adsii1970 Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 11 hours ago, cubinator said: Darth Vader rules with an iron fist. figuratively and literally... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Hmm, so what would be stronger, Vader’s cybernetic limb attachments (without the Force) or a T-800 endoskeleton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 39 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: Hmm, so what would be stronger, Vader’s cybernetic limb attachments (without the Force) or a T-800 endoskeleton? In the absence of any other data, the T-800. Because the T-800 is a whole unit, whereas Vader's prosthetic limbs are attached to flesh, an obvious weakpoint. Arm wrestling a T800 would be like arm wrestling a jaws-of-life. Arm wrestling Vader (sans force) would be like wrestling a jaws-of-life being held by a man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 When OB-1 Kenobee was having a melee against Darthy, they were more or less equal, when pushing each other's schwartzs swords. So, either Kenobee was such strong, or Vader was such weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: So, either Kenobee was such strong, or Vader was such weak. They were using the force, though, so physical strength didn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, razark said: They were using the force, though, so physical strength didn't matter. Then maybe he was doing that always? Spoiler Edited March 14, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Some words look wrong when in all caps. "forest" - Everything is OK here. "FOREST" - FO REST? FORE ST? Shouldn't there be two R's in that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said: Some words look wrong just the first part sometimes. queue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) 20 minutes ago, qzgy said: queue.... The only word (I know of) that sounds the same after removing all vowels AND after removing 80% of the letters. Edited March 17, 2019 by 5thHorseman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) What is a diminutive for queue? A small queue? queueie? P.S. And a verb for "to make the queue smaller"? to queueieify? Edited March 18, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 6 hours ago, kerbiloid said: What is a diminutive for queue? A small queue? queueie? P.S. And a verb for "to make the queue smaller"? to queueieify? As a Brit, I am born with a genetic expertise on queuing. I can inform you that the concept of a "diminutive" form of the word makes no logical sense. A queue of any length is always too long. Whether its a 3-hour queue of 3000 people or a 60-s queue of 3 people, the correct reaction on seeing it is always "Ugh, look at the queue". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, p1t1o said: I am born with a genetic expertise on queuing. An expert queueexpert Edited March 18, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: An expert queuer *ahem* the term is queuestician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 29 minutes ago, p1t1o said: *ahem* the term is queuestician. As I'm not sure if I said something wrong, replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAL59 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Consoler Troi is not very useful, and is likely just faking her telepathic abilities. She never makes any insights that are not extremely obvious to non telepaths, and sounds like a horoscope. Telling the captain that the crew is afraid when the ship is about to explode isnt very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Why is she on the bridge ayway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Girls in Star Trek are there to show their behinds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted March 20, 2019 Author Share Posted March 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Green Baron said: Girls in Star Trek are there to show their behinds. I think we all know who the real sex symbol was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 6 hours ago, Shpaget said: Why is she on the bridge ayway? Maybe a mascot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRS Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Bad guys are Dumb, no matter how Smart they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 1 hour ago, GRS said: Bad guys are Dumb, no matter how Smart they are. My friend and I (and most of his co-workers) had a long discussion once about how we should all be happy that the vast majority of criminals are remarkably stupid. [Insert obligatory Dunning-Kruger reference here.] We wound up the conversation by concocting a rather viable scheme for stealing an arbitrarily large sum of money (ours was $100,000,000, but this was 25 years ago) from a banking institution in a way that you would actually be able to use it afterwards. It was...enlightening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barzon Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 That sounds really interesting! Care for a follow up with some details? @TheSaint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 52 minutes ago, Barzon Kerman said: That sounds really interesting! Care for a follow up with some details? @TheSaint? No, actually. One of the things we agreed on at the end of the conversation is that it wasn't the sort of thing we wanted to be spreading around, since we had already established at the start of the conversation that we liked our criminals stupid uneducated. Besides, the scheme relied on a lot of obscure banking laws that I believe have changed significantly in the last 25 years. I don't know if it would actually work anymore. And, furthermore, it was not a kind, lighthearted scheme. While it didn't involve murder directly, it was there as a contingency. And it did involve kidnapping and many threats of physical violence. If you were to make a movie out of it, it would not be a comedy. Not the sort of things to dwell on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 In the todays world of digital money, shenanigans involving banking are surprizingly rare, but I remember a story about a banking system admin (or something similar) who made a script that transfered all the money from all the bank customers to his own debit account just before closing time and return it in the morning. Apparently, the miniscule passive interest for funds in your account gets calculated at midnight, so he collected all the interest from all the customers. Since it's such a small amount for each customer, that usually dissapears in the noise, it went unnoticed for a while. He got caught when one morning the main server did not boot up properly and his script didn't return the money. The bank started getting confused calls from the customers and only then found out what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Guys may have gotten away with stuff like that in the early days of digital banking, but not these days. I've been employed by several companies that were large enough or specifically positioned to fall under the purview of government financial regulation (Sarbanes-Oxley, BSA, RICO, etc.). It's draconian. And, amusingly, aimed mostly at the "little people" in companies who are completely incapable of carrying out the scale of corporate malfeasance that precipitated these sorts of laws in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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