Recent content by Atomic Skull

I'm pretty sure John Conquest is a denizen of a certain site with over 9000 members. If you frequent a particular board which loves reag and the vidya then the feel of his content will seem very familiar.

I continue to be amused by how people still think Anonymous is a group by the usual definition of such. It's a leaderless swarm not some organization. Someone proposes an idea like this and either people will latch onto this or they won't. That's how Anonymous makes "decisions", by how many...

You sure about that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_%28son_of_Jacob%29

They're not talking about your PC's network adapter's IP, they mean the IP used by your DSL or cable modem. Your internet provider keeps a record of which modem was using what IP addresses at what time and they can cross reference that with which modem belongs to which customer (they have to in...

Mars's core cooled 4 billion years ago so there is no vulcanism on mars (or a magnetic field to protect you from the solar wind either)

A nuclear thermal rocket would let you get to mars in about 3 months, electric thrusters powered by a nuclear reactor even less than that. Problem is, everyone is scared of nuclear power so they keep talking about chemical rockets that will require years to reach their destination...

Guild Wars is an online multiplayer game like PSO not a true MMO.

They're assuming that integrated graphics will catch up to consoles but the flaw in their reasoning is that there will be no new consoles released between now and 2014. Consoles are popular because people want to just buy a game and play it. The vast majority of console players will not...

That's easy, they steal everything they need or want from other people. Isn't that more like an incentive than a deterrent?

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In america they would never get away with that. The SWAT team would be called out and an attitude adjustment would be administered. If you assualt a cop in the US and they have to call for backup, the backup is bringing an ass-kicking with them.

Conflict with China is pretty much inevitable. Hopefully technology + nuclear deterrence will make open war impossible at least.

China, when they preemptively attack in about 25 years give or take.

I'm old enough to have realized that marriage is a lightness black pit of despair. Yes, it really is the end of your life as you know it. Marriage sucks, don't do it.

He didn't else he wouldn't have made that comment that Vince should just sit down with Catherine and explain things to her to break it off. Vince *does* try that and it doesn't end well, at first she's like "oh ok you can see her on the side I guess" and then when it becomes apparent she's...