Duck and Cover

US Department of Labor Unless specifically exempted, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay. . For what it's worth I agree with you. However I seem to remember that re...

How constructive.

You guys *are* joking right?

I cant really tell because it isn't funny, in fact it's bordering on pretty despicable.

if any of you have ever heard the word Lockerbie you'll know what happens to a large passenger aircraft when it hits a building. there is always a shitload of debris from the plane, granted aviation fuel burns fast and melts almost everything, there would still be a recognisable outline of the wing...

The point is not that the military doesn't produce high tech goodies. The point is that money that's being blown on pointless military nonsense like missile shields and Iraq would be far better spent with NASA. You know as well as I do that research into military applications would continue even if...

Ever heard of spin-off technologies? The money NASA has used has resulted in quite a few advances in a number of different technologies. Let's go over a brief list, shall we? Not a comprehensive one at all. Laser Angioplasty - Vaporizes coronary artery blockage without damaging arterial walls. Deve...

Hey, either you're launching rockets into the air or missiles. What's the difference? And shit, would you care to tell me how 'wasting' $260 million on this (NASA guys were able to recover most of the collected sample by the way) compares to blowing $90 billion on the missile defense shield that do...

Kashluk wrote: BTW, can I somehow fuck it up? I mean, causing the whole CPU (or more!) to become unoperational?

Well it's never happened to me but I hear you can fracture or snap the CPU when remounting the heatsink.

Is there any chance you could send the G-Card back and demand a new working one?

ANY knowledge about the universe we live in is worth the trouble. I fucking hate assholes who say the US should cut NASA's budget to pay for social programs. Assholes, cut MILITARY spending for social programs. Space exploration is way more important than either one. That's right, fuck the poor, we...

Next time I get it wrong, remind me beforehand, and I'll make sure I put it down as 85. OK?

You dont seem to have understood my point. It is the governments responsibility to make sure the photos do not become public no matter who took them or distributed them. It's like a psychiatrist who has information on a patient, it doesn't matter who steals, copies or takes the information he is co...

However I do believe that you have certain responsibilities when you take prisoners. It could have been that the government was in the wrong because they are responsible for making sure that those photos are not released to the public, in which they failed. The government took did not take the leak...

HOWEVER, the public humiliation of prisoners is agains the Geneva Convention. Again, the U.S. government isn't responsible there, as private media corporations released the photos to the public. However I do believe that you have certain responsibilities when you take prisoners. It could have been ...

When ia Shaun of the Dead coming out here in the US? I have been following it for quite awhile also is it out on dvd in the UK? I have a dvd player that will recognize PAL coded dvd's which is pretty awesome when it comes to getting things ahead of time like the UK edition of John Carpenters THEY L...

boywoos wrote:This is an amazing film, Simon Pegg is fucking hilarious. Did anyone ever see him in Spaced?

yes.

When you create an electronic device that is vital to a population's survival, and it's supposed to survive Nuclear Attack you made damn sure that it isn't knocked out by EM attack, or the game's over before the show starts. Hardened electronics or more prefereably vacuum tubes and simple circuitry...

Well when they toss a SPACE SHUTTLE into a Fallout game, yeah, yeah I do seem to know better than the designers. As for the rest--hey, it's Science ! not science. The point is that there's no transistors in Fallout--only vacuum tubes. I mean, if there were transistors, why the fuck would vacuum tub...

The complexity of Fallout robots is debatable. Look at Mr. Handy. I doubt he does all that much. Today, we can make really small robots about the size of of a breadbox that can vacuum your house intelligently. In the Fallout world, it takes a big 'ol robot to perform simple tasks like that. As for ...

I'd assume before, though I dont think it's mentioned directly in the article. He talks about continued space research before the bombs dropped not after. From the article: "in the 73 years between now and the bombs dropping you'd think that there would be continued research in space exploratio...

The PipBoy mainly just stored things and like Spazmo said, it was mostly a big calender and watch. It would have to have been reasonably sized because it used a monochrome green CRT for it's display. Notice that nothing in Fallout uses LCDs at all, and CRTs are on their way out in terms of today's ...