You still burn your.mp3's to CDR's? Geez, get out of the stone age already, just connect some speakers throughout your house to your computer, buy an.mp3 player, and get one of those "headphone jack-to-tape deck" gadgets to play music on your car speakers.
Think before commenting -- while the headline says "obsolete," what it should say is "not the latest." Your DX10 card will "last a minimum of 6 months cutting edge, and about a year for not-the-best but playable," at least.
Fuck, I'm using a DX9 card in an AGP slot, and I can run the latest games just fine.
Speaking of the latest games, who wants their ass kicked in Company of Heroes?
Actually, maybe it'd be more fun to stay here and join the Libertarian Militia, circa 2026, and hide out in the woods with a whole lot of guns, waiting for some assholes like you to come try and take more of our freedoms away.
It strikes me as kind of silly that we'd all get together and settle on the "rules of warfare," instead of just getting together and making warfare itself unlawful.
War is kind of an all-or-nothing affair, you know?
I didn't know that bit about laser weapons in the Geneva convention, though. Someone should mod you informative.
Also, it really says something about the USA that U.S. history classes are mandatory for American high school students, but that I don't remember hearing a single lecture about the Geneva convention in school.
I'm surprised the USA hasn't built a tank designed to permanently blind all of the enemy soldiers.
Of course, that would lead to all of the enemy soldiers investing in protective eyewear after a single encounter or two, but most of the countries we pick on can barely afford guns as it is.
Additionally, even the remote possibility of being permanently blinded during battle by a tank that spews out laser grids would do wonders to crush enemy morale.
Of course, you might say that the enemy will just start carrying around full-length mirrors, but that's a mute point if we give our own soldiers protective eye wear to wear into battle. Additionally, having to carry a big mirror around all the time would really hinder your ability to fight.
I guess the only option will be to join the Libertarian Militia and hide out in the Rocky Mountains with a lot of guns, when the shit really hits the fan.
So, I could buy a full-sized movie theater next to an existing theater in Munich, give hundreds of tickets away for free to strangers on the street, and play home-video recordings of the movies from the theater next door, completely undermining their business and driving them to bankruptcy?
Somehow, something seems like it's missing from this explanation.
Are you so sure about that? Because you know, before the shit hit the fan in WW2, Germany saw "a mass exodus" of intellectuals. And do you know where they went? They went to New York, to get as far away from the impending war as possible.
And now the USA is the world's foremost superpower... it won't be, though, once everyone who actually values due process of the law and personal freedom leaves the country to be managed by people with your degree of utter ignorance.
It didn't even occur to me that you might have a pet grievance against the use of "price point".
Really? Because here's what he wrote in his post that you responded to:
Yeah, kinda like how no one would ever say "price point" in cases where "price" would convey the same information.
You read his single little example as an attack on Sony itself and completely missed the original point. So you've basically just made a serial jackass out of yourself.
Really? It doesn't affect a single person in the country?
Can you show me where the publicly-available list is of all the people who have been wiretapped by the NSA that you so clearly used to determine this quite matter-of-factly?
More like, "suing over the equivalent of sharing a song taped from the radio with hundreds or thousands of anonymous strangers using an encrypted broadcast protocol."
If you are a geek and high IQ I STRONGLY suggest taking etiquette classes, social interaction classes and do everything in your power to have the knowledge to fake being good at party socializing
Wow, you've really stereotyped geeks that much? I like to think I have a CHA modifier of at least +4.
The amount of diesil that 250 million would buy is way more than the cruise ships will use extra, even if they keep running to this same point for a hundred years.
Again, more of these "out of my ass" figures that annoy me to no end on slashdot.
I mean, do you really know what mileage they get? Do you really know that what you're saying is truthful? Or does it just sound truthful enough for you to accept without considering?
a 6'2", 185 pound man would be more than height-weight proportionate... also, it's important to consider that muscle weighs more than fat. BMI is a better indicator of obesity than just weight.
even though it would only cause them to go about 30 miles to circumnavigate the island
I wonder what the long-term expenses of that would be. Maybe making the bridge is ultimately cheaper than paying for all that gasoline, thus ultimately benefiting the economy?
Maybe they would say, "screw this - you foreign insurgents get the fuck out - we want the Americans to rebuild."
Right -- like they're going to want the people who blew up their buildings and killed their families to head up the reconstruction.
No, they'll fight you tooth and nail, and welcome the insurgents with open arms. Hell, that's what I'd do, if you blew up my house with a missile. I'd be out to fuckin' kill you, not ask for your help.
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Neither. Humans are completely irrelevant, as far as the universe as a whole is concerned.
You're probably right, but as an agnostic, I'm very much obligated to run into this comment thread and say "well, you don't really know that."
One final ingredient: 400 lbs of ice for cooling, which will melt in seconds once the car gets up to speed.
Not really the most ... practical ... automobile, is it?
"Excuse me, but could you forklift that ice block a little faster? I'm late for work!"
last longer than CDR copies
You still burn your .mp3's to CDR's? Geez, get out of the stone age already, just connect some speakers throughout your house to your computer, buy an .mp3 player, and get one of those "headphone jack-to-tape deck" gadgets to play music on your car speakers.
Think before commenting -- while the headline says "obsolete," what it should say is "not the latest." Your DX10 card will "last a minimum of 6 months cutting edge, and about a year for not-the-best but playable," at least.
Fuck, I'm using a DX9 card in an AGP slot, and I can run the latest games just fine.
Speaking of the latest games, who wants their ass kicked in Company of Heroes?
The whole Galileo vs. Copernicus fiasco is a great illustration of what Dyson is talking about.
Actually, maybe it'd be more fun to stay here and join the Libertarian Militia, circa 2026, and hide out in the woods with a whole lot of guns, waiting for some assholes like you to come try and take more of our freedoms away.
a better start page
I have an easy fix for that: just set the default homepage to Google. Problem solved.
It strikes me as kind of silly that we'd all get together and settle on the "rules of warfare," instead of just getting together and making warfare itself unlawful.
War is kind of an all-or-nothing affair, you know?
I didn't know that bit about laser weapons in the Geneva convention, though. Someone should mod you informative.
Also, it really says something about the USA that U.S. history classes are mandatory for American high school students, but that I don't remember hearing a single lecture about the Geneva convention in school.
I'm surprised the USA hasn't built a tank designed to permanently blind all of the enemy soldiers.
Of course, that would lead to all of the enemy soldiers investing in protective eyewear after a single encounter or two, but most of the countries we pick on can barely afford guns as it is.
Additionally, even the remote possibility of being permanently blinded during battle by a tank that spews out laser grids would do wonders to crush enemy morale.
Of course, you might say that the enemy will just start carrying around full-length mirrors, but that's a mute point if we give our own soldiers protective eye wear to wear into battle. Additionally, having to carry a big mirror around all the time would really hinder your ability to fight.
I guess the only option will be to join the Libertarian Militia and hide out in the Rocky Mountains with a lot of guns, when the shit really hits the fan.
So, I could buy a full-sized movie theater next to an existing theater in Munich, give hundreds of tickets away for free to strangers on the street, and play home-video recordings of the movies from the theater next door, completely undermining their business and driving them to bankruptcy?
Somehow, something seems like it's missing from this explanation.
I can assure you. You wont be missed.
Are you so sure about that? Because you know, before the shit hit the fan in WW2, Germany saw "a mass exodus" of intellectuals. And do you know where they went? They went to New York, to get as far away from the impending war as possible.
And now the USA is the world's foremost superpower ... it won't be, though, once everyone who actually values due process of the law and personal freedom leaves the country to be managed by people with your degree of utter ignorance.
It didn't even occur to me that you might have a pet grievance against the use of "price point".
Really? Because here's what he wrote in his post that you responded to:
Yeah, kinda like how no one would ever say "price point" in cases where "price" would convey the same information.
You read his single little example as an attack on Sony itself and completely missed the original point. So you've basically just made a serial jackass out of yourself.
Thanks for playing.
Really? It doesn't affect a single person in the country?
Can you show me where the publicly-available list is of all the people who have been wiretapped by the NSA that you so clearly used to determine this quite matter-of-factly?
Oh shi-Because clearly, spies operate entirely within the bounds of the law *rolls eyes*
Fuck this country. I'm tempted to finish my education and then emigrate to Canada; America doesn't deserve my contribution to it's economy.
More like, "suing over the equivalent of sharing a song taped from the radio with hundreds or thousands of anonymous strangers using an encrypted broadcast protocol."
Who the fuck modded the parent flamebait? It's clearly a joke, and a good one. Jackasses.
If you are a geek and high IQ I STRONGLY suggest taking etiquette classes, social interaction classes and do everything in your power to have the knowledge to fake being good at party socializing
Wow, you've really stereotyped geeks that much? I like to think I have a CHA modifier of at least +4.
The amount of diesil that 250 million would buy is way more than the cruise ships will use extra, even if they keep running to this same point for a hundred years.
Again, more of these "out of my ass" figures that annoy me to no end on slashdot.
I mean, do you really know what mileage they get? Do you really know that what you're saying is truthful? Or does it just sound truthful enough for you to accept without considering?
a 6'2", 185 pound man would be more than height-weight proportionate ... also, it's important to consider that muscle weighs more than fat. BMI is a better indicator of obesity than just weight.
even though it would only cause them to go about 30 miles to circumnavigate the island
I wonder what the long-term expenses of that would be. Maybe making the bridge is ultimately cheaper than paying for all that gasoline, thus ultimately benefiting the economy?
You'd need some actual figures to determine that.
The only people in Guantanamo were shooting at Americans after teaching in terrorist training camps
How do you know? It's not like there's a list of the prisoners there that any of us can just look up.
contrary to what the marketing woman thought, whose office was near my cube, when she reported me and my co-worker to HR 10 years ago
What was the outcome of that?
Maybe they would say, "screw this - you foreign insurgents get the fuck out - we want the Americans to rebuild."
Right -- like they're going to want the people who blew up their buildings and killed their families to head up the reconstruction.
No, they'll fight you tooth and nail, and welcome the insurgents with open arms. Hell, that's what I'd do, if you blew up my house with a missile. I'd be out to fuckin' kill you, not ask for your help.