Quote from: Snowtrap on December 15, 2015, 02:27:46 AM

You are right Zonda. It is infuriating. And you gotta love how people don't look at the concept directly. Even engineers of solar panels themselves. If you remember, a little while back, there was a big hubub about this team of people creating solar tiles that they wanted to use to replace roads.

Cheap, durable, and easy to mass produce. But still, they'd never be able to replace a road. After the big hubub and the various flaws listed about the project, I assume it probably hit some slow ground and sank in the mud.

The team who worked on the concept had a good idea. Durable, cheap, and easy to produce solar panels. Why not take the concept and simplify it? Why not just make those solar panels for normal useage? Or why not find places that they could fit?

The thing with solar panels, is that they don't have the capability to produce mass amounts of power. And that's what everybody wants. They want this big centralized power source that can give them everything and output miracle amounts of power. I'd argue probably because it'd be a fantastic money maker if you controlled and regulated it.

But there's no feasible fucking reason that you can't set up some solar panels for your house to regulate a portion of the power. And there's no reason that rather than focusing on a solar farm to provide mass amounts of power, you focus on supplying the general population with the individual means to supply themselves can't e done.

How about people that like to complain that there's no sun? Two things for them. Get a fucking battery bank so you can store excess power generated by the panels on the sunny days so that you have a supply for cloudy days.

Get a windmill with an alternator attached to it. Clouds usually come with wind. Combine a small windmill with solar panels and you have a pretty good shot at replenishing a battery bank for your own power supply. Go even farther and make another windmill that catches rain and uses the weight to spin itself. Clouds usually come with rain.

Hook all three of those things up to your house and you'd be well off.

And you don't have to power a city with it. Just houses. Hospitals and big places can still use electric turbines. But imagine if every house had the ability to produce it's own power, or even a portion of it?

How much energy and strain would that take off electrical plants? A lot, no doubt.

trap, I'm pretty sure the solar freaking roadways thing was anything but cheap and the durability made them woefully inefficient because of the thickness of the glass covering.

Even if they were, no reason you can't re-engineer and re-purpose things.

600 on skating lessons for little miss. Plus the gas money for her parents to get her there and back three times a week until march. Which is another 800 or so.

250 on my brother-in-law.

40 on sis and 40 on mum. Those two are hard to shop for.

Little miss had her birthday in december too. I dropped 850 on that.

I couldn't even keep it down if I tried. I just trim everything at this point. Bad picture with a black sweater on, but whatever. Most of everything below my face in that pic is just facial hair anyway.

Fat Kid didn't even work properly in Reach. You want Galo 3 for that.

Playing Reach again
Noble team are the greatest Bullet Sponges I mean teammates a guy could ask for

Kat's ass is a flotation device.

Well, I'd be a japanese soldier and not me.

So the only answer is yes.

Quote from: Snowtrap on December 17, 2015, 12:17:57 PM

Quote from: Lemsip on December 17, 2015, 12:09:57 PM

Are people legitimately thumbless? The controls are fine after spending <1 minute in Forge.
The controls are even on the left side of the screen.

"waaah they switched LB and RB to A and B"

Not like it even matters. Forge ain't gonna take off this time around.

Sure.

It'd be some lucky miracle if it did to be sure. I feel sorry for customs fans.

*muffled dying in the distance*

I don't know anything about Denver nor do I know anything about taking friends out for a night on the town.

Just throw money at everything and overkill it.

Brown.

Babby's first babby

Escape from Arc is so bad that I just idol the entire game if i get it.

I enjoy going for casual splatters and goofing around in scout hogs.

Gotta capitalize on that ONI scout hog.

Quote from: Snowtrap on December 16, 2015, 05:29:23 PM

Here's an interesting thought for you then. Take a look at me. I'm never going to be a somebody who builds a technical marvel. I'm not gonna be some genius inventor. Or behind some massive movement or great technology.

Now, look at it this way. Have you ever met somebody, who was really, really god damn smart in their field? Enough that you would consider a genius? I've met a few people. And there's a catch to almost all of them. Did you catch the keywords I used?

"in their field."

You can be a genius, but it comes with a price, it seems. One area of expertise climbs higher than all the others, but all the others are often left behind. To the point that they might even be lower than the average of an arguably simple person.

So, while they have a field of expertise and a base of knowledge in an area in which they will forever be higher than me, be capable of excelling in farther than I ever will, and learning faster in than I ever will, I have benefit of being multi capable.

I'm not a genius. But I can make my own progress based on the work of geniuses before me. I might not reach their height of expertise in one field, but at the same time, I'm not just versed in one field. I'm half versed in multiple fields. I've got bits and pieces of knowledge from all over that allow me not to just to climb one ladder, but multiple ones, at an albiet slower rate than the single ladder a genius or exceptionally smart person would climb.

Which has it's own advantages.

Now take that concept and apply it to yourself. Because it certainly could be applied. Probably to a lot of people here.

I don't buy that. I've met one of the smartest people in my country, but he was more handsome, and generally smarter than me. He had spent his time wisely by reading philosophy, and he was very good at math. He wasn't all serious, and enjoyed normal things as well.

I'm not saying it's an absolute deal here. There's a lot of variables to people. You can have smart folks higher up on the scale who make good all rounders too.

Quote from: Snowtrap on December 16, 2015, 10:00:31 PM

The aluminum cans ain't too good for your health either, alongside the soooooooda.

But aluminum is non toxic

Sorry slick. Ingesting metal into your body isn't a good thing. Aluminum has a habit of leeching into things. Aluminum has a very, very long, long list of health issues it can pose. Aluminum has no usage in our bodies whatsoever, which means that any aluminum we ingest stays there and collects over time.

And, surprise surprise, you can both be poisoned by too much aluminum in your body, much like lead poisoning, and there's even some folks who are allergic to it. Aluminum, in fact, is quite toxic. There was a big hubub about it a while back.

You can thank lobbyists for keeping it mostly under wraps and out of the way of big time scrutiny.