Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 29
No, as per TFS it bears load at the joints, where it's going to put more strain is on the skeletal system.
No, as per TFS it bears load at the joints, where it's going to put more strain is on the skeletal system.
Speaking as someone who likes shooters, AND who likes consoles, console shooters are rubbish.
If you are expecting them to give you the same experience as using a mouse, then they are quite rubbish. But they can be enjoyable, so long as they aren't trying to be both things. On the other hand, aside from the thorny issue of whether to mix PC and console players in multi (answer: no) it's often possible just to ratchet up the default difficulty for the PC. Halo was certainly a doddle by comparison on the PC, aside from segments driving vehicles where I found the difference to be negligible, but that didn't make it any more or less exciting (or the levels near the end any less boring.)
A console is a fine place to present a shooter that's heavy on story. And if you don't like those games, you can just avoid console shooters and spare yourself a lot of wasted time- wasting.
This is about someone getting paid to drive someone else somewhere for a profit (a significant portion of which is taken by a large company), and that person not being able to use the HOV lane. That's it.
And what's wrong with that?
Either it's a HOV or it's a protected-for-protected-classes-and-fuck-the-public-interest lane.
Are there no safety standards which would apply to any vehicle on Californian public roads?
No. There are not. We don't have safety inspections here. Just smog inspections. That's because they don't care about our safety, just looking like they're doing something about air quality.
endemic corruption and all that it enables (e.g. drug-related violence, election fraud and inefficient business and government) make it impossible for the nation to realize its full potential.
Yes, the influence of the corruption in Norteamericano politics really has boned Mexico. Wait, is that not what you meant?
German law disagrees.
Pardon me if I do not get teary-eyed over the notion of German law.
We need more customer protection like this.
This is not customer protection. The users have not in fact brought any custom to google. They're receiving a free good or service and should not be entitled to anything.
If you want a car that pollutes less, here is the realistic choice:
Car, not missile. Velomobiles are convenient in that they provide conveyance and coffin in one attractive package, however.
A simple "Sorry, I need help" isn't nearly enough. These days your online reputation can be your most important asset. Can you imagine if one of the people he did this to got turned down for a job because their name showed up on a child porn site or pro-Nazi group in a standard background check?
I can, but that wouldn't be his fault — at least, not entirely. That would be at least as much the fault of whoever runs the background check system, and whoever uses it and trusts it. And meanwhile, at least some of the people he did this to did likely mistreat him, and at least some of the others will have been complicit in that mistreatment, if only by cooperating with it if not directly contributing in some fashion. That obviously doesn't make what he did right, but people rarely snap without being victimized.
I don't know what went down on the forum you moderate, but if you were moderating a forum in which someone was abused, then you were part of what happened to them. Responsibility, it's not something you can put aside as convenient. Sure, legally you can do so, but that doesn't really change the facts.
If a bad guy jumps you with a knife, pulling your gun out is too slow.
If a bad guy "jumps you" then unless you're Aikido dude or what have you, you're probably already fucked no matter how you intend to defend yourself. Initiative is massively important, and I don't mean that in a dungeons and dragons kind of way. Often, the first shot decides the fight.
On the other hand, most people aren't carrying around long sheathed knives, if the knife is big enough to need a weapon to defend against it then it's probably a folder and you very much can draw a gun, point it, and shoot in about the same kind of time.
Guns work great at a moderate distance. Three meters. If you can keep three meters and draw a firearm against a melee-armed man, you have control. At shorter distance, you have liability.
At a shorter distance, guns are still massively deadly. Point blank is scary for a reason. I don't want to be involved in a close-quarters fight with someone with any kind of weapon. The best defense is to be somewhere else. Yeah, blaming the victim, but if you have the opportunity to be somewhere [relatively] nonviolent, take that option.
Microphone will pick up *a* bang, and thus will give an information when *some* gun was fired in the vicinity of the police.
It could be any gun on the scene
Today, the US military fields equipment which can tell where a gunshot occurred, and what kind of firearm was responsible, and what kind of ammunition it uses. Granted, it must require training, but since cops have to qualify with their sidearm that's an ideal time. Let's get some of those into the field rather than MRAPs.
If Cuba had oil . . . the embargo would be over really fast.
It Cuba had had oil, the embargo would have been over really fast. Today, if Cuba had oil, TERRISTS! TERRISTS ALL OVER CUBA! WE MUST BLOW THEM UP!
Except, being able to create sellable fuel from nothing is a killer business. Nobody would say "let's NOT take over the world's fuel production and make trillions of dollars from our patent; let's instead sit on it, and buy all our fuel from elsewhere". So logic tells us that there must be something wrong with the product that means it fundamentally doesn't make a profit versus digging oil up.
Okay, smart guy, tell us what the problem is. Gevo doesn't see a problem.
If someone was able to make bacteria that could, given sunlight, split water, it would spark a hydrogen economy revolution.
We already have bacteria which can, given any organic matter, split it into butanol (a 1:1 replacement for gasoline) as well as acetone (an industrial solvent, which burns clean and can be used to alter the octane ratio of the gasoline replacement) and ethanol ('nuff said.) Practical commercial exploitation was worked out at a public university and therefore partially with public funds, but the patents are owned by Butamax, a shell company owned by GE and DuPont. They have sued Gevo to actually prevent them from producing and selling fuel to the public, something in which Butamax apparently has no interest. They've been sitting on the technology for years.
The truth is that if someone did come up with such a bacteria, a patent would be assigned to a corporation by hook or by crook, and it would either be exploited or be buried to preserve profits for other industries until such a time as those profits become harder to come by. But the already-inconceivably-wealthy seem determined to ride this pale horse until they run it down... Right down our throats, until we choke.
I've got five Android 4.x devices that run Netflix and Hulu and everything just fine, and Amazon STILL won't let me install their fucking app on ANY OF THEM. So much for 'releasing' it.
time to do some hacking. you can diddle your uh, shit, this post would be a lot cooler if I could remember what the file was called... [googling] ah yes,
There might even be an Xposed module which will let you lie to apps about what kind of device they're running on, but I haven't looked into that at all. Just musing.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
