I Had A Random Thought...

[Tori]

Some people prefer to watch live streams and some prefer to listen. It would depend on people.

[SecretAsianMan]

You know that thing in movies/tv shows where someone is threatening another person by pointing a gun at them, the person pointing the gun tells the other person to do something, that person hesitates, then the person with the gun emphasizes their threat by cocking the gun?  When I was a kid, I always wondered why was the gun not cocked before?  I know many guns use double action triggers (pulling the trigger also cocks the hammer) and that cocking the gun manually means the trigger is easier to pull, but this still bothers me and seems like a thing the average movie viewer isn't likely to know.  Plus, in the case of single action triggers, it means you couldn't fire the gun at all before.  In a way it's like threatening to run someone over, except you haven't started the car yet.

 

On a similar note, indicating you are ready for action by pulling back the slide on a handgun or pumping a shotgun bothers me too.  I want to see a round pop out because the gun was cycled.

[dibs]

THese are the kind of questions that get you killed.

[Dewar]

I wonder if anyone has ever sat around and seriously tried to design a computer system that could take over the world, Skynet style. Not like back of a napkin in a restaurant, but actually put serious time and money into it.

[Zeusthecat]

I wonder if anyone has ever sat around and seriously tried to design a computer system that could take over the world, Skynet style. Not like back of a napkin in a restaurant, but actually put serious time and money into it.

 

I think there's this thing called Facebook that might qualify.

[clyde]

I wonder if anyone has ever sat around and seriously tried to design a computer system that could take over the world, Skynet style. Not like back of a napkin in a restaurant, but actually put serious time and money into it.

There is no doubt in my mind that multiple people have and are doing this. No individual can fathom the reality that is seven billion lives going about the world 24 hours a day. With those kinds of numbers, you can depend on everyone using every possible technology for every possible motive. It's like a Jehova's Witness told me when I informed him that there had been a female pope, "It's a big world, over time many things happen."

[Gormongous]

It's like a Jehova's Witness told me when I informed him that there had been a female pope, "It's a big world, over time many things happen."

 

... But there hasn't ever been a female pope.

[clyde]

... But there hasn't ever been a female pope.

Full disclosure: I'm intoxicated and have committed  to that thread. But I am accepting this opportunity as a possible reason to stretch my personal policy.

DAMN IT GORMONGOUS! This is why we can't have nice things.

I read about Pope Joan in a book I stole from a public library dumpster before I had access to the internet and have never questioned the reading (possibly due to the interesting reactions I got while disseminating the "knowledge"). Now that you (a scholar that has studied medieval Europe) have taken a moment to dissent, I looked it up on Wikipedia.

 

For what it is worth: I want to believe.

 

I suppose this means that they don't have a hole in the inaugural throne where they make sure the new pope has testicles by grabbing his balls.

This has become a (somewhat) disappointing day.

 

[Gormongous]

I suppose this means that they don't have a hole in the inaugural throne where they make sure the new pope has testicles by grabbing his balls.

This has become a (somewhat) disappointing day.

 

If I remember from my comps, that legend came about because there are two stone stools in the papal palace, dating from Roman times, that have holes in the center. We don't know why. Well, I don't know why.

 

It's nothing personal, clyde. It's just that, as a historian, it's my job to drain all magic from the world.

[Merus]

Maybe I can bring a little of the magic back? There's an apostle mentioned in the Bible (Romans 16:7) named Junias. Junias is not a name found anywhere else in history except the Bible, which is highly unusual. The reason why is that Junias was never her name: early copies of the Bible refer to her as Junia, but her name was changed in later transcriptions by marking her name as masculine instead of feminine.

 

Copies of the Bible that exist today still have Junias in them, even though Biblical scholars are pretty sure that line's wrong.

[Gormongous]

Maybe I can bring a little of the magic back? There's an apostle mentioned in the Bible (Romans 16:7) named Junias. Junias is not a name found anywhere else in history except the Bible, which is highly unusual. The reason why is that Junias was never her name: early copies of the Bible refer to her as Junia, but her name was changed in later transcriptions by marking her name as masculine instead of feminine.

 

Copies of the Bible that exist today still have Junias in them, even though Biblical scholars are pretty sure that line's wrong.

 

I was feeling bad, so I went and dug up the Prophecy of the Popes, a twelfth-century (actually late sixteenth-century) list of every pope elected between Celestine II and the End of Days. According to it, the current Pope Francis, subject to the motto "Peter the Roman," will be the last pope.

[clyde]

Do not feel bad Gormongous. I love you.

 

P.S. I'm still somewhat intoxicated.
 

[osmosisch]

I've had great learning experiences watching people stream games like LoMas and tactical/ccgs. I use them mostly for background education (if you can call learning about games that) when I'm too bushed to do anything myself.

[Dewar]

Watching tactical games with an audience is fun because everyone can argue about what the next move should be.

[SecretAsianMan]

Sony has a patent for a smart wig.

 

[Dewar]

Smart in what way? Does it change color according to my mood?

[Zeusthecat]

I will finally be able to transform into a super saiyan.

[SecretAsianMan]

The patent includes the following things for the wig:

 

Camera

GPS

Ultrasound sensor

Actuators for tactile feedback (ie vibration)

Wireless communication

Remote control

Position sensor

Laser pointer

[Dewar]

Finally, laser hair.

[Merus]

Device 2: Audio/Visual Capture Device. Output transmitted to Device 4.

[Squid Division]

Ultrasound sensor

 

So the wig can see through wombs?

[dibs]

So the wig can see through wombs?

It's to see your dick like the Kinect can. Sony won't let MS have a monolopy on entertainment devices seeing your goolies.

[melmer]

I've just realised with the aid of Siri I just talk into my iPad and it changes what if they into text which is which is greater than ever type anything more fantastic Pablo blah Lala long

[tegan]

I've just realised with the aid of Siri I just talk into my iPad and it changes what if they into text which is which is greater than ever type anything more fantastic Pablo blah Lala long

 

eat up martha

[melmer]

haha, Somehow I've never seen that episode :-/