It's based off the NTW-20, a South-African anti-material rifle. It comes chambered in 14.5mm or 20mm. Here's the promotional video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXLRYf9EV2Y

The USPS have been posting significant profits for years now.

Who's the more stupid? The Prawns who essentially gave away a combat suit for 100 cans of cat food, or the Nigerians who gave away 100 cans of cat food for a combat suit they can't even use?

He's actually talking about a 4chan meme, I guess you could call it something like "Rules of the Internet". Rule #1 is never talk about 4chan. Or alternatively replace 4chan with /b/ or fight club.

Rule 34 is "There is porn of it. No exceptions." or some other wording to the same effect. I can attest to having seen a can of mountain dew with a penis ejaculating onto a sandwich, so if there's anything that's actually accurate, it's rule 34.

Yeah, and a deer runs out onto the road, you hit it, lose control. Hey you won't mind that $170,000 on top of the cost of replacing your car, will you?

Quite frankly I find your idea stupid.

I'm not really following your logic on that. You may as well have said "in theory it should be tied to how often they brush their teeth." Your connection between the two seems to be the unstated assumption that 'happy people glow', and following that, since happy people glow, and this study shows that people emit light in various amounts, then the brighter ones are happy.

Here's my own theory: More light being emitted would probably be a result of more energy in the system, so an individual with more than the average number of ongoing chemical reactions would be giving off more light than other people. Variations in light intensity could be explained by something as simple as whether or not the person's digestive system is currently breaking down food.

Just wanted to point out a few things here:

The "Mad Cat" is the inner sphere designation for the clan Timber Wolf. It was named such because it looks like a cross between a Marauder and a Catapult.

Further, the Timber Wolf is an Omni-mech, it was specifically designed for alternative weapon loadouts. Which is to say, it doesn't have any problems with ammo or missiles going in specific locations, because the whole thing is modular. A Timber Wolf Prime carries the iconic LRM 20's, while the Timber Wolf A only carries a single SSRM 6 in the right torso.

So essentially your statement that

Is entirely wrong. In fact, the clans liked the ability to change and customize loadouts so much that they've relegated all non-omni mechs to second-line status.

What??? That is EXACTLY what happens when the police don't need warrants.

This bill makes it possible for it to happen, with no safeguards whatsoever. A well intentioned, but poorly thought-out piece of legislation that gives the police far too much power.

That's assuming they're more advanced than us. But if they're more advanced then us, than in all likelyhood it wouldn't be like indians meeting europeans at all! If we're exceptionally lucky it'd be like our present day society meeting the cro-magnum.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke made a famous observation about space explorers discovering aliens. If one considers the millions of years of pre-history, and the rapid technological advancement occurring now, if you apply that to a hypothetical alien race, one can figure the probabilities of how advanced the explorers will find them. The conclusion is "we will find apes or angels, but not men."

Why? Consider the history of Planet Earth. Let the height of the Empire State building represent the 5 billion year life of Terra. The height of a one-foot ruler perched on top would represent the million years of Man's existence. The thickness of a dime will represent the ten thousand years of Man's civilization. And the thickness of a postage stamp will represent the 300 years of Man's technological civilization. An unknown portion above represents "pre-Singularity Man", the period up to the point where mankind hits the Singularity/evolves into a higher form/turns into angels. Say another dime. Above that would be another Empire State building, representing the latter 5 billion years of Terra's lifespan.

If you picked a millimeter of this tower at random, what would you most likely hit? One of the Empire State buildings, of course.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aa.html#apesorangels

Only if you consider our galactic neighbourhood to be what's within a thousand light years. The problem with aliens detecting us based on our transmissions is that the transmissions we broadcast to the universe aren't infinitely powerful nor perfectly collimated with no divergence. In addition, as the signal gets weaker, it becomes harder and harder to understand or even detect it.

In all likelyhood, an alien civilization as advanced as us wouldn't be able to detect us from beyond 20 lightyears or so. With 1,000 lightyears being about the theoretical maximum. [For those civilizations which are extremely advanced.]

You know, a lot of people out there keep smashing Crysis as being a tech demo. I thought the same thing until I actually PLAYED it.

The game is fun. Honestly, one of the better PC shooters I've played in a long while, and it has a pretty nice looking mod [Mechwarrior Living Legends] in development for it.

Crysis only falls flat on its face when it comes to:
- The AI [The biggest issue is their lack of taking cover and inability to find you when you stealth.]
- The aliens [Boring to fight compared to the north koreans]
- Wide expansive levels that you really can't go anywhere on.

At everything else, all I can do is shake my head and wonder just what the hell people are expecting a shooter to be doing.

This is incorrect. There are only TWO stable Lagrange points [L4 and L5], and they ARE stable in the long run. Jupiter has Trojan asteroids in its L4 and L5 points that have been there for millions of years. Earth probably has Trojans in its own L4 and L5 as well. These two points however, are not halfway to the Moon - Only the L1 could really be considered for that, and in that case you would need a steady supply of fuel for station-keeping.

I sure don't have high hopes for this one. At least the tv-series has a small chance of getting the characters and drama right. [Assuming the networks don't decide to remove the incest and childkilling, and so on.] But I highly doubt videogame developers are going to focus on anything but violence, violence, violence with this. Doing anything else is going to require some thought, effort, and risk-taking as the primary draw of ASOIAF has much more to do with character interactions and political intrigue than straight up and up killing things.

It'll probably end up similar to the three hack n' slash Lord of the Rings games on the Xbox - Gameplay might be fun, but you could remove the setting entirely and not make a difference. Personally, I think the best style for this game would be something more akin to King of Dragon Pass.

It is if you're the police, apparently.

Or it might tell us that there's life on the surface of Titan...