Holy shit that description reads like the journalist who "got ptsd" from shooting a rifle...
It creates a shockwave, and since the big boom is a big fireball, it uses up all the oxygen.
In other words, "This bomb explodes, big BIGGER"
I'm being hyperbolic for comedic effect, but I found it funny how they worded it.
Sweet!
I've never been able to get into them, but I'm definitely buying this as a gift for someone.
Idk how hard water coding is, but I imagine it's hard since good looking water seems rare.
That is some damn fine looking water
Excellent shots.
.... In the MIDDLE of my BACKSWING???
You should come down to transporter room 3, the pattern buffer has something you'd find interesting....
I felt something die inside me when I realized "display settings" was going way too far into technical territory for most people.
All I was trying to do is tell someone why their screen shuts off "so quickly" after two minutes.
I had to send them step by step pictures with big red circles.
And this was someone I had thought to be intelligent enough to figure something out, and tech-minded enough to know what I was talking about. Turns out they just like buying whatever fancy new gadgets they see in commercials.
My first thought was "So we call 'following the law' a loophole now?"
If the law meant a fucking thing, he would have been in prison decades ago.
Here's the one that convinced my dad that connecting everything is bad:
Your smart fridge knows what's inside and knows you just added a 12 pack of soda and donuts to the shopping list. They sell that data to a bunch of companies, including your insurance company. They know you have diabetes.
Your insurance rates just went up for the fifth time this year because your insurance company knows what you're eating.
And it's a good thing you don't drink beer or your car insurance would have gone up 'due to increased risk factors.' too bad you wanted to buy a new car this year.
Not only can you not afford it now, the price went up because they know you want a car. I'm sure they would make a payment deal with you though.
And every company will know all about the deal, the beer, the donuts, and all it took was sending money to whatever company had the information, and they were more than happy to sell it.
The more we allow companies to freely operate like this without regulation and without proper punishment for breaking the rules, we will continue sliding toward the hellscape of Ferenginar. For the non trekkies, it's a hyper-capitalist species of profit-driven assholes.
Nationalist Christians?
Hmm.... We should come up with a word for that.
How about Nat-Cs?
They wear their title proudly. Openly admit it in the streets.
And yet for some reason, are allowed to continue to operate freely.
Our country goes to war for less.
Edit: A friend of mine got this shoved in their mailbox today
Totally not domestic terrorists...
My life has been directly, negatively impacted by Christian extremism far more than Islamic extremism.
So far I have yet to enter a clinic that has been damaged by a Muslim's molotov because someone is doing a thing that they think their special book says not to do.
All religion is incompatible with civilized society as long as there are those who would twist it into a cudgel to beat down the nonbelievers.
If you think that Islam is somehow worse than others, not only are you misinformed of current issues the world over, you are also misinformed about history in general.