>> ^peggedbea:
Tuesdays my birthday.
send money for the slot machines and bourbon.
Gah, I hate these Christmas and birthdays so close to each other or on the same day. See XKCD comic strip about that: http://www.xkcd.com/680/ ... Mine is coming up soon.

1. a fixed water pump for my busted old corolla
2. one of those fancy fancy amazing portable crockpots
3. a previously unpublished collection of vonnegut short stories (thank you iv!)
4. a free, impromptu, extra fancy trip to new orleans that got cancelled after my brother decided to stop freaking out and go home to his wife... maybe well use it next weekend for new years.... gotta love a crazy family and my mothers corporate perks.

tuesdays my birthday.
send money for the slot machines and bourbon.

Eve is the closest thing I've ever seen to what I think a MMORPG should be.

If I'm going to play an MMORPG, I want it to be like another life in another reality. The fancy slot-machines that are WOW, LOTRO, GW, WAR, etc do not interest me. Grinding for XP doesn't interest me. Gold farming doesn't interest me. Predetermined plots don't interest me.

Give me a virtual world and let me discover it as I go.

In-game rules and laws should be enforced in-game; If I go on a killing spree, I expect in-game law enforcement (preferably made up of other players) to hunt me down, not to find my account suspended the next day.

I expect deaths to be rare but permanent.

I expect the game mechanics to be kept secret; Numbers don't float off of real people when hit.

I expect to be able to affect the environment directly: Cutting down trees; building houses, weapons, tools; damming rivers; mining raw materials.

I expect the developers to be scripting/triggering new events to make the world feel alive: Have a volcano erupt or a river flood. Start a forest fire that threatens homes. Drop off a van-load of Jehovah's Witnesses in my village.

I expect the players to be left to govern themselves in whatever way they determine is best.

I expect the players to be free from developer-imposed responsibilities. If I want to spend all my game time painting buildings pink, the game ought to let me do that (to whatever extent the other players tolerate it). I shouldn't be forced into any role by the programming.

>> ^thinker247:
I feel no sadness for a man who is interviewed in front of his boat while he's wearing khaki shorts and a polo shirt.


Opposed to someone that is not well off financially. Sounds a bit like a hater.

“The Seminole Hard Rock Casino Tampa has made an offer to William Seebeck, and he has accepted, recognizing that the slot machine he was playing on Sunday malfunctioned, in what can be best described to the layman as a “computer glitch.” The maximum payout on the Ultimate Party Spin machine played by Seebeck is $99,000, although his bet of $1.50 at the time of the malfunction could have generated a maximum payout of only $2,500, with the right combination. Determination of a malfunction was made by representatives of the machine’s manufacturer and software provider, according to established gaming industry standards, with confirmation from an independent third-party laboratory analysis. The casino has opted to settle this matter for an undisclosed amount as a good faith gesture, and we look forward to welcoming Mr. Seebeck on future visits.”

I hate to defend any sucker foolish enough to pour money into a slot machine, but the casino owes him $166 million. The only exception might be if it's clearly posted that the maximum prize on the machines is $99k. If not, pay up bitches.

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>> ^quantumushroom:
Why are you making this a racial and religious issue? Because if you wish to "go there" the Aussie track record on the treatment of Aborigines isn't so hot.


WTF is this comment, dude? a) dag was born in the US and b) what do aborigines have to do with health care?

This comment is a total mess from start to finish. Lazy. Lame. Unfunny. I think it's time you'd given some serious thought to stepping up your game. That new pennypecker kid is quite the scrapper, and he's got his eyes all over your title - like he wants to get all up in that shit, balls deep. If you keep slacking like this, that young upstart is going to usurp your status as official VS fringe-right spokesmodel.

I'm gonna be honest here, there's been a lot of talk around the water cooler that says qm is past his prime, that his best rhetoric is behind him, that he's too old to be a contender. BAH! I say unto these people. Lies! Damned lies! God damned motherfucking lies! I, my friend, would rather jab poison-dipped, sharpened No. 2 pencils into my temporal lobe before hearing yet one more of these nattering nabobs of negativism count you out.

I don't care what anyone else says, kid. You've still got it, champ, and that's an endorsement you can take to the bank, deposit it, wait for interest to accrue, withdraw it and then gamble it all away in a slot machine at the gas station just the other side of state line. You have what it takes to snatch success from the clenched jaw of defeat, and off to the shit smeared bowels of hell with anyone who tries to tell you otherwise.

Just kidding.

Oh, Bill Bennett, yes, wag your moral finger at us, then get back to your slot machines and shut your mouth.

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft ( promoting a game not a film)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7556000/7556131.stm

World's Smallest Burger
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/10/worlds-smallest-burger-fries-soda-meal-yummy.html

World's Smallest Balloon
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14501-worlds-smallest-balloon-inflated.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain
http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/whatsnew/bloody+serial+killer+shower+curtain.do?WT.svl=84002#

Styrofoam Dome Homes
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/styrofoam-dome-homes/

eBay Slot Machines
http://technologizer.com/2008/08/10/ebay-its-a-gamble/

The 10 Oddest City Names
http://blog.hotelclub.com/the-10-oddest-city-names/

GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade
http://broadstuff.com/archives/1140-GMail-outage-pours-rain-on-Cloud-Computing-parade.html

Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/isaac_hayes__shaft__live_1973?id=L2cHkMwzOiM

Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Scientists-Closer-to-Invisibility-Cloak/story.xhtml?story_id=030003EKTENC

John McCain
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7927/suckerpunchhw9.jpg

Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7BB84CAD-258C-4980-A42B-D963F1685E75/

Lego Sushi Sculptures
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/08/11/lego-sushi-sculptures/

McDonalds Visual Kidnapping
http://pingmag.jp/2008/08/11/zevs-visual-kidnapping/

Chuck Norris Facts
http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=chuck

Odd One Out
flickr.com/photos/benpearce/2225087667/
Rocketboom's Andrew Baron to Speak at Portable Film Festival
http://portablefilmfestival.com/symposium.php

Google Streets: Now With Drunks And Fire!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/google_streets_now_with_drunks.php

Protest at Russian Embassy
http://flickr.com/photos/snapperjack/2752846173/

Stella and the Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/

Twitter Fail Whale
http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png

U is for You
http://images.google.com/images?q=mirror

Beijing opening night lures 15 percent of world
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080811/tv_nm/olympics_viewers_dc

The Beer Belt
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/pure_class_and_alcohol_the_bee.php

Monster Segway
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/08/monster-segway.html

Rocketboom on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/rocketboom

Whats up with pronouncing the letter Z as Zed?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070801222415AAjcFd8

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Are you serious?! Hello? You're a smart guy. Look at it this way, on average across a whole year, there is an average temperature. It doesn't vary by much and even in global warming scenarios, it is a few degrees.

So, even not talking about actual year-year warming. Let's assume the average global yearly temp is constant.

So, on average when you start having hotter and hotter weather (from sun output or CO2 etc) guess what? It means even colder extremes as well. Once you start pulling one part of the system to extremes, the whole thing becomes more extreme. More wind, more hurricanes, more rain, longer periods of no rain. The hotter the summers are average across summer months means you have to make up for that in the winter. (On average).

It's like playing slot machines over a very long time. Hot streaks on average will lead to long cold streaks. (Of course in this example slot machines are not truely random, but rather have a preset payout scale and actually manipulate winning percentages to come out with average payouts of 95% or whatever.