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- 2018-05-26 03:36pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
What is bayoneting a block of wood going to do? They won't look pretty with the puncture in them, but they don't have any blood or organs to worry about. Even things like shrapnel, hydrostatic shock, etc, won't mean a thing to them. I'm sure cannons would be devastating if they struck one directly, ...
- 2018-05-26 03:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9374
Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Well, anything is possible, but Tesla/Musk certainly are guilty of lying to their auditors in the past: Tesla has failed to report some worker injuries at its California factory on legally mandated reports, which helped make “the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are,” accordin...
- 2018-05-21 09:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9374
Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
Back in 2011 when the veneer hadn't peeled off Musk's Potemkin village facade yet? Yeah... I reserve the right to be skeptical. Without knowing more about how or what exactly it is that NASA verified, it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility that they accepted wildly fraudulent figures from Musk ...
- 2018-05-21 09:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9374
Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
I guess based on Tesla's financial performance, it raises the highly pertinent question as to whether or not SpaceX actually did anything that a government agency couldn't have already done themselves if they took a notion to doing so, and whether or not SpaceX's rates on payloads aren't an illusion...
- 2018-05-21 07:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9374
Re: ULA workers strike over latest contract offer
No, Musk is absolutely /the/ bullshit artist of our age Tesla currently has 2.67 billion in cash. About 1.1 billion of this is in loans that need to be returned early next year Around 40% of their cash in hand is from refundable deposits, from people who thought they would get a $35k car Tesla cann...
- 2018-05-21 07:27pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
There's no stock of magic wood in this scenario, I'm removing that restriction to give Geppetto a fighting change. He needs only to put them together, and the parts can be in any state of relative completion prior to Geppetto starting work on and eventually assembling them. Obviously this doesn't me...
- 2018-05-21 06:01pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Unless Geppetto is ridiculously stupid, he should be able to figure out that he can get other puppets to prefabricate 90%-complete component parts for new puppets and put the finishing touches on them himself to bring them to life. That should cut down on production time substantially. As far as nam...
- 2018-05-21 04:35pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
Beats me. Why does Pinocchio need to eat food?
- 2018-05-21 01:03pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
It becomes more feasible when you realize that he isn't strictly averse to recruiting humans either. He's bound to seize treasure along the way that would allow him to augment his ranks with mercenaries, and there are probably plenty of disgruntled veterans of the wars of Italian unification who wou...
- 2018-05-21 12:53pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Re: Geppetto I, King of Italy
I don't see why not. Geppetto's wooden army block crossbows while he issues commands, resist all normal small arms, and generally fuck shit up. They also sail and cannot drown. All hail king Geppetto. This is 1881, the Italian army should be somewhat better armed than with just crossbows. Not enoug...
- 2018-05-21 01:26am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Venom Trailer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7168
Re: Venom Trailer
The musical theme in this trailer sounds an awful lot like Rack City. I hope this wasn't intentional, because that would be hilarious.
- 2018-05-21 12:40am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Geppetto I, King of Italy
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16375
Geppetto I, King of Italy
In 1881, an elderly woodcutter in rural Tuscany takes a notion to carve a marionette of a young boy out of wood. Astonishingly, it comes to life as a belligerent young boy whom he gives the name "Pinocchio" to, and who takes to rampaging through the small town causing serious calamity unti...
- 2017-12-09 09:58pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7598
Re: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly
Ever read Ann Coulter's very early stuff? Tepid, bland, undistinguished. Nothing that would give you the impression that this was a firebrand in the making with the power to stir the pot at the national level. Same with Tomi Lahren, who was probably better described as a liberal of some kind when he...
- 2017-12-09 02:48pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
- Replies: 40
- Views: 24323
- 2017-12-09 01:39pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
- Replies: 40
- Views: 24323
Re: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
Don't blame the studio execs; apparently this was all Tarantino's idea which he lobbied for of his own volition. If it seems like a strange fit to you, just remember that this is a man with a deep and abiding appreciation for 60's film and television aesthetics. Does anything about the Trek franchis...
- 2017-12-09 01:19pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
- Replies: 40
- Views: 24323
Re: How Are We Not Talking About This: TARANTINO R-rated Star Trek
Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Vacancy) is writing. Not Tarantino.Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2017-12-09 12:52pm I can't for the life of me think how Tarintion's styling and Star Trek are going to work together.
- 2017-12-07 02:30am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Avengers: Stupidity War
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4189
Avengers: Stupidity War
Suppose the events of the upcoming MCU Avengers film go ahead as intended based on what we do know from the trailer, but with one significant modification: Thanos has gained the support of the full cast of villains from the entire 11-season run of Aqua Teen Hunger Force to do his bidding and locate ...
- 2017-03-25 01:08pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
*sigh* but I didn't, though, did I? I was quite clear about the context and the meaning of the phrase: In contemporary use, "dowager" is commonly used as a shorthand to refer to supercillious and histronic older women, in the model of turn of the 20th century east coast socialites (Florenc...
- 2017-03-24 03:57pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
TithonusSyndrome, even if it is not a fallacy per se, substituting insults in place of an actual argument as you have just done is still bad argumentation. I have categorically not done this. The exchange in question featured two arguments, followed by an insult. Broomstick, being a coward, is in f...
- 2017-03-23 10:41pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: PacRim vs. Skull Island Monster's RAR
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6354
Re: PacRim vs. Skull Island Monster's RAR
Kong in Skull Island is around 100 feet tall. The Jaegers are around 270 feet tall. Goji2014 is More like 340 feet tall.
None of them are matched evenly for this setup.
None of them are matched evenly for this setup.
- 2017-03-23 10:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
What you are blustering incoherently about is finding an alternative to capitalism. You say that like it's a bad thing... Not at all. I just have some sense of how immense an undertaking such a subject would be, and the sense in not attempting to address it here. This is outside the scope of the cu...
- 2017-03-23 09:43pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
No, that's quite fine. Life got in the way for a bit, but I can attend to this now. ]TithonusSyndrome, you might think that it's funny to deliberately misquote someone without any reference to having made the alteration, but it really isn't. The alteration was so substantial and so self-evident it b...
- 2017-03-19 10:06pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
I'm sure a sufficiently elaborate system can be devised to allow me to make an online purchase of oranges with the specific degree of ripeness I desire, just as soon as we have a uniform scale of ripeness that everyone understands clearly, and as soon as the grocery stores decide it's actually wort...
- 2017-03-19 09:42pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
So the solution to a system designed to funnel surplus value to the 1% is less efficient practices and systems. Brilliant. Break out the steam locomotives, Broomstick has found a way to stick it to the wealthy. No, the solution is to come up with a system that doesn't stick it to everyone BUT the w...
- 2017-03-19 01:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Flippy the Burger bot
- Replies: 179
- Views: 29481
Re: Flippy the Burger bot
the fact that you don't see this as an opportunity to free up resources and improve the other side of the equation should probably prompt some reflection on your part. I live in a society where, pretty consistently this past couple decades, "freed up resources" generally only go to the 1%...