"BP to Donate Net Revenue from MC252 Well Leak to Protect and Rehabilitate Wildlife in Gulf States"
A pure PR site. Looks like you can actually find some capable PR people
I do apologize, but... who are you?
Sounds very interesting indeed. Normally I'd be quite fascinated, but... seeing that the whole thing comes from SONY causes me to simply call up this article to say I refuse to touch anything made by SONY.
I know. Large company, lots of different attitudes, some of it could be quite good - but sorry, no. I have had so many bad experiences that I'm willing to get rid of a bit of good stuff while pouring out a huge amount of junk and irritation.
Let's wait for a copy. Even a more expensive copy would be interesting. As long as there's no SONY involved.
Well, by now we should all know that the only way to make money on the stock market is by having some amount of insider information. Everything else you can more or less forget about.
Wrench icon -> Info about Google Chrome -> Ta-DAH.
Does make a bit of sense
>However, we do have real power over Gov't - it's called actual votes.
No, you don't. The USA shows this particularly clearly, as you only have two parties, and they're *both* worthless morons.
In other places (like here in Germany) you can find more parties, but they are *also* all morons, with no exceptions.
So - no, you don't have power over your government; unless you're a large company who simply buys them all.
Why is everybody so up in arms about one guy babbling about something he doesn't like? I mean, so what? Let him babble to his hearts content.
Well, I was in 12 different schools (my parents travelled a *lot*, great fun) and it was the same every time:
a) Get introduced to the class by the teacher.
b) Have the class bully with his 2-3 friends threaten you.
c) Better obey him.
Except that c) never worked for me. Thus I found that this class-bully is typically chicken if he's alone, and will only act like sh*t if he's with his friends.
Thus walk up to him and hit him hard. If you're quick enough, you can beat him up quite a bit before his friends can stop you.
Then you get beaten up, of course.
But the next day, you walk up to him and do it again. After a very short time, they will actually start to leave you alone, and you can spend the rest of your time in school in peace and quiet, meeting the other people, enjoying yourself.
Depends.
Joe at Normal job certainly doesn't work for 8 hours straight over five days a week, obviously. Looking at some bureaucrazies, I wonder if they even work five minutes a week.
However, I come from the crazy world of Teaching Artificial Brains How To Think (yeah, also known as Computer Programming) and - if we're not disturbed - we can work for way over eight hours non-stop on an interesting project.
Has this never happened to you? A cow-orker says it's 11:30, inviting you to come along to lunch later. You nod, looking forward, and sink back into the code. Next time you look up it's because you feel a little tired - and it's 11:30 again, pm.
However, if we're disturbed by managers often enough (we all know that a 20 second interruption will cost you about 15 minutes to sink all the way back into work) we surely won't make 8 hours either...
What is it with these nutcases and pornography?
"Eeeeeeek, a woman showing a naked boobie! How horrifying!"
Well, okay, as long as they don't get the "Press any key to continue" message...
As they say: "Going to hell in a handbasket".
Quite a few of us outsiders gaze at the USA, being surprised that they still stand, not having fallen apart as the Soviet Union did some years ago.
But then, again and again, we see messages such as this one, which are quite clear signs that in the near future, the USA will share the fate of Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Great Britain, Egypt and quite a few others: they used to be World Powers. Then they fell, and these days the are simply nice tourist spots...
>Apparently you're uniformed, anti-US, or outright stupid. As you're a European I'll vote "anti-US".
Nope. While I find the US political activity (= warfare) idiotic, I consider the EU politicians to be just as moronic, so I'm not anti-US per se. After all, I did live there for a couple of years, and the people themselves are usually rather friendly.
Seeing that I have excellent genes (50% of my extended family are doctors, the others scientists, with merely one manager) and a high-level job, I dare to believe that my intelligence is at least average - certainly not "outright stupid"
Uninformed, however, is always a possibility.
I see your only argument here is against me saying that anti-missile tests usually failed. You claim that this is not the case with SM-3s, which have a hit-probability of around 80%. Now this 80% is the best test record from the marine - which is known for faking quite a few tests, and simplifying a lot of other tests.
I'd think that a no-warnings test would have a hit percentage of around 50% - pretty darn good for taking down a missile, but certainly not enough (even 80% would be too low). Missiles are rather cheap, compared to aircraft carriers...
If I misunderstood you, I do apologize. Your message seems a little, hm, off-the-cuff, and I am more used to argue with people giving me useful data.
I'm afraid that I cannot quite agree with you:
> The SS-N-22 is a hush-hush subject because it basically reduces our carriers to floating targets. Not the case.
Sorry - but carriers already *are* floating targets. I remember quite clearly the fleet showing up at Lybia quite a few years ago. The carriers had aircraft which were used exclusively to protect - the carriers. And bombing was done by aircraft which flew straight from the the US via the UK.
I'm also thinking of that nasty little book in the 80s (I do apologize for not remembering the title right now) which took a long, hard look at the US and USSR weapon efficiency; the last combined NATO maneuver in the north sea showed all (all!) carriers being (simulated to be) sunk on the very first day.
An aircraft carrier these days is a major waste of space, and primarily used for top-class idio^H^H^H^Hpeople to brag^H^H^H^Hprotect our freedom.
> Exocet was a threat when they made the movie Top Gun, but not today.
Really. I'm sure all ships will be able to easily shoot these things down. After all, the anti-missile tests went smashingly well, right? Right?
> In any of these cases, the targeted ship can detect the radar...
Ah, I see. Of course, you certainly need super-special radar to detect a target, right? Normal shipping radar is certainly not sufficient, right? And we cannot possibly hook up a new system to an existing radar - would be too cheap to build...
> A few people mentioned the ethical issue of arming merchant ships
Yes, that's a dumb idea. And seeing that our rules are idiots and morons, this has happened in practically every war since Egypt was founded...
>will change from "ask first, ask again, check three times and only fire when fired upon" to "ask once and if you think he's hostile, shoot." It can even go further to "Check to see if your'e sure he's a friend, and if you can't tell, shoot."
Which already is more or less how civilians are treated by the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Aaaaah... have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts, Section 'Logos': The three shapes were meant to stand for the "basic alphabet of graphic design." Nix EOA, and nix ECA.
Looks like we both learned something new today
(PS: Yeah, I loved the C64, too, but preferred the 48K ZX Spectrum, which actually had more available RAM)
And?
You're looking at a game from EA. You actually spent time in doing so? Better yet, did Beta-testing for them?
EA used to be a brilliant company, many years ago, when it called itself EOA. Times change, companies go to waste, and earn my filter badge. Even EA turned into a piece of garbage, not worthy of my attention (and, worse, money).
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
