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It's pronounced "Nuke-u-ler"; the "s" is silent.
It's really easy for a letter to be silent when it's not in the word at all!
So you think. It's so good at being silent that you don't even know it's there. It's what's known to orthography researchers as a "ninja letter". Very rare. Well, we think it's rare, because since it's a ninja, we can't tell for sure if it exists or not.
Funny how you never hear the Moon Landing Hoaxers talk about that niggling little detail.
Hubble is just a Keystone spy sat turned the wrong way. All those "military" shuttle flights were probably launching the fleet of secret Hubbles that were pointing down at us. The Air Force demanded that the original Shuttle, which was smaller and cheaper, be turned into a Keystone truck if NASA wanted backing for the Shuttle back in '72-'74 (Jerry Grey, Shuttle).
To become the flying spysat truck, they added on the solid rocket boosters... which kludge caused the explosion of the Shuttle in '86.
And we're about to defund our space program, while they had endless free money on the spook side to launch a fleet of Hubbles... goddammitttt....
Ladies and gentlemen: Why NASA never has enough money.
Yes, but we were talking about letters. You do know the difference between letters and packages, don't you?
At least my foaming at the mouth bigotry is well informed. If you bother to look it up, you'll see that I am correct.
all of Christainity worship the same savior and are supposed to follow the same rules.
That's not completely true. While they all have their roots in the same book, the actual religions can be very different.
Roman Catholics, for example, include the worship of demigods (they call them Saints) and obeisance to the Church hierarchy, as well as the rite of confession. Some Protestant religions base their religion on personal understanding of the New and Old Testaments, and the Good Book is the only set of rules to live by. Some Protestant religions include the rite of confession, some don't. Some have clergy, some don't.
To say that all Christian religions are the same except for trappings would be the same as saying that all Abrahamic faiths are the same except for trappings. I mean, sure, Christians have a set of extra books to follow (compared to Jews),and Muslims have another book on top of that. But really, it's the same God they worship, so they're all the same religion, right?
Have you tried Lost Planet? you can actually get the reticle on the target with only reasonable difficulty.
No, but it doesn't sound much better than any other console shooter. Actually I take that back -- I tried a demo system at Best Buy once. Not a fair shake by any means, but I certainly didn't find anything to be significantly different about the controls than other shooters.
but it's poor at actually determining precisely where I'm pointing and that makes it frustrating.
Never had that problem. Instant and precise targeting with no difficulty whatsoever is exactly why I fell in love with it.. All I can suggest is make sure there are no significant IR sources other than the wiimote sensor bar (i.e. the IR LED bar) in the general direction of the TV. At my last place I had to close the blinds on the windows behind the TV, for example.
Oh and of course it's not line-of-sight to the TV that determines where you're pointing, it's relative like a mouse.
Their business is protecting and saving lives
You know who "protects and saves lives"? Medical personnel, doctors, nurses, firemen, police. Armies do the bidding of the most powerful, which almost always means some very bad days for regular people.
You can dress it up with all the lovely rhetoric you want, but if you listen to the sales pitches, read the brochures, of all that great "protecting, life-saving" hardware at a weapons show, you'll hear about killing people, hurting people, depriving them of life.
We say it to make the young men and women who do the fighting and end up dying or being mutilated feel better, but all that business about "protecting liberty" and "fighting for our freedom" is just a canard. What was the last time in American history when we actually fought for our "freedom"? Now, it's about protecting corporate interests (profits) and enriching the people who make all that "overwhelming firepower".
I wonder what was the last time that one single item at that weapons show was actually used for something that didn't end with regular people being dead or displaced.
Do you really believe that only the "good guys" shop at those weapons shows? That they ask for affidavits that the weapons will only be used morally?
For example, imagine if the only way you could send letters was the US postal service. Fed Ex and UPS would be illegal.
The USPS is the only way we can send letters. It is illegal to send letters through parcel carriers like FedEx and UPS. This has served us very, very well for over 200 years, until Republicans decided to kill it by passing completely insane "reforms", such as funding pensions to be funded for 75 years into the future. In other words, the USPS is required by law to have pension funds for employees that have not even been born yet.
When you think about it, the ability for anyone in the country to send a letter to anyone else in the country for less than a dollar is really fucking incredible. You won't get that from FedEx and UPS. We need the same kind of guaranteed service from nationwide internet.
What's amazing is that anyone thinks that this is good, because the play control is abysmal.
Ha! It was after 5 minutes with Metroid Prime: Corruption that I vowed never, ever to play another console FPS with a gamepad again. Before, that was something I just had to put up with because hey, console gaming. It's not as great as mouse/keyboard mostly because turning is still slow but it's a near match for rapidly switching targets on screen, which puts it way beyond any gamepad BS.
Keyboard/mouse is the best. But for console FPS input, the wiimote is awesome.
Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.