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| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Monday July 31 2006 10:23pm |
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This is probably old hat to a lot of you hardcore B5 fans. but I just found out that Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) did a show on CSPAN and he has a regualar radio show (podcast available). Seems like he is into politics... http://www.jerrydoyle.com/ seems to be more IE friendly |
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| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Monday July 31 2006 7:09pm |
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I heard a good song over iTunes and thought some of you industrialists might enjoy it. You'll have to excuse me if you have already heard it but its Fading Away by a band called Implant. The full song is available on iTunes indiefeed:electronica/dance podcast. http://media.alfa-matrix.com/implant/fadingaway/fadingawaytrack01.mp3 |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 31 2006 3:17pm |
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I guess Vista's speech recognition ain't all that's promised either. http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/7/28/4809 |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 31 2006 10:27am |
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CS, that rocks, i would never do that, but it is fricken hillarious VISTA.edu http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060730-7384.html how to choose your vista upgrade |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Sunday July 30 2006 9:12am |
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Poor Linux, it don't get no respect... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ&mode=related&search= |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 28 2006 2:38pm |
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I will never be a contestant on a Japanese gameshow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19T6gzGEGs&search=Japan%20crotch |
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| Posted by: CJOS | Posted on: Friday July 28 2006 11:03am |
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B_W If you are really ambitious, you could do both. Mine is more of an afternoon thing and I think Steve's doesn't start until 9:00. You could always come back out after the drinking and light fireworks. Up to you. CJOS |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 28 2006 8:46am |
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For anyone interested, Japanese 1, I will be taking it agian as I need more practice with the alphabet. Many of the students currently in Japanese 1 have taken it before. http://www3.uwm.edu/SCE/course.cfm?id=1156 It is $175 and I have all of the course materials, we can make copies where needed to keep costs down. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Thursday July 27 2006 11:02pm |
| What does the extra "S" stand for? Chief Justice Supreme of Smack? | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Thursday July 27 2006 3:53pm |
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CJSOS, Sorry to say, I would love to come out and celebrate your 28-3, but Steven Q will be celebrating his 28-1 on the same evening. Down at a place downtown at 9:30. You would be welcome there for a bit, to double the fun as they say. B_W |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Thursday July 27 2006 2:13am |
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"SuperFriends" and "Mallrats" together at last! http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1700906/ Some how uncanny that they have Ben Affleck's character voicing Superman considering his role in "Hollywoodland".... |
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| Posted by: Irenicus | Posted on: Thursday July 27 2006 12:36am |
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The Chinese "EAST" reactor seems to be a scaled down version of ITER. With whatever advances they've made, it's clear it's still just a Tokamak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAST An important thing to note is that the Chinese aren’t somehow making more progress in fusion than the rest of the world; they're also going nowhere but at 1/20 the cost. |
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| Posted by: CJOS | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 5:24pm |
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If you guys are interested, I'm having a little get together on Saturday in West Bend to celebrate my 28-3. My folks have a cottage on a lake so there will be swimming, boating, and other aquatic activities in addition to any lawn games like bocce, croquet, or playing "Jackass" with my grandparent's golf cart. Let me know if anyone wants to come out. It's about a 45 minute drive from Milwaukee. CJOS |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 4:16pm |
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NS, I want to play this game. Badly. Peter, The real questions are can properly fitting shoes be purchased, and can dancing lessions be aquired? B_W |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 2:14pm |
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Nearscape, Here's a bit of info from the San Diego ComicCon JMS panel that I thought you would like: (paraphrased) "Every 6 months, I get together with WB to discuss what to do something with B5. The DVD sales have raised over 500 million in revenue. Now, I produced B5s 110 episodes at about 90 million dollars. Somehow, B5 is still 50 million in the red. Every time I mention that to WB they say We made a good deal, huh? Anyway, they asked if I wanted to do a feature film but I declined mainly because I can't yet picture structuring a B5 movie as long as [Andreas Katsulas] and [Richard Biggs] insist on staying dead. Maybe in a year or two I'll be able to but right now I can't do something big and those two roles will NOT be recast. So I thought about it, and I suggested a bunch of short films. Little mini-movies or an anthology show set in the Babylon 5 universe. I pick a character and develop an hour-long story around that character. Stories that I wanted to tell during the B5 series but never had the chance to develop. They said, Okay. I said I wanted complete creative control. Do not change my words that I write, and I want that in writing. They said, Okay. And I want to direct. They said, Okay. This project was green lit less than two weeks ago. Its going to happen. Production starts in September in Vancouver, Canada. Post-production will occur from October to February with a release of the first three anthologies in the second quarter of 2007." |
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| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 12:25pm |
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Not sure if John reads this page or not but looks like he might not be the first to get his fusion reactor off the ground. http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060724-065917-5783r As far as the AMD and ATI thing, Kruger did you read the article? AMD is assuming a lot of debt and their stock has fallen. Most of the analysts say this is a do or die move for AMD. And if I was nVidia, I dont think I would be as friendly with AMD now that they own the direct competition. Right now you can't say this was a good or bad move. This one will have to play out. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 10:36am |
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http://www.vendetta-online.com/ I'm really enjoying this Vendetta Online game. The dynamic economy is very refreshing. Neglected stations eventually run out of stuff and start paying high prices, which keeps the "hot spots" moving around the galaxy in an unpredictable manner. The desirability of items isn't "hard coded" like a game like WoW, where a "rare loot" will always be valuable no matter how heavily it is farmed. Sometimes if you are in the right place and you pay attention, common ores that are easy for a low-level player to obtain can become valuable. Once players start flocking to a profitable market, then the pirates show up too, encouraging you to always stay ahead of the routine. Heavily -mined asteroids start to heat up and give diminishing returns, ensuring that scan-and-survey explorers are always in demand. Character progression is very flexible. Instead of simply a "class and level" system, there are 5 liscense areas which you can improve in any order you like, allowing you to specialize and re-specialize as you go. Purchasing new ships is surprisingly affordable, making it easy to build up a fleet of different designs for different missions. I just started and I've already got 3 very different ships, which I routinely swap out depending on the mission. The combat is the most fun I've ever seen in an MMO, playing pretty much like X-Wing/TIE fighter but with custom ships. If you want, you can even slide around B5-style, with more realistic physics, although for gameplay you are still subject to an artificial maximum speed, but I can live with that. And finally, there is very little in the way of "transit penalties". All you need to do is get safely away from large objects (in any direction you want), save up 25% of your energy, and then sector-warping is instant. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday July 25 2006 7:03am |
| Why would I waste my time voting in the primary of the losing team? | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 24 2006 10:26pm |
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AMD & ATI sitting in a tree kiss intel goodbye this is a great move by AMD assuming nVidia is still on thier side. AMD has been in the works to leverage hypertransport as an asymetrical bus technology to compete with intels limited pci express. Hypertransport is much faster(pciex16 maxes out at 16GB/s and Hypertransport maxes out at 22.4GB/s). HyperTransport is also a completely hardware solution, whereas PCIexpress requires the OS to implement some of its features. The idea is to create a stronger marrige between the CPU and the GPU, the rummors have it that AMD might release a CPU processor that has as many as 48 pipelines with in a year or two, as a result of this merger, and so buying more CPUs will also increase your processing power, this is great news for vista, as with each new processor, your graphics performance is garenteed to scale. HyperTransport 3 is even cooler, it basicly allows for external interconnects, like usb, but for processors. HT3 could allow for external video cards, and external processor upgrades. AMD rules now more than ever, this is great news. I love it when creative c/b+ students kick magna cumelade ass. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 24 2006 10:14pm |
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the patriot, Hillary Clinton, wants to compare gaming to cigarettes and then tax our beloved games http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/24/rumor-hillary-clinton-preps-for-video-game-tax/ she needs to be taken care of, please vote for Gore in the presidential primaries. the enviroment is way more of a problem than videogames are. |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday July 24 2006 1:15pm |
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That's weird, becuase AMD and Nvidia have been friends for so long. I really like AMD. I hope this doesn't suck. David |
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| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Monday July 24 2006 12:24pm |
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AMD to buy ATI http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=OBR&Date=20060724&ID=5887636 Interesting move on AMDs part. Some of the analysts think that its good for Intel because AMD is now assuming more debt. Now you guys are going to have a love hate thing with AMD =) |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Saturday July 22 2006 11:08pm |
| According to their study, my Exploder is rated at $1.404 per mile, the H3 is $1.949. The H1, however, is still a resource hog, coming in near the top of the list at $3.505, out wasting the hybrids. Also according to their methodology, recycling contributes far more to a vehicle's energy costs than R&D. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Saturday July 22 2006 6:08pm |
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"why does the fact that it's a Ford matter in this discussion?" The Hummer numbers are so good because they assume a 300,000 mile lifetime. My experience (and Ford's largest-in-the-nation pension deficit) leads me to believe that your Explorer will be on the scrap heap long before then, that's all. ;) "Energy costs associated with light-weight alloys and their recycling are not likely to be solved by economies of scale." True, however Spinella throws in R&D, which certainly is solved by scale and technology maturity, and probably accounts for more cost-delta than recycling. The big tip-off that this is more of a political study than a scientific study is CNW's refusal to actually release their technical data. Not that I, personally, would understand it, but if it were available then those on the Internet that do understand would probably shred the study in about 5 minutes. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Saturday July 22 2006 11:16am |
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http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1 electric sports car that operationally is as cost efficient to drive as a 135mpg car, and it does 0-60 in under 4 sec |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Saturday July 22 2006 9:56am |
| in a trick by intel to confuse customers and gain market share, intel will release a dual dual core, processor. AMD claims that this is not a very efficient design, but conceides that customers may not know the difference and will also release a dual dual core before the year is out, AMD is however challenging Intel to meet AMD time scale to launch a true quad core processor. Now here is where it gets confusing, one of AMD's platforms for this Christmas is the 4x4 platform, think bigfoot work station, and the full specs are kinda weird, but AMD has mentioned that it may have 4 socket on a motherboard, 2 of which may be used for "other processors" and 2 of which would be quad core AMD chips. AMD is working to make hypertransport an easy and powerfull processing buss for asymetrical processing. This is HUGE, and if it works, it will force Intel to use hypertransport. On the downside, AMD has been vauge at best about virtualization and 4x4 tech, so I don't even know if AMD knows what they are going to launch in a few short months. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Saturday July 22 2006 7:24am |
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http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/20/amd_dual-core_drop_must_approach_51_percent/ processor buying goodness, in just a few short days |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 8:01pm |
| True, the ability to look to different energy sources is good. We aren't really exporting our polution to Japan as they run off of 80% nuclear power. Unfortunately, the greenies don't like us using things like nuclear or hydroelectric power or coal, which are your best sources of plentiful energy. Mainly I like the article because it will make the greenies' heads explode, not because it has 100% infalible logic (greenies are lucky if they get 10% on a good day). | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 8:01pm |
| Energy costs associated with light-weight alloys and their recycling are not likely to be solved by economies of scale. For instance: there is a huge demand for titanium, but that demand has not decreased the ammount of energy needed to liberate titanium from its "ore" (sorry, don't know the technical term). Unfortunately the laws of physics are not subject to the laws of economics. | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 8:00pm |
| Plus, as hybrid motors are not really energy efficient (anyone with a passing knowledge of thermodynamics should have had a head scratching moment when it was asserted changing kinetic energy into electrical energy then back to kinetic would result in energy savings) even the development of the technology and the facilities to produce them is a waste of resources. Furthermore, there's the fact that hybrid technology is being applied to where it actually is more effective: performance. As electric motors give out a hell of a lot of torque, it didn't take long for people to kick pretentions of being Earth-freindly to the curb and tune up their vehicles for high performance (e.g. Lexus). | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 7:59pm |
| Actually Nearscape, the less that you drive your car, the MORE the production costs should matter. So for me, I'd be much more environmentally friendly if I bought a new Chevy Suburban than if I bought a new Prius because I don't put more than a couple thousand on a year. Since my Exploder (why does the fact that it's a Ford matter in this discussion? It's still using standard, no-frills parts) was also a used vehicle, that makes me super-duper green in comparison. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 5:30pm |
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http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php?js_enabled=1 electric sports car that operationally is as cost efficient to drive as a 135mpg car, and it does 0-60 in under 4 sec |
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| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 12:57pm |
| Regardless of the manufacturer, personally I have no use for a vehicle that costs me more than its traditional counterpart and whose estimated lifepsan is only 100,000 miles. And Nearscape pull your blinders off. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 11:27am |
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Near, I agree with your logic. However, the cost of these hybrids in their materials and batteries, and the cost to recycle these highly toxic batteries, just plumb costs more. People don't seem to get that it's not just the gas they put in the tank, there are more costs associated with certain 'green' technologies. Kinda like with ethenol. If you put 10% of it into the gas, sure you're using 10% less gas, but what you are actually doing is: using a fuel that costs more than gas (Right now it's $4 a gallon and rising, subsized by the govenment, coming out of your tax dollars), it takes more gas to produce (because you have to process the corn) and ship (because you can't pipe it, so you have to truck it), it is less efficient than gas (so you need to use more of it), and it wears harder on engines (so you need more cars, which takes more resources to produce). Doesn't look like such a good idea to me, but that's because quite a few people don't think it through. I say we skip the hybrids. They are messy and not saving that much energy. I'm still all for hydrogen fuel cells. Some of our clients are producing them, and it looks good to me. (space water is still a concern...JIM!!!!) But there are still some hurdles to overcome. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 10:18am |
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Another major shortcoming of the Spinella study is that it compares mature products to new products. Here's the big shocker: new products cost more! Amazing! Once hybrids are no longer "specialty products" with all the associated low-volume premium costs in R&D and manufacturing, then you'll have more accurate numbers. Maybe if he looked at the cost of producing a Tahoe during it's first year of production he'd have a valid study. Anyone who bought a hybrid to save money in the short term is an idiot. The whole point is to take the first steps in spreading our energy dependence around so it's not so focused on oil, and therefore less suceptible to political upheaval, like say, Israel and Iran blowing up the middle east. If instead of spending $2/mile on gas you're spending $3/mile on R&D, advanced composites, and nuclear power, then the hybrid experiment is a success. Which ironically enough, Spinella's study shows that it is. So why should Toyota "back away"? What, because Ford is going bankrupt? Boo-fucking-hoo. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 9:55am |
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"I just found out that I am not driving an OPEC Valued Customer Mobile. Instead, all those people who drive Prius's and Hybrid Civics are." That's not really accurate, since that study includes all energy costs beyond just gas (electricity, recycling, etc), which is a bit beyond the scope of OPEC, so don't expect them to start championing Prius any time soon. Also, to get those numbers you'd have to drive your truck for 300,000 miles, and last I checked, you drive a Ford. Not gonna happen. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 21 2006 9:38am |
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It is a very good year for projects stuck in development hell for the last decade. First Prey, now Team Fortress 2. I'm so pumped I'm providing a nice little ad-free mirror for the HD trailer. Enjoy! http://www.spoolan.net/media/t_teamfortress2_h264.mov If you have issues you may need QT7. |
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| Posted by: CJOS | Posted on: Thursday July 20 2006 3:11pm |
| The Con is On! Hello from sunny San Diego. The city and the hotel have pretty good to us (we witnessed the oddest police chase in history this morning), but the flights could have been better (many delays and the Puerto Rican lost his luggage) even though we did land safely. Penny Arcade has a booth here and I know a couple people put in requests for things. Give us a call if you want us to pick something up. | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Thursday July 20 2006 12:18pm |
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I just found out that I am not driving an OPEC Valued Customer Mobile. Instead, all those people who drive Prius's and Hybrid Civics are. http://www.reason.org/commentaries/dalmia_20060719.shtml Hybrids less energy efficient than SUVs? Delicious! |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday July 18 2006 8:24pm |
| You think you had it bad, I'm suffering from a God-damn cold and breaking out into cold sweats. As soon as I stepped outside yesterday I became a fricken lawn sprinkler. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 18 2006 7:39pm |
| Wow. So, Vendetta Online is made by 4 dudes in Milwaukee? That's pretty impressive. Do you know these people, Intrigue? | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 18 2006 1:04pm |
| Shit, it was 97 on the South Side yesterday. I wish it would rain. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 4:06pm |
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God has tears and all of them are falling on Japan. And there is no sign of stopping. Rainy season was supposed to be over. Still cool though! :) |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 4:06pm |
| Very funny, Dr. Jones! Actually, the series has already been shot and the contestants are: Fat Momma, Cell Phone Girl, Major Victory, and Ty'Veculus.... Sad to say I believe all four are also names Martin Lawrence's upcoming movies. | |
| Posted by: Prime | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 12:34pm |
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I think it might be too late for Pete to go try out for this (that beard has to have some super powers) but it should be entertaining to watch. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/posts.html?pg=3 |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 11:28am |
| Like I said, I poked around Prey a bit on a work machine because I can't really run it at home, and it seems pretty darn good. Some fun Duke Nukem-style interactivity gimmicks, really good atmospherics and audio and stuff, and very weird multiplayer. This definitely isn't your Quakes or UTs, which may be good or bad for you. It will take some getting used to, but that's why I've been interested in it because it is so different and strange. I plan on picking it up first thing when I upgrade my computer in a month or two. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 11:08am |
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Sorry I'm repeating questions, it looked like a previous post didn't stick. However, I do like repeating myself. ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 11:07am |
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Crow, An ad for Eve online said that 'Once In Awhile A Game Comes Along That Changes Everything', would you agree? Who has played the prey demo? Good? Great? Sub Great? B_W |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday July 17 2006 9:28am |
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So, who'se played this PREY demo and what are the results? Good? Semi good? I haven't heard much myself. B_W |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Sunday July 16 2006 3:36pm |
| Guns are illegal in DC? Damn, someone should really inform law enforcement. They seem to have been left out of the loop. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Sunday July 16 2006 12:35pm |
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I agree. Can't possibly happen. B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 14 2006 8:40pm |
| I don't believe that article. Everyone knows that guns are illegal in DC, so there can't possibly be any gun violence. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday July 14 2006 11:42am |
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Damn, I'm glad Prime made it back from D.C. alive. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13834211/ |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 14 2006 10:04am |
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http://www.kptv.com/travelgetaways/9511549/detail.html BW, this is for you, because there were m**f**ng snakes on a plane |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Thursday July 13 2006 12:20pm |
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Incubators? Are they pre-mature or something? These terms you use...I just...don't...know. B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday July 13 2006 11:05am |
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a game to try out from a local game developer in the grand old MKE area. they are located at one of the incubators near the Medical College of Wisconsin. http://www.vendetta-online.com/ |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Thursday July 13 2006 9:21am |
| NEVER! | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Wednesday July 12 2006 6:17pm |
| That's nice. Now put some pants on before you get hurt. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Wednesday July 12 2006 2:16pm |
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Candy is indeed delicious. B_W |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday July 12 2006 1:13am |
| http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hackers_state_department | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 8:21pm |
| My ISP is Comcast, and if it was an ISP problem I would expect similar problems with postings on other websites. However, it's only hear that I have to break up my Russian novels. | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 5:09pm |
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CS... It sounds like an ISP problem.. Who are you connecting with?? (OuttaSight is having DNS issues right now which is making websurfing fun for me!) -A |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 3:37pm |
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Prey is out today. http://www.3drealms.com/news/2006/07/prey_is_out.html Anyone else play the demo? I poked around a bit on my work computer. Very nice audio production on the single player. Very hard to memorize the multiplayer maps with all the portals and gravity flipping. Cool stuff. Need more time to play it... If ya'll are planning on LAN gaming over Labor day I won't be able to make it. So I was wondering if that is set in stone or if we can slide it back or forward by a week or two. I do plan on building a new machine around that time and I'd like to give it a good fire-testing. |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 2:55pm |
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Well, it's no surprize that a Japanese person, especially a woman, is indirect when pressered to make a concrete statement. However, I did learn a little last night about Japanese massage parlors. Kruger, you missed out! ;) B_W |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 9:45am |
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I asked my japanese teacher about the conflict last night, and her response was that it was not very nice of North Korea to do such a thing and that someone should stop them. However, when I asked her specifically about the constitution she said that she was not well enough read on the topic and that she would need to catch up before deciding if Japan should change their constitution. She then reiterated that North Korea is acting badly. she seemed very non direct as i would have expected. |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Tuesday July 11 2006 9:34am |
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I'm gonna 'include browser' too. Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 10:49pm |
| Bush Pilot: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3934788900154749704 | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 8:57pm |
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For some reason if my posts get too long then my submit times out. I haven't been able to find anything consistant about the behavior. It might be my tendancy to double space my paragraphs, except that there have been times when I've only had one paragraph and have had to split that up. I'm using Firefox. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 8:54pm |
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Let's try this. And This. And this. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 6:59pm |
| Can you please describe what is happening that is making you break up your posts? Include browser. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 6:58pm |
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Testing... 1) Hopefully we did. It would be nice to have a few more allies that are willing to actually defend themselves. 2) Rephrase: is it good Nixon improved our relations with China. Absolutely. All Clinton did was allowed our defense industry to leak like a seive and allow China to soak up our rocket technology, which probably wormed its way down into those missile that NK launched. Thanks to Nixon, however, we will have the open channels of communication available so China won't freak out the next time we go to the Yalu River. So, Clinton bad, Nixon good. 2a) How could this have been more like Vietnam? Was Vietnam launching missiles at Hawaii and Japan? I mean, Vietnam did have those attack whales that it sent to sing by our survellience ships, so maybe that parallels this. /sarc 3) Absolutely not. A) It would give China half of Korea. B) China is in no position militarily to do anything about the inevitable shellacking the Seol would take from NK artillery. C) It would legitimize a militarized China at a time when a militarized China is not something that any of China's neighbors wants. 4) It won't change it at all. Anime plots that don't deal with magical girls or tentacle monsters have already taken for granted a Japan that is more militarily involved in the world. See Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 5:47pm |
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Nearscape: Please fix the board so I don't have to keep breaking up my posts. 1) Hopefully we did. It would be nice to have a few more allies that are willing to actually defend themselves. |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 5:47pm |
| 2) Rephrase: is it good Nixon improved our relations with China. Absolutely. All Clinton did was allowed our defense industry to leak like a seive and allow China to soak up our rocket technology, which probably wormed its way down into those missile that NK launched. Thanks to Nixon, however, we will have the open channels of communication available so China won't freak out the next time we go to the Yalu River. So, Clinton bad, Nixon good. | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 5:46pm |
| 2a) How could this have been more like Vietnam? Was Vietnam launching missiles at Hawaii and Japan? I mean, Vietnam did have those attack whales that it sent to sing by our survellience ships, so maybe that parallels this. /sarc | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 5:46pm |
| 3) Absolutely not. A) It would give China half of Korea. B) China is in no position militarily to do anything about the inevitable shellacking the Seol would take from NK artillery. C) It would legitimize a militarized China at a time when a militarized China is not something that any of China's neighbors wants. | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 5:46pm |
| 4) It won't change it at all. Anime plots that don't deal with magical girls or tentacle monsters have already taken for granted a Japan that is more militarily involved in the world. See Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 2:38pm |
| Ptthhbbt, I wouldn't even call that pre-emptive. Let's see, the "test" rockets fell half-way between Korea and Japan. What do you *think* they are targeting? The Aleutians? And seeing how Japan is one of the least-equipped nations to attack N. Korea in the region, they can hardly claim their rockets are defensive. There's really no comparison to Iraq at all. N. Korea is actually a clear and present danger. If China tested some new rockets that "failed" half way to L.A., I don't think we'd be sitting around wagging our fingers either. They know that our resources are distracted, Europe is clueless, and that China wouldn't mind seeing Japan get hit. I can see how they might want to cover their own asses right about now. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 11:13am |
| sorry for my poor grammer, i am a little distracted right now | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday July 10 2006 11:11am |
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http://digg.com/world_news/Japan_Seriously_considering_strike_against_N._Korea Japan is considering an amendment or something to enable the non-militaristic country in its constitution to the right a "pre-emptive strike" on North Korea in the event that the situation continues to escalate. a couple of questions to ponder: 1. did we(Bush) set the example for this? 2. is it a good thing that Clinton bettered relations with China? 2a. if we were still agreediously apposed to China, would this have been more like veitnam? 3. since China is in a better position for war, than Japan, would it be wiser to let China take the lead? 4. how will this change anime(cultural story-telling), if the Japanese go to war with North Korea? |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Friday July 7 2006 11:29pm |
| Arnold for President in 2016! Demolition Man, the most prognosticating movie of all time! I guess I better learn to like Taco Bell, huh? | |
| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Friday July 7 2006 5:48pm |
| That's fascism for you. Always descending on the US and yet, for some reason, landing in Europe. | |
| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Friday July 7 2006 3:51pm |
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you have been fined one credit for violating the verbal morality statute. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/ this goth in england was actually fined 80 pounds for swearing at a metal detector. so when will arnold become president agian? ;-) |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Thursday July 6 2006 10:57pm |
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Crow, It just so happens I was putting a system together today, and have just the thing for you. I will e-mail you the specs. It's an ASUS socket AM2 mobo, which can support up to 8gb of DDR2 ram, and that much ram will run you about $800, $400 for the processor, and the rest is really cheap. Should be just the ticket. (if you don't need 8gb of ram, you can just do 4 or 2, it's really easy to scale and upgrade as you need with this board) They also make a version of this mobo with an onboard geforce 6150, which is virtualy free, and should be perfect for your father's needs. B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Thursday July 6 2006 7:19pm |
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Okay, need some help again. I'm going to be putting together a new PC for my father, so I need some recomendations on dual processor motherboards. This computer's primary purpose is going to be crunching through databases, so I don't need much in the way of video performance (no SLI), but plenty of SATA/SATAII ports would be a plus. Also, need MEMORY. LOTS OF MEMORY. And should I go Athlon-64 or Opteron? |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Thursday July 6 2006 12:33pm |
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Some words of wisdom on the Immigration Debate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhEl6HdfqWM |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Thursday July 6 2006 9:18am |
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Now, if they were creating 'snuff machinery' then it would be a crime againt morality... I'm glad they copied it. Wish they would have kept the previous style, but, eh. B_W |
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| Posted by: CrowScape | Posted on: Wednesday July 5 2006 9:47pm |
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Here's the Japanese commiting a crime against humanity: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8mBZFd3PA&search=Powerpuff%20Girls%20Z http://youtube.com/watch?v=g-QxIGUO_zA&search=Powerpuff%20Girls%20Z http://youtube.com/watch?v=CL1HZKSZZ2g&search=Powerpuff%20Girls%20Z |
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| Posted by: Kim | Posted on: Wednesday July 5 2006 5:58pm |
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I tried launching some spectacular fireworks, but unfortunately they fell into the Sea of Japan. I teh suck. |
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| Posted by: CJOS | Posted on: Wednesday July 5 2006 1:47pm |
| It was reported that a pack of wild geese flew over Big Cedar Lake in West Bend, WI last night around 10:00 pm. The last report of wild geese was last summer when they were followed by a howling griz, but there have been no reports of a howling griz in the area. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday July 5 2006 1:38pm |
| Black Metal BBQ at Club last night was pretty cool. There was dead pig, dead bird, dead cow, Dimmu Borgir, and Pentagram Cookies. Delicious Pentagram Cookies... | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Wednesday July 5 2006 11:22am |
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So, who blew some $hit up this holiday? Come on, let's hear it! B_W |
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