlikely password).
I suck.
But I really do have Wargames on DVD and a Wargames poster in my computer room and a Wargames desktop background.
Regardless of how probable or improbable Wargames may have been, it was and will likely remain one of my favorite "nerd" movies. I don't think I could ever get tired of it. The chick's hot too.
Jason had some of the best lines, even if they did sound like they were delivered by a Speak N Say. Perhaps because of it. Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
think how nice it'd be to have a smartcard reader on your computer
and just use your normal id-card (with a pincode) to logon
Incidentally, that's exactly what the US Air Force does. I like it because I don't have to remember my needlessly complicated password. I would not, however, appreciate being forced to use this technology outside of my job. Voluntarily, I might go for it, but I hate having anything forced on me.
You know, that would be a good idea for military dorm room access. Instead of worrying about keys, put a smart card reader on the door and a PIN pad. Pop your id card in, enter the pin, and in you go. Since you're in trouble in the military any time you don't have your id card on you, it will make things much easier. Hell, we already use it for the chow hall and for, as previously mentioned, our computers.
I'm thinking more in terms of how more and more jobs are leaving the country because the worker base in other countries is smarter and the companies have to spend less on education. Ref this artivle: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html
It talks about how Toyota turned down offers from several American states and instead built a plant in Ontario because "Ontario workers are well-trained."
From the article, "The level of the workforce in general is so high that the training program you need for people, even for people who have not worked in a Toyota plant before, is minimal compared to what you have to go through in the southeastern United States," said Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, whose members will see increased business with the new plant.
You have to be motivated and non-lazy to get educated, thus my point.
Whisky or quality rum are what I prefer for drinking and gaming. It's even better if you have a headset so you can share your drunken ramblings with your guildies. I love doing that.
And EA Spouse, whose true identity has been cloaked until now, is becoming a voice against America's culture of overwork."
Does America really have a culture of overwork, compared to other countries? Sure, we may work harder then Brazil or France or something, but India, China, Japan, Korea, alot of places like that are kicking our ass because we tend towards laziness.
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"They would fuck their economy up too."
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Except that they have other routes to try for their economy. We need China more then China needs us, in every field.
"how do you figure that? The US has GOBs of cash we could spend on lots of worthless crap. Hell, the US economy bearly registers a hickup funding the Iraq war and the HUGE disaster that hit the US gulf coast and all that that caused."
Of course! That's why gas is so cheap! Go into the military and just try to get the necessary money for critical supplies now. Or check out the rapid progress of rebuilding in the Gulf Coast . As for Iraq, our grandkids and great-grandkids will be paying off that debt. If the economy hasn't been hit by it yet, it's because our government keeps borrowing its GOBS of cash. It's the equivalent of going to check-cashing places at taking out a whole bunch of short-term loans because fuck it, you'll be out of office anyway by the time they are due.
http://southwestfarmpress.com/news/06-05-09-defic
That faery handbag story is pretty good so far. Bit simplified for my like but no problem. Reads like it would translate well to a Neil Gaiman graphic novel published by Vertigo. I could easily see it as a stand-alone or as a story in Sandman.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vie wArticle&code=CAR20060508&articleId=2405
State legislators in Illinois and California and other states are getting the ball rolling on it, regardless of the fear and cowardice of national-level Democratic party leaders who don't want to do their FUCKING JOBS.
It basically means that we can't do anything they don't like, or they can fuck our economy, or at the very least turn off the money, and we won't find another country to borrow money from. The dumbass war in Iraq has drained us entirely of money. Without Chinese money we don't have the funds for another war in the Middle East, and we won't have Chinese money if we want to start another war in the Middle East. See the trouble?
1. Anything they can't make they can buy from Russia or China, and Iran is industrialized enough to make a lot.
2. China is not going to turn off their oil supply. Russia is not going to turn off their nuclear technology market. We don't have the capability to make China or Russia comply, especially since we are in debt to China for 250 billion dollars. We can put sanctions on Iran, giving them further justification to thumb their nose at us, China and Russia will keep Iran more than solvent, and we'll look like damn fools.
3. Iranians fell over themselves to be a guerilla force during the Iran-Iraq Wars of the 80s. Watch how fast they remember.
Also worth noting is the fact that China is hungry for Iran's natural gas and oil, and we've backed countries in bloody wars for less. China's backed countries against us before also, ref Vietnam and Korean Conflicts. We can reasonably expect to face not only the unhappy prospect of a ground war in Iran where the entire country is willing to die to keep us out, but also military reaction from Russia and China. Iran could very easily become the spark point for WW3, and if we use a nuke on them, it will free up Russia and/or China to justifiably use nukes on us to keep us from doing it again, to say nothing of the reaction from the Iranian agents who are undoubtedly waiting on standby at targets of importance to America all over the world.
Fucking moron flag-wavers are going to get us all killed, we don't need crazy irrational fanatics on both sides to make this shitty mess any scarier then it already is.
And he's not even being terribly hidden about it. Armageddon's gotta happen so Jeebus can come back!
The internet and computer usage is a fucking right of geeks. It's our heritage. We built this shit, we maintain it, and all the morons only get on here because we're running their servers, developing their software, taking their tech support calls, building their computers, fixing their computers, all that crap.
If someone gets their upgrade or computer building done right the first time, then they're one of us and are welcome to join the club. Otherwise, they can shut up, take the joke, pay us, and get back to trying to download movies from warez sites and wondering why their computer is infected with hundreds of viruses and worms.
I got my computer upgrades right the first time, and my computer building right the first time also. Fucked some shit up on an OS install a while back, but I got lucky somehow and fixed it myself. I'm proud of that shit, it's a geek right of passage to pull that stuff off right.
I found it for PS1 at a Funcoland a while back and picked it up for the hell of it, but like many of my other PS games, I haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
Yeah but it was a fairly realistic depiction, as far as I could tell.
I've seen facilities that do that, but none that deal with angry cloned dinosaurs.
Something I've seen that's funny is at some CPS (Chemical Protective System) equipped military buildings. They're intended to survive attacks from enemy missiles loaded with deadly gases and bioweapons and stuff, and they do this by sealing up the building and creating a pressurized environment. However, the seal and the pressurization is powered by a backup generator. And the generator is outside the building, or outside the sealed area of the building. So in order to have a safe protected building, you need to go out into the contaminated environment. Whoops.
Sometimes, the computers are even green text-mode terminals, even in modern TV shows.
I still see computers like that in use every now and then. Mostly in banks and military facilities. Always kind of suprises me to see stufff so old, but they are out there.
Now as to how he'd make the logic jump from that to the countdown being "destruction of all human life", that's another thing to question - but given that most people who believe in aliens fall into two camps: A. they come in peace and B. they're out to destroy us... *shrug* The fact that, instead of sending a delegation in search of the planet's political leaders or something like that, they had a fleet of massive ships take up stationary positions over strategically important major cities, would tend to indicate B. Hmm, there's a large alien ship over every major human city. Maybe they bring candy!
Answer: Because it's Science Fiction. So was Wargames for that matter. I thought ID4 was pretty cool when I was in my early teens. Course, then I grew up. Now I just like seeing the cities blow up, and hearing the BBC announcer say "It is clearing the mountains, moving too slowly to be a comet, or meteor"
They mentioned that in the movie, IIRC he got in through some contracting company or something in the same area code as the game company, that still had a connection open to WOPR because of an oversight. And as someone in the military, I do know that accidental glaring oversights happen all the time. Love the "...whoops" moments.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
One of the ways I've heard the voice synth explained is that it was pretty likely that both Matthew Broderick's character and the government bought the voice synth equipment from the same place. Much like how the Windows male voice synth voice is the same on all computers. Just something I heard tossed up somewhere.
Mr Potatohead! Mr Potatohead!
In my defense, I haven't slept in 30 hours (don't ask). But yes, Joshua was the WOPR.
Don't know where the frig I got Jason from. The worse part is I wrote that after reading the article where they mention Joshua (as an unlikely password).
I suck.
But I really do have Wargames on DVD and a Wargames poster in my computer room and a Wargames desktop background.
I would support Humor as a political party, but I'm more in favor of it as a religion. That's why I'm a Secular Humorist.
The old dinosaurs are jealous. That's my guess.
Now I'm hungry...
Regardless of how probable or improbable Wargames may have been, it was and will likely remain one of my favorite "nerd" movies. I don't think I could ever get tired of it. The chick's hot too. Jason had some of the best lines, even if they did sound like they were delivered by a Speak N Say. Perhaps because of it. Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
think how nice it'd be to have a smartcard reader on your computer and just use your normal id-card (with a pincode) to logon
Incidentally, that's exactly what the US Air Force does. I like it because I don't have to remember my needlessly complicated password. I would not, however, appreciate being forced to use this technology outside of my job. Voluntarily, I might go for it, but I hate having anything forced on me.
You know, that would be a good idea for military dorm room access. Instead of worrying about keys, put a smart card reader on the door and a PIN pad. Pop your id card in, enter the pin, and in you go. Since you're in trouble in the military any time you don't have your id card on you, it will make things much easier. Hell, we already use it for the chow hall and for, as previously mentioned, our computers.
I'm thinking more in terms of how more and more jobs are leaving the country because the worker base in other countries is smarter and the companies have to spend less on education. Ref this artivle: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html
It talks about how Toyota turned down offers from several American states and instead built a plant in Ontario because "Ontario workers are well-trained."
From the article, "The level of the workforce in general is so high that the training program you need for people, even for people who have not worked in a Toyota plant before, is minimal compared to what you have to go through in the southeastern United States," said Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, whose members will see increased business with the new plant.
You have to be motivated and non-lazy to get educated, thus my point.
Whisky or quality rum are what I prefer for drinking and gaming. It's even better if you have a headset so you can share your drunken ramblings with your guildies. I love doing that.
And EA Spouse, whose true identity has been cloaked until now, is becoming a voice against America's culture of overwork." Does America really have a culture of overwork, compared to other countries? Sure, we may work harder then Brazil or France or something, but India, China, Japan, Korea, alot of places like that are kicking our ass because we tend towards laziness.