It can run Crysis BACKWARDS and SIDEWAYS at 1,000,000 FPS. The gameplay is also far more tense, because you are using Nvidia's new TENSOR cores.
I just had a brainstorm. There should be a version of Crysis that mines bitcoins while you play and the more dudes you kill in the game the more bitcoins it mines.
That's totally my idea don't none a you try to steal it I'm going to patent it in the morning. Or copyright it. I can't remember which.
According to Microsoft's new Terms of Services agreement, you could get banned for "offensive language," resulting in the termination of your Gold Membership and/or any Microsoft account balances. The changes go into effect on May 1.
Hey, who else is feeling good about the fact that we don't have any clue what the fuck a Microsoft "Gold Membership" is?
High five me.
I love it when I hear bad news about some shitty technology or corporate web nonsense that I didn't even know existed.
For once we utterly agree. I don't care why he did it, or if the flat-earth thing is a sham. He DID it, that very thing kids our age dreamed about doing as we built go-karts and bottle rockets, in our 10-year-old's best imitation of those newfangled manned space missions. And that's an inspiration.
Maybe we all need to be kids again, so we can understand what he achieved.
That must be it. Maybe these recent generations growing up without Estes model rockets has somehow limited their capacity for wonder. Which reminds me, how many C-65 engines wired up in parallel do you think it would take to launch my '83 Corolla into low-Earth orbit?
Australia was already locked down pretty tight legally, but they continue to be subjected to the usual stream of additional new regulations. Same for Japan, which oh by the way has probably the highest suicide rate in the developed world. (It's hard to tell, because they are deliberately underreporting.) In the UK they've built themselves a fine surveillance society, which is something else we don't want to emulate.
OK, now we're getting somewhere. If we say that surveillance state = fascism, then how exactly did our Second Amendment and 350,000,000 guns in civilian hands protect the United States, which is now one of the most highly-surveilled nations in the world?
The answer is, it didn't. Civilian guns earning or protecting liberty is a myth. It could be argued that guns in civilian hands actually contribute to the rise of fascism.
No you didn't. If you actually knew someone with an AR-15 he would have broken your nose for repeatedly calling it a "clip".
Do you know what the "AR" in AR-15 stands for? It stands for "Actually Rifle" because whenever there is a discussion of this rifle you can count on assholes showing up to tell you why you actually deserve violence for using imprecise terminology to describe any part of this school murder device.
At least they eat their birds which brings down the 10 billion chickens that die every year number.
I can guarantee that 1) Not all birds shot in Texas are eaten (at least not by humans). Other non-drunk predators probably eat half of them off the ground and get to swallow all that lead shot which adds to the circle of death. Oh, and those are just the ones taken legally. There are tens of thousands of poachers in Texas. They go out there and believe it's their god-give right to blast anything that moves with the most inappropriate firearm imaginable. I knew someone who shot turkeys with a fucking AR-15. Just empty his clip, drink a few cans of Shiner Bock and load up another 30 round clip. Rinse and repeat. He was otherwise a decent human being. He took me fishing off Baytown and Galveston. Oh, and 2) there are a lot more birds killed than Parks & Wildlife have in their reports, because the reports are on the honor system, and a lot of the bird holocaust takes place on private lands, well away from rangers.. Figure all together there are at least 30 million birds massacred every year in Texas all together. Since there are only 28 million people in the whole state, there are way too many people there who have never tasted a game bird for all those birds to have been eaten.
For those of you who aren't following along, the article SuperKendall links to talks about how the giant sollar thermal collection plant in California kills 6000 birds a year.
What it doesn't tell you is that the federal Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that a minimum of 10 BILLION birds breed in the United States every year and that as many as 20 BILLION may be in the country during the fall migratory season. It also doesn't tell you that during the 2016-2017 hunting season, Texas hunters killed over 24 MILLION birds for sport. And they do this every goddamn year.
To summarize, 6000 birds die at a power station and it's the fucking bird apocalypse, but 24 MILLION birds get blown all to shit by Texas hunters and it's a manly and culturally significant ritual. I wonder what all that birdshot does to the lead levels in Texas surface water.
Oh, here's the statistics from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, in case you want to see for yourself what goes on in that god-forsaken state.
Matt Ridley quoted at Coyote Blog here [coyoteblog.com]:
You will notice that the blog in question is a "climate skeptic" blog, which is a nice way of saying, "denier". Also, let me draw your attention to the fact that Matt Ridley offers a ton of facts and figures, without offering a single citation or link. Also "Coyote Blog" also doesn't provide any links or citations. Just weasel-phrases like, "Such numbers are not hard to find" except apparently he couldn't find any to link to It's a 17-paragraph article without a single link. Has there ever been a 17-paragraph article on the Internet without a single, solitary link?
Matt does say things like "From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 per cent of global energy consumption". Except there's one problem. If you actually navigate manually to the International Energy Agency's 2016 Key Renewable Trends, you will find a very different picture. there's actually steady growth in the worldwide energy share created by renewables of all kinds and second (please pay attention here) THE REPORT REFERS TO WORLDWIDE ENERGY CREATION AND NOT FOR THE US SO WHY ARE YOU EVEN TELLING US ABOUT THIS JODKA? How the FUCK do you come here and try to compare worldwide energy use and generation in 2016 to US-ONLY use and generation in 2018?
Strangely, there are IEA reports from 2017 which apparently Coyote Blog has not chosen to report.
But seriously, the manufacture of solar collectors is not exactly environmentally friendly...
That depends upon what type of "solar collectors" you're talking about. If you're talking about photovoltaic panels, then yes there are hazardous materials used in their manufacture, but a lot less hazardous materials than used in say, hydraulic fracturing. And once you've got the solar panels made, there are no hazardous emissions created as they make electricity.
On the other hand, if you're talking about concentrating solar thermal plants (like the ones described in this story) there are no hazardous materials involved in their manufacture, which is definitely environmentally friendly.
And, once they are manufactured, there are no emissions when they make electricity.
Regarding "all the dead birds", I remember when I lived in Texas and a group of hunters was complaining on the radio about wind turbines killing birds before they could shoot them. It is one of my defining memories of the state of Texas.
Nobody knows whether that's true, because every gun interaction has never been reported.
But the ones we know about - the ones where guns in civilian hands were used by groups of civilians, were overwhelmingly in the service of tyranny.
In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find examples of times civilian citizens of the United States used their own guns to gain or ensure liberty for anyone.
Defend WHY you should STEAL from me at the point a gun (the law) money so YOU or someone else can go to school with MY MONEY?
Taxes are not theft in a representative democracy. You know, like the one set up by the Constitution. And why are you so concerned about tax money that goes for education, but not tax money that goes for foreign military adventures or golf trips for your jackoff president? I think you got something in your eye there, hypocrite.
"20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories were OK, but they're not going to compete with any of the Cannes finalists. Netflix will just keep trying and Cannes will eventually realize that requiring a theatrical release is an artifact of a bygone era.
Personally, I think some of the mini-series on Netflix are more worthy of Cannes than those two movies, but again, Cannes doesn't understand that the world has moved on.
Why is he a more of a "fucking inspiration" than Eddie Braun
Asked and answered. See my reply to your identical comment elsewhere in this thread.
People have been doing this kind of stuff much better for nearly half a century
You have no soul. People were sailing on rafts for millennia, but Thor Heyerdahl still gets hailed as a hero for Kon-Tiki.
You're blood has thinned, young man. You need to find yourself before you're old and balding and spend your life online telling people that what they're doing sucks.
That's insane. Why should I pay for someone else to go to school?
Why should I pay for the roads you use? Why should I pay for the military to protect you? Why should anyone pay more for a product than what it cost to make? Why should a dime of money go to someone's profit just for owning a share of stock and having nothing to do with the products?
All these are questions that you will be better equipped to answer when you get out of middle school.
I'm not sure you can really call it a "spacecraft" if it only made it to 1,875 feet. "Likely deathtrap" may be a better description. Hot air balloons commonly go higher and typically involve less physical trauma.
Well, wait a minute now. We were calling Elon Musk's Falcon rockets "spacecraft" when they were still just blowing up on the launchpad.
Or are you saying that "spacecraft" is a social construct and it's OK for rich people to call their vanity projects "spacecraft" but not "Mad" Mike Hughes?
Think about it. When you throw limitless dollars at a limited amount of goods / services, what happens? Prices rise - rapidly. That's what's happened in higher education over the past several decades. Stop backing the loans, and the price will fall. It's Econ 101.
Stop requiring the loans and the price will fall even further. The reason tuitions have gone up is because we have this stupid system where the government guarantees loans so the universities know there's money to be made.
Instead of lending money, just make tuition at all state schools free, as in zero cost. If someone still wants something more "special", they can go pay for a private university. Right now, the bushels of money that are going to universities aren't being spent on educating students anyway. Like health care, when you have a middleman (loans, insurance companies,etc), you just end up increasing costs and debt.
We need single-payer education from kindergarten through college degree.
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I just had a brainstorm. There should be a version of Crysis that mines bitcoins while you play and the more dudes you kill in the game the more bitcoins it mines.
That's totally my idea don't none a you try to steal it I'm going to patent it in the morning. Or copyright it. I can't remember which.
Will this be able to translate "help me get out of this pre-nup and I'll give up the butt" from Slovenian to English? Asking for a friend.
I knew they'd eventually come crawling back.
Nah dude, I rock a PS4 and a gaming PC. I don't fuck with no Xbox.
Hey, who else is feeling good about the fact that we don't have any clue what the fuck a Microsoft "Gold Membership" is?
High five me.
I love it when I hear bad news about some shitty technology or corporate web nonsense that I didn't even know existed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.investopedia.com/a...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/1...
And while the Jury is still out on the current red team representative
And by "jury", I assume you mean, Grand Jury. Because yes, there's a grand jury out on the current red team representative.
I agree. The Second Amendment, for example. It's time for a new Constitutional Convention, don't you think?
That must be it. Maybe these recent generations growing up without Estes model rockets has somehow limited their capacity for wonder. Which reminds me, how many C-65 engines wired up in parallel do you think it would take to launch my '83 Corolla into low-Earth orbit?
OK, now we're getting somewhere. If we say that surveillance state = fascism, then how exactly did our Second Amendment and 350,000,000 guns in civilian hands protect the United States, which is now one of the most highly-surveilled nations in the world?
The answer is, it didn't. Civilian guns earning or protecting liberty is a myth. It could be argued that guns in civilian hands actually contribute to the rise of fascism.
There is still a lot of lead shot used in Texas. Ask someone who reloads their own cartridges.
Do you know what the "AR" in AR-15 stands for? It stands for "Actually Rifle" because whenever there is a discussion of this rifle you can count on assholes showing up to tell you why you actually deserve violence for using imprecise terminology to describe any part of this school murder device.
Also, when people eat less margarine, the divorce rate in Maine goes down.
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3...
Japan? Australia?
I can guarantee that 1) Not all birds shot in Texas are eaten (at least not by humans). Other non-drunk predators probably eat half of them off the ground and get to swallow all that lead shot which adds to the circle of death. Oh, and those are just the ones taken legally. There are tens of thousands of poachers in Texas. They go out there and believe it's their god-give right to blast anything that moves with the most inappropriate firearm imaginable. I knew someone who shot turkeys with a fucking AR-15. Just empty his clip, drink a few cans of Shiner Bock and load up another 30 round clip. Rinse and repeat. He was otherwise a decent human being. He took me fishing off Baytown and Galveston. Oh, and 2) there are a lot more birds killed than Parks & Wildlife have in their reports, because the reports are on the honor system, and a lot of the bird holocaust takes place on private lands, well away from rangers.. Figure all together there are at least 30 million birds massacred every year in Texas all together. Since there are only 28 million people in the whole state, there are way too many people there who have never tasted a game bird for all those birds to have been eaten.
For those of you who aren't following along, the article SuperKendall links to talks about how the giant sollar thermal collection plant in California kills 6000 birds a year.
What it doesn't tell you is that the federal Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that a minimum of 10 BILLION birds breed in the United States every year and that as many as 20 BILLION may be in the country during the fall migratory season. It also doesn't tell you that during the 2016-2017 hunting season, Texas hunters killed over 24 MILLION birds for sport. And they do this every goddamn year.
To summarize, 6000 birds die at a power station and it's the fucking bird apocalypse, but 24 MILLION birds get blown all to shit by Texas hunters and it's a manly and culturally significant ritual. I wonder what all that birdshot does to the lead levels in Texas surface water.
Oh, here's the statistics from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, in case you want to see for yourself what goes on in that god-forsaken state.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publica...
You will notice that the blog in question is a "climate skeptic" blog, which is a nice way of saying, "denier". Also, let me draw your attention to the fact that Matt Ridley offers a ton of facts and figures, without offering a single citation or link. Also "Coyote Blog" also doesn't provide any links or citations. Just weasel-phrases like, "Such numbers are not hard to find" except apparently he couldn't find any to link to It's a 17-paragraph article without a single link. Has there ever been a 17-paragraph article on the Internet without a single, solitary link?
Matt does say things like "From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 per cent of global energy consumption". Except there's one problem. If you actually navigate manually to the International Energy Agency's 2016 Key Renewable Trends, you will find a very different picture. there's actually steady growth in the worldwide energy share created by renewables of all kinds and second (please pay attention here) THE REPORT REFERS TO WORLDWIDE ENERGY CREATION AND NOT FOR THE US SO WHY ARE YOU EVEN TELLING US ABOUT THIS JODKA? How the FUCK do you come here and try to compare worldwide energy use and generation in 2016 to US-ONLY use and generation in
2018?
Strangely, there are IEA reports from 2017 which apparently Coyote Blog has not chosen to report.
That depends upon what type of "solar collectors" you're talking about. If you're talking about photovoltaic panels, then yes there are hazardous materials used in their manufacture, but a lot less hazardous materials than used in say, hydraulic fracturing. And once you've got the solar panels made, there are no hazardous emissions created as they make electricity.
On the other hand, if you're talking about concentrating solar thermal plants (like the ones described in this story) there are no hazardous materials involved in their manufacture, which is definitely environmentally friendly.
And, once they are manufactured, there are no emissions when they make electricity.
Regarding "all the dead birds", I remember when I lived in Texas and a group of hunters was complaining on the radio about wind turbines killing birds before they could shoot them. It is one of my defining memories of the state of Texas.
But the ones we know about - the ones where guns in civilian hands were used by groups of civilians, were overwhelmingly in the service of tyranny.
In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find examples of times civilian citizens of the United States used their own guns to gain or ensure liberty for anyone.
Taxes are not theft in a representative democracy. You know, like the one set up by the Constitution. And why are you so concerned about tax money that goes for education, but not tax money that goes for foreign military adventures or golf trips for your jackoff president? I think you got something in your eye there, hypocrite.
Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories were OK, but they're not going to compete with any of the Cannes finalists. Netflix will just keep trying and Cannes will eventually realize that requiring a theatrical release is an artifact of a bygone era.
Personally, I think some of the mini-series on Netflix are more worthy of Cannes than those two movies, but again, Cannes doesn't understand that the world has moved on.
Asked and answered. See my reply to your identical comment elsewhere in this thread.
You have no soul. People were sailing on rafts for millennia, but Thor Heyerdahl still gets hailed as a hero for Kon-Tiki.
You're blood has thinned, young man. You need to find yourself before you're old and balding and spend your life online telling people that what they're doing sucks.
Eddie Braun and Evil Knievel were stuntmen with corporate sponsorship.
"Mad" Mike Hughes was a crackpot who built a goddamn steampunk rocket in his garage and launched it off a mobile home.
Do I really need to explain to you why Mad Mike is more special?
Nope. Look closer.
Why should I pay for the roads you use? Why should I pay for the military to protect you? Why should anyone pay more for a product than what it cost to make? Why should a dime of money go to someone's profit just for owning a share of stock and having nothing to do with the products?
All these are questions that you will be better equipped to answer when you get out of middle school.
Well, wait a minute now. We were calling Elon Musk's Falcon rockets "spacecraft" when they were still just blowing up on the launchpad.
Or are you saying that "spacecraft" is a social construct and it's OK for rich people to call their vanity projects "spacecraft" but not "Mad" Mike Hughes?
Stop requiring the loans and the price will fall even further. The reason tuitions have gone up is because we have this stupid system where the government guarantees loans so the universities know there's money to be made.
Instead of lending money, just make tuition at all state schools free, as in zero cost. If someone still wants something more "special", they can go pay for a private university. Right now, the bushels of money that are going to universities aren't being spent on educating students anyway. Like health care, when you have a middleman (loans, insurance companies,etc), you just end up increasing costs and debt.
We need single-payer education from kindergarten through college degree.