WizardOfAtlantis
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Also, it took one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history along with a massive tsunami wave to put the plant out of commission. Cut corners or not, I'd say that's pretty impressive for a 40 year old building.
If it wasn't for the tsunami the plant would have been fine.
The tsunami knocked out the backup system, the earthquake alone would have just shut down the plant.
And that's where the human stupidity factor comes in.
The entire country is known for tsunamis and earthquakes. So where do they put a nuclear power plant? Right on the coast so it's sure to be hit by a tsunami sooner or later. Add in constant earthquakes in the area, and it's simply a roll of the dice for when it will happen in combination.
And new generation plants? Like the French ones who were dumping radioactivity into the rivers every week for a month a year ago?
All nuclear safety is a lie. It's an oxymoron and an impossibility. Accidents will happen, it's just a matter of time, and when they do, the Death Material will spread. There isn't even a way to clean the byproducts of this kind of energy production. You cannot have nuclear safety if the fuel you have used can't even be safely disposed of. People need to stop fooling themselves so they believe their world is safer than it actually is.
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There are games like that. Freelancer, for one. It's rather old so if you don't have it you'll probably have to find it at a place that sells used software, or it might even be on an abandonware site by now.
There's also one called Allegiance I think that's purely free. Might be in LHammond's Free Multiplayer Games thread.
Thanks for the tip. I've heard a tiny bit about Freelancer. I'll have to check out that thread, too. Thanks!
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Eve Online doesn't belong in the Space Sim genre (if that's the genre Tie Fighter and X-Wing are in..) as it's not a space sim. It's an MMO like any other, except it's in space. The combat is not a "simulator", it's a turn-based MMO made to look like it's real-time. Essentially the space sim genre is about your skill actually flying your space ship where as Eve Online isn't, for the most part. Yes, there's a skill to speed tanking ships, knowing when and where to drop bombs, etc., but it's not on the same par as flying a ship in a Space sim game.
Hopefully you understand the difference.
Ah, I see. Well, that's a big difference then. I was under the impression that Eve Online was more real-time, flying ships, fighting, etc, more on the lines of X-Wing and Tie-Fighter as I would dearly love to have something like that again in modern form. Thanks, man.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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I think what Dark0ne meant about Eve Online is that it hasn't been neglected. It was one of the 1st MMO's I think and it is still going strong. From what I'm told, there are people playing in there since the beginning. It also isn't a game you buy, sit down and just start playing around and blowing things up. With careful planning, you "might" get some descent craft in a few months. And if you take a pot shot at a seemingly defenseless mining craft, be prepared to be hunted down ruthlessly by his coalition...to the point of not being able to undock your spaceship without being instantly exploded by bounty hunters because you have a bounty on your head. hehehe.
ah, okay. I guess that's a very dynamic difference, indeed, from X-Wing. Thanks for the info!
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However, there is the Modified 4GB Launcher for NVSE, post number 38.
I've been using it a while now and have had no problems.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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Xenophobic yes, they are not sexist though...
Don't know about xenophobic, but elements of the Japanese legal system look sexist though.
The definition of rape in Japan is limited to vaginal penetration by a penis, therefore excluding forced oral and anal penetration and penetration by any other object, as well as rape of men. Forced penetration of these kinds is downgraded to indecent assault (see Appendix 1b). These laws have remained basically unchanged apart from a few minor changes since they were promulgated in 1907 (Shiraishi, 2006: 242).But doesn't that mean that you couldn't even rape a man? Legally speaking?
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Wizard, it's too bad I don't find Japanese women generally attractive, because after a few drinks I will walk up to the hottest super model you've seen and starting being friendly. I'de own that place.
Yes, and you might very well have success at it, too. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
Balancing it out, though, is a common tendency among the girls to like very effeminate/ambiguous, non-threatening men...http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/confused.gif The guys that work in the host clubs/bars are right out of '70's Bowie-ish transgenderism and the early '80's poofy-hair glam rock scene, by the look of them. not my thing at all, really, but there you go.
There's a lot of sexual intimidation in Japan...and they also have a dramatic and plummeting birth rate, one that might very well cause (without immigration or next generation robots) a great national crisis in the next few generations.
I worry for Japan. They're right to put a lot of emphasis on making babies. They need them.
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There was a very publicized UFO fly-over of Washington D.C. in 1952.
This event was described by Philip J. Corso, a lieutenant-colonel in the Army who worked in R&D in the Pentagon and for President Eisenhower's National Security Council. He says some material got out.
Like this?
And this video perhaps?
Fun food for thought. Fun, regardless.
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Here's some science. I had a theory. That you were actually still interested in this thread even if you said you weren't. I wrote to you without replying to your post, knowing you would read it on a thread that had "lost your interest" and thereby prove my theory. You did, and I was proved right. You're being duplicitous, my friend. I caught your hand in the cookie jar, just like your beliefs where your scientific method should be.
Sounds like one of those diabolical alien traps if you ask me....phazers on stun.http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4781/marvinthemartian2.gif
(hahahahttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif)
Oh, crap. My cover is blown!
Indred! They've figured me out. Call the Mothership to get my butt out of here before the Reptiles (or the local mammals) get a hold of me! If I end up Wright-Patterson again, I might never get out! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/woot.gif
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Yeah you're right it's indeed very unscientific to be ever doubtful of ones own established views and theories.
The reason why I posed those questions is very simple: I wanted to know what other would think of such things. I wanted to hear the opinions of others that's all.
Also, if I'd already be able to answer those question with absolute 100% certainty, I wouldn't even bother asking them would I?
Do you never go out and have a debate about your views? Or are absolutely certain that your own opinion is always the right one?
If so, fine. So be it. Think my methods are weak? Fine, so be it. I can live with that. If have but to respect your opinion.
You don't come across as doubtful of your own way of looking at things when you tell a traumatized someone to their face that you don't believe them. That's not very scientific. You don't know anything about that case. You don't even know who you're saying that to on an anonymous forum, you just related it to your own personal life experience and that was that. Sure, you left open the possibility that there was more to it, as many scientists do, but that's always the same, too. That's just a kind of moral scapegoat because it's obvious that you don't believe it's anything else than what you've experienced in your life, and that's the problem. Belief.
Scientists shouldn't ever talk of belief, imo. It's unscientific. Belief is for priests. And that's the real problem for today's scientist (*not necessarily including you in this, what you said could have been a slip of the tongue*). Most scientists these days are actually priests in lab coats.
Very few people study ontology. Too few people. And it's insufficient.
Being skeptical of anything "out of the ordinary" is very unscientific. If that was the leading theory of scientific discovery, nothing new would ever be discovered. No new theories to pave the way, nothing. New discoveries are exactly that, out of the ordinary, because it's the ordinary that is already discovered.
Take this case. In this case, you seem to not know where you end and the impersonal data begins. Since you dismissed someone's traumatized account of an alien/weird encounter, you wouldn't even examine it, would you? No, of course not, because you've already dismissed it as a "bad dream". See? No new discoveries because you already "knew" the answer (probably knew).
In truth, what you know is only yourself-as-well-as-you-know-it and you actually have no real reason to dismiss anyone's experiences, especially since you haven't even examined them. You're acting on belief, you even said so, not data that relates to that case because you don't actually have any. Like most nay-sayers, I might add.
So, if you don't actually examine a case and then pretend to the scientific method, I have to call your bluff. That's not science. That's belief.
Here's some science. I had a theory. That you were actually still interested in this thread even if you said you weren't. I wrote to you without replying to your post, knowing you would read it on a thread that had "lost your interest" and thereby prove my theory. You did, and I was proved right. You're being duplicitous, my friend. I caught your hand in the cookie jar, just like your beliefs where your scientific method should be.
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The posts in this thread have been taking me on an emotional roller-coaster ride. Yah, the good old days, boo the loss of space sims, yeah the resurgence, eep! problems with the remakes...!!
I love space sims, but I have a question on what Dark0ne said. Why doesn't Eve Online count?http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/confused.gif I don't know much about it, but it seems interesting. Is it so different or something, than the x-wing variety?
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So, I've never played a Sims game before, and never paid much attention to them. Can't get into games that parallel the "real" world.
But the Sims going medieval? Has anybody here played it? Opinions?
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I think there are a lot of problems when someone tries to parallel Japanese culture to Western culture. This is a good example.
At the risk of making broad, sweeping remarks, let me start off by saying I'm going to be making broad sweeping remarks.
I think most people severely underestimate how intimidated a very large portion of Japanese men/boys are in regards to women. Example. I was watching a documentary on Japanese girls dancing hip-hop together in a club that they'd set up, shaking their money-makers and all what have you. Whoo-boy, what a sight.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif And you know what? There wasn't a single Japanese man in the whole club. The girls were even remarking upon it themselves, and why, did they say, were there no Japanese guys watching them dance all sexy and hot? Because they were too intimidated to come and watch them.
Other examples? Ever seen actual street footage of the young girls that offer their dating services to high-school and older men? As paid girlfriends on a dinner date for a night? It's hilarious. You should see how many guys avert their eyes with embarrassed looks and run away. ha!
So, it's only natural that the image of a young, inexperienced girl--and I'll leave it at that, because most of them as they are depicted, or as they are in real life, are not pre-pubescent, nowhere close, and have way too many curves to be near 12 years old--is very attractive sexually. She isn't intimidating.
The whole (broad sweeping, etc etc) female scene is youngified, childified, for exactly these reasons. They don't want *little girls*...they want curvy girls that aren't threatening and it's as simple as that.
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Some classic abduction tales, and not always hostile "abductions", either, have the human involved taken to another planet.
As for BlackRampage...you don't seem to study the history of science too well if you aren't capable of actually answering at least some of your own questions. Why would aliens abduct humans? I don't know...why did Darwin abduct all those little canaries?
Your kung-fu is pretty weak. Oh, sorry. Your "scientific method"...http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
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"We should stop running away from radiation"...?...?! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/wallbash.gif
That's the most blatant piece of pro-nuclear propaganda I've read in a while. It reads like something out of the 1950's, or better yet, the turn of the century, when doctors were making radioactive water for you to drink that would cure all your ills, take all your tooth pain away...until your jaw fell off (true story).
I suggest whoever wrote that article go buy a house near the Fukushima reactor and live there for the rest of his/her life, since it's relatively safe compared to everything else, like "having a visit to a hospital and getting an x-ray".
There was even concrete, outright misinformation there. I think the palliative "don't worry, there's no iodine" at the Fukushima reactors is a bit betrayed by the fact that radioactive iodine levels are many thousands of times higher than acceptable in the ambient/sea now. So where did the iodine come from, then? Santa Claus?
And what self-respecting journalist relies on...get this...official Russian government statistics! Holy crap in a handbag, you want to tell me that only a handful of people have died from that nightmare? I've watched easy-to-find documentaries of guys that were there saying everyone they knew there had died, including the pilots who were flying over the place.
Boy oh boy, I think I'll just stop now before I start giving suggestions to what should be done to "people" that mislead their fellow man in such a way.
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You are all crazy conspiracy theorists!
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Very interesting series of videos you point out there, Harbringe. I'll be sure to check them out, thanks.
I've known the Founding Fathers' take on banking. it's a disgrace, as Americans, that we've let happen exactly what they said not to.
It's shameful, really, that the study of American history is so inefficient. Those textbooks are about the most boring books one ever has to read in school, and I love history, so...*blech*. The way the whole material is taught is just insufficient to arouse any kind of real interest. Bart sums it up when he puts all of himself into studying and he gets as far as, "Cotton Mathers--" and he falls asleep.
Also, the material is deliberately misleading. If the material were taught correctly, kids would know that the Revolutionary War, the very reason why the country exists in the first place, was fought first and foremost to free the colonists from central banking interests!http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/pirate.gif They would know, then, that it was the manipulation of bankers on English parliament that strangled the colonists' livelihood by drastically (50%) reducing the money supply and introducing poverty and unemployment where previously there was none (the words of Benjamin Franklin) and forced their hand into war so that they might free themselves from the evil bankers.
The Revolutionary War was not fought for tea taxes or stamp taxes or any crap like that that they teach in schools. That's a lie. The war was fought to free the colonies from tyrannical bank rule. The Founding Fathers warned us to stay away from central banks, and now what do we have? The Federal Reserve, which isn't federal at all.
*coughcoughsecondcoughammendmentcoughcough*
*okay, big breath, and....* sorry for the rant. I think bankers are the biggest monsters we have on this planet. If the lazy American populace doesn't wake up, there won't be any rights left in the Bill of Rights. They are all there for a reason, and we're doing a damn poor job of enforcing the 'shall not be infringed' part.
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Overwhelming support for our most prolific non-human entity. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/turned.gif
And no, I"m not trying to troll it up or anything, this is just a comment on the reticence I was expecting from such an interesting OP. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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If there are aliens, who says that they will be anything at all like humans? They could a completely different perception of the universe, perhaps even of the laws of physics. After all, everything humans "know" could all be a product of our perception of the universe, and any potential aliens could perceive the universe in a way so different to our own perception of the universe, they could be living on this planet without knowing about us or anything we think is true, and vice-versa.
Its unlikely that different parts of the universe have different laws of physics.
Its is extremely unlikely.
In fact if different parts of the universe have different laws of physics the big bang wouldn't make any sense along with a lot of other things.
I wouldn't be surprised, however, if there are paradoxes within the structure, little *'s and a bunch of fine print somewhere on the Universal Charter.
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So I'm getting the impression that those on this site that understand what the FED is either think it's OK or that there is no chance of even auditing it? I have been studying history, philosophy, religion, economics and politics since high school out of personal intellectual interests and the last decade or so has started to convince me that in many ways the extreme left and extreme right in this country are correct in a few key points. The main point is that Wall Street controls the USA and is tilting the playing field against the middle class and the poor through currency manipulation and possible flat out fraud and theft on a global scale. So someone talk me down from the ledge here, how is this not true? Are not Goldman Sachs, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernake doing more harm than good and using out own government as the tool?
The issue is that people blame the wrong people.
We blame Obama or Bush, when really it is the people who control the senators and possibly the entire white house.
Stupendously correct, marharth!
I just watched a wonderful documentary called Inside Job, which goes into undeniable depth on how the home lending market was allowed to go "bubble and boom" by everyone involved, even just a handful of people at the top at a time so they could rake in millions while the masses suffered, and not only for their own stupidity in buying a house they couldn't afford as an almost countless slew of other interests (state pension plans, etc) were tied into these things.
The result of which (this last bubble and burst, that is) had much the same effect that the crash back in '30 had...JP Morgan consolidated ever more their stranglehold on the world financial scheme.
These people have to be held accountable...not given g-d jobs in the Obama administration, proving once again the man is just a puppet figurehead and the only thing different about him is the color of his skin.
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So, some of the latest words of Stephen Hawking on the subject of visiting aliens' benevolence I took off a page talking about some interview he's done for a Discovery show:
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said.
If aliens in space ships did come to Earth, Hawking suggests, they may be more "V" than "E.T." "Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," he said, arguing that they may have taken to the stars because they depleted resources on their home world.
Personally, I've never understood how people think that advanced technology equals advanced wisdom.
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Sorry haven't read the entire thread but Champions Online is now free and Age of Conan has a non-time-limited free trail version
Whoah, thanks for the heads-up, man http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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The Mob Rules.
How will WW3 start?
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Because you're a Kiwi!
Right? Hahahahaha. I keep squirreling away ideas for my house under the Long White Cloud.