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by khms
Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Update?
Replies: 37
Views: 53794

Re: Update?

Ick. What you need is a battle suit, of course. With a well-educated AI that knows just how you are supposed to move, and properly adjusts for the terrain... They never talk about how useful they'd be for physical therapy in the various SF genres that feature them. Well, not therapy exactly, but th...
by khms
Sun May 25, 2014 10:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Serious update.
Replies: 48
Views: 49344

Re: Serious update.

Earlier today I ended up with first and second degree burns on most of my left hand...and it was a relatively silly kitchen accident. I slipped while carrying a bowl of boiling-hot soup, and when my knee hit the floor, I tilted the bowl and spilled most of it over my hand. If you've ever suffered a...
by khms
Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ERB
Replies: 8
Views: 10617

Re: ERB

The only rap that I have found "good" is the two Keynes vs Hayek videos on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc Incidentally, I see lots of comments there that seem to think Hayek is the clear winner ... all I can say is that to me...
by khms
Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ERB
Replies: 8
Views: 10617

Re: ERB

The only rap that I have found "good" is the two Keynes vs Hayek videos on youtube: Here's another, though it probably loses a lot if you don't speak German (or rather, if you don't understand fast German). It's the "pensioner's rap", making fun of current fashion trends (especi...
by khms
Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:27 pm
Forum: Subjugation Universe
Topic: Low-born vs High-born
Replies: 10
Views: 10704

Re: Low-born vs High-born

recall Jason believing that Gora was a woman due to his name You don't need Faey for that kind of confusion. A rather common example is Andrea: in German (for example), that'd be a female name - in Italian, it's a male name. (The German male version is Andreas. No idea if Italian has a female versi...
by khms
Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:04 pm
Forum: Subjugation Universe
Topic: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]
Replies: 10
Views: 12769

Re: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]

A: In the sentence "Theoretically he is correct' I was meaning Fel, not khms and the sentence should have continued, with; "Theoretically he is correct in part, but not in full." Raises eybrow like Spock B: Tidal effects are NOT the same as 'if two bodies are so close that their diam...
by khms
Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:01 am
Forum: Subjugation Universe
Topic: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]
Replies: 10
Views: 12769

Re: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]

Theoretically he is correct, He who? however, both of you seem to have forgotten the tidal effects of a multiple (two) body system Actually, that's a close relative to if two bodies are so close that their diameter is not much smaller than their distance - or maybe I should say the effect is even l...
by khms
Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:26 pm
Forum: Subjugation Universe
Topic: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]
Replies: 10
Views: 12769

Re: Inception, Chapter 1 [Spoilers]

I'm a bit irritated by the orbital mechanics there: The two planets orbited one another around a fixed imaginary point between them rather than one orbiting the other, which was what made the phenomenon so exceedingly rare. Systems like that became unstable very quickly in the measuring of time in a...
by khms
Sat May 25, 2013 8:50 am
Forum: Subjugation
Topic: Secession, chapter 9.
Replies: 58
Views: 73541

Re: Secession, chapter 9.

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. ― Thomas Jefferson Misattributed The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson; first reported in Matt Carson, On A Hill T...
by khms
Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How did you learn about Fel/Sennadar?
Replies: 67
Views: 71422

Re: How did you learn about Fel/Sennadar?

Gmail to the rescue ;-) This mail (and the follow-ups) sent me first to weavespinner.net, then here (because the old URLs didn't work at the time ... I'm assuming I came to Weavespinner via Google): To: <warlords_erotic_stories@yahoogroups.com> From: "Phantom" <Phantom2041@cox.net> Date: T...
by khms
Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:48 pm
Forum: Subjugation Universe
Topic: Secession - Chapter 4
Replies: 26
Views: 27202

Re: Secession - Chapter 4

SO the faey agressive tendacies are sublimated in to making lots and lots of money.[...] THe thing is the skaa are an agressive race, but they wont be able to conquer any one new. So what will this mean for them now? The Faey are an aggressive species. So are the Skaa. And so are Humans. Hasn't sto...
by khms
Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Mayan Prediction
Replies: 37
Views: 38692

Re: The Mayan Prediction

Just like how all the computers would crash and there would be no electricity for y2K. Its a lot of hype to get people scared and ... make them pay programmers to fix their software, so the possible catastrophic events don't happen. Which was very successful (and there was a lot of work involved), ...
by khms
Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Mayan Prediction
Replies: 37
Views: 38692

Re: The Mayan Prediction

Most folks have heard that the Mayans predicted that the world would end on December 21st, 2012. I don't believe them, so I've been arranging a little celebration and a small surprise for December 22. Just keep your eyes open 2 weeks from tomorrow. :wink: KP The Mayans predicted the end of the worl...