I don't know, I kind of agree with that. I don't understand why we didn't build a moon base instead. I have to believe that in the far off future, we'd be interested in colonizing planets. The ISS is like a houseboat.Spidey wrote:The ISS is a POS, and should be scuttled!
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- Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:16 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: NASA, money well spent...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1812
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- Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:14 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Whats to hide
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2762
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Oh, come on. You give Wall Street way too much credit!woodchip wrote:To be a CEO of a major company you would have to demonstrate some ability to run a company.
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:34 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Firefox 3!!!!!!!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4025
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Whats to hide
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2762
Re: Whats to hide
NY Times is running a article of Lord Hussein tighting control over access and his image. Real mature, there. By the way, it's tightening , just so you know. I'm sorry, that was childish and didn't add anything to this conversation. I just feel compelled to point out unabridged zeal when I see it! :P
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:20 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Back to 55?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1346
There's no question that going 55-60 saves an enormous amount of fuel and improves mileage. In a similar test, I was startled at the difference. I'd rather we not change the speed limit though, mainly because I think the oil bubble is bound to pop eventually. Hopefully all of that sweet crude will l...
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:17 am
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: Call out to all D2 level designers (old and new)!
- Replies: 312
- Views: 119990
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:16 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: NASA, money well spent...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1812
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Agreed. The stuff NASA does to forward science and technology is just amazing. The fact that they do it on a budget which gets tighter and tighter every few years is just incredible. When you think about it, the fact that we got to the moon on 1960s technology makes the accomplishment even more awe...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:30 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Ireland rejects EU reform treaty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 717
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Normally, I'd make some kind of argument about all news stories being subjective on some level... but that is one poorly written Wiki entry. No wonder it's up for deletion.CUDA wrote:Wiki is not a fact document, its an Opinion page
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:05 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Fairness Doctrine
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1095
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:37 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Copyright amendments bill to be unveiled Thursday - CANADA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1322
I'm only pointing out a related bill making its way through the G8 that has similar implications to the Canada-specific bill, except its scope of jurisdiction is much broader. At least in Canada, this kind of thing makes news. Here, since the media is an all-encompassing juggernaut, it deliberately ...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:28 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Metal Gear Solid 4...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1146
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:22 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Tim Russert
- Replies: 2
- Views: 519
This was pretty surprising news. I know that as geeky as this sounds, Meet the Press was part of my Sunday morning ritual every week. It's always a shock when you see the fellow on television hours before the event. Russert was an institution and the elections definitely won't be the same without him.
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: My first D1 SP level ever published
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2329
Re: My first D1 SP level ever published
Known issues: the exit tunnel(from the outside) ends in the wrong direction(I can't figure out how to make it exit to the right direction) You first need to note in what way is it the wrong direction. Then, use that information to disconnect that last cube in the tunnel from the others, rotate it c...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Greatest Evil of Today?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 3758
I think the biggest danger today is the modern economist. The economist has ushered in an age where corporations are more interested in appeasing invisible shareholders than their own work force. Every company has to grow, they insist. They invent the forecasts and blame companies for not meeting th...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Copyright amendments bill to be unveiled Thursday - CANADA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1322
The problem is that the music industry HAS come up with a viable Internet business model. With Apple iTunes being second only to Wal-Mart, the RIAA and its cronies are firmly established on the Internet. They are making tons of money off the Internet now - they can't whine about piracy stealing away...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:51 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Copyright amendments bill to be unveiled Thursday - CANADA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1322
This isn't a country specific thing. Right now, the G8 has an equally sinister plan on the fast track, spearheaded by its member countries.
It's ACTA and it's a nasty piece of work:
http://www.eff.org/action/sunlight-acta
It's ACTA and it's a nasty piece of work:
http://www.eff.org/action/sunlight-acta
- Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: 139 and climbing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1078
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This is one of the reasons I really feel we need to cut back on all the aid we give away and start investing some of that money in our own infrastructure before it collapses and no one gets any aid for many years to come. Damn straight. There are many cases where I have to wonder what some of these...
- Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:47 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: What happened to the Midnight Squadron Projects?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1417
- Sat May 31, 2008 5:17 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Funny, if it weren't so sad...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1547
- Sun May 25, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Two things happened last week:
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2491
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I am simply tired of the kind of broad-brush agenda-filled "outrage" propaganda posts here. They have a bit of truth, but are intended only to stir up hatred. They don't comment in them. Seriously, haven't you noticed how TB will start the post and then rarely, if ever, argue about it? It...
- Sun May 25, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: $1 billion for food stamps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 658
I remember sitting across from a booth in a restaurant where two women, presumably a mother and a daughter, were talking about how they were stiffing the government on food stamps. It was so easy, they said. Their advocate was so naive, they said. They talked about blowing some other subsidized gove...
- Sun May 25, 2008 5:07 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Hillary Clinton's fondest wish?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 5531
But that's putting the cart before the horse and presuming that because Obama would sit down with these countries, peace will happen. Even his most staunch supporters would have to admit that a lasting peace is unlikely in that part of the world. That said, we get absolutely nowhere without talking....
- Sun May 25, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Bill O'Reilly going ballistic!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 715
- Sat May 17, 2008 5:33 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Hillary VP
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1996
- Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:49 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: planet descent updates?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2295
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What the heck is your problem?Capm wrote:Trying being the key word. Nobody in power will do anything. Its much like the DBB in that way.
Even setting up a base platform at http://www.planetdescent.net has done nothing to spur anyone off their ass.
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:10 am
- Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
- Topic: E&C - avoid religion and politics discussions. NO
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3081
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GIVEN A HIGHLY VISIBLE PROMINENT LINK RIGHT IN THE E&C FORUM'S DESCRIPTION ON THE MAIN PAGE. And you see how those prescriptions are followed, right? No harm, no foul. I think the rules are fine and they leave an "out" for moderation. If any political or religious discussion descends ...
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:03 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Going 'GREEN' is the new platitude.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6265
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what's wrong with carbon credits/trading? They are a perfect way to put the TRUE cost of greenhouse gas emissions onto our wallets, so we'll do something about it. No, they don't. The rich companies simply buy enough carbon credits to allow them to keep polluting, the cost is passed right along to ...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:50 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: green efforts
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3152
Re: green efforts
I really have no idea what we are supposed to do about China... build a giant dome around it? :P Stop buying things from it. Yes, I know it's almost unavoidable. But we have to realize at some point that every cheap Wal-Mart purchase is a shot to our collective foot - more economically than environ...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:47 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Post pics of your Descent collections :D
- Replies: 109
- Views: 22378
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:40 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Post pics of your Descent collections :D
- Replies: 109
- Views: 22378
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You know, I can't remember if the books are sequential and I don't quite remember if they are based on D2 or D3. D3 maybe? Very roughly, each sequential book follows the sequential game. I don't have much of a collection, but I do have a prettyful Descent poster hanging in my room. It's "The #...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:17 am
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: Call out to all D2 level designers (old and new)!
- Replies: 312
- Views: 119990
I would encourage you to think a little more about the color schemes of the robots. While they all look pretty good individually, when you start seeing them interact together in the mine, I have a feeling that their styles are going to clash. I think the Descent 3 approach of building robots based o...
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:07 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Windows 7 new OS in the works.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1816
- Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:11 am
- Forum: Descent Development
- Topic: D2 polymodel editor...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3073
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:17 am
- Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
- Topic: Call out to all D2 level designers (old and new)!
- Replies: 312
- Views: 119990
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:30 pm
- Forum: Other 6DoF Game Efforts
- Topic: Ballmen: A Source Mod
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5128
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:29 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: How come there were never AI control'd ships in Descent 1-3?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4378
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:28 pm
- Forum: Descent Old Skool
- Topic: Tigg SB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3020
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:34 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: No Yoke about it. RIP Herb Peterson
- Replies: 6
- Views: 732
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:29 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: US Passports outsourced to Thailand?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 657
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:01 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Interplay Back?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 8597