RicOlie_2

generalfrevious said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

generalfrevious said:

It totally sucks that I am living in the last decades of humanity, and that all life on Earth will probably be wiped out.

The largest extinction event in history -- the Permian-Triassic extinction event -- wiped out 96% of all marine species and 70% of all terrestrial vertebra species. Yet look at the Earth now -- chockful of life in all it's various forms.

Somehow, I don't think something as relatively minor as global warming is going to be the straw which breaks the Earth's back.

 I disagree. Global Warming WILL destroy 100% of all living organisms on Earth within the next century. We have never seen this before; and science will probably confirm my worst fears a few years from now. They could predict a 10-12 C rise in temperature by 2100 instead of 4-6 C. We could see South America, Africa, and half of Asia rendered uninhabitable much sooner than we expect; maybe by 2030 or 2040. The news is getting progressively worse every year.

 Scientists were predicting last winter that the icecap over the North Pole would be gone in 2015 (no joke). They seem to suck at predicting things.

Regardless, how would a 10-13 degree rise in temperature wipe out all living things? The temperature of the world has dropped and risen to far greater extremes in the past, so why would it wipe everything out this time? I can't imagine that everything would be wiped out if it was 35 to 40 degrees C in the summer and -20 to -10 degrees in the winter in Alberta (which is what it would be like with a 10 degree change). I'm pretty sure most things could survive within that temperature range, or at least move north (or be moved north, in the case of plants). Also, just because the good ol' U.S. of A. is warming up does not mean that the whole world is. Antarctica, for instance, is as cold as ever, if not colder.

Post Praetorian said:

RicOlie_2 said:

I only started frequenting Off Topic at the very end of November, so if you'd made your thread a bit earlier, it would have dropped off the first page by that time. Then I would have never been introduced to Shogi... :'(

 I did not play Shogi with you before that? I suppose it is possible...I stopped playing shortly after one of the pieces on my board went missing during one of our moves. 

 If we did play together, it was a long time ago, as I don't have any recollection of doing so.

My first move is Pf3-g4.

I only started frequenting Off Topic at the very end of November, so if you'd made your thread a bit earlier, it would have dropped off the first page by that time. Then I would have never been introduced to Shogi... :'(

generalfrevious said:

RicOlie_2 said:

A change of 6-10 degrees is not going to wipe out mankind. It just means that Canada is going to get more crowded. :(

 At least Canada is a great country :)

 Holy carp, generalfrievious said something positive! And he used a smiley!

What more is there to say?

I just realized that I likely wouldn't have ended up playing Shogi with you if you had made this thread just one week earlier than you did.

My baby brother took his first steps today. He's only made it to three without support, so it can't exactly be called walking, but it's still pretty good for a less-than-ten-months-old baby. :)

I'm using the spreadsheet. I've written in the coordinates, so they should match up unless the coordinates are done differently than in Kokusai Sannin. My dad may not be ready to play just yet, so we'll have to be patient for a little while. I think I'll take back my move, so he can make the first move when he's ready. It messes up our old order, but at least we're not stuck waiting between moves one and two.

A change of 6-10 degrees is not going to wipe out mankind. It just means that Canada is going to get more crowded. :(

timdiggerm said:

J'ai dit que mon français est terrible, parce que j'étudie l'espagnol et la russe. Maintenant j'utilise Google Traduction pour mon français.

J'ai corrigé toutes vos erreurs.

As for ciphers, I'd say that 27 is Y would make sense in a substitution cipher, but only for an alphabet with 27 or more characters. 

Ah, now I know what sense of cipher you meant.

JEDIT: Probably worth saying that only parts of the "French" above were written with Google. Other parts were just..attempted.

 Indeed.

Votre français est terrible (c'est « quel » que vous voulez dire, pas « qui », lequel signifie « who » ou « that »), mais les chiffres sont « 2 » et « 7 ». Je pense que ça n'est pas le réponse vous voulez, mais je ne connais pas bien le sens de « cipher » que vous utilisez.

Indeed, but we shouldn't presume he's guilty when he could be innocent. I think the evidence points the opposite way, but many rapes have been made up in the past. Fourteen victims is a lot, though.

timdiggerm said:

RicOlie_2 may have said:

Y is 27

Which cipher?

In French, please.

Here's another side to the whole Bill Cosby thing:

http://spectator.org/articles/60986/online-lynching-bill-cosby

I have no opinion at the moment. Neither side seems more convincing than the other.

"Rest of the forum"...what are you talking about?

TV's Frink said:

Ric, Y U make no sense?

 That is correct. Y = 27 does make sense however, especially if y = 2x + 7 and x = 10.

I really hope he's innocent, but the evidence doesn't seem to point that way at the present moment. It's sad if it's true.

AntcuFaalb said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Why are 27?

This is the best question ever asked on OT.com.

 :P

Obviously, I meant to say that Y is 27.

timdiggerm said:

Things which this forum member is which may be relevant to questions:

- a Protestant, Presbyterian Christian

Why are you Christian? Why Protestant Christian? Why specifically Presbyterian?

- a high school computer science teacher who used to be a professional software engineer

Why?

- an umarried, American 27 year old man

Why are you unmarried? Why are you American? Why are 27? Why are you a man?

- an owner of a 99 Honda Civic

Why?

- Some kind of political conservative, probably. I'm more just interested in local control of power

 Why?

If you mean the same order of play, why not. My move is then P6i-5h.

Oh. I didn't realize OT.com was Hollywood. :P

I wasn't really asking, silly.

I have a question:

Why haven't there been any original threads lately? There have been plenty of old threads bumped, some redundant threads made due to lack of consultation with the New Thread Thread, parody threads, and threads copying other threads, but nothing original.

Warbler said:

****!!  I just got summoned to jury duty again.  : (  grrrrrrrrr!

 Good luck...

Possessed said:

I HATE watching movies with my friends.  They just WILL NOT shut up throughout the entire movie.   They'll make a big point of "yeah yeah let's watch that movie I've always wanted to see that" then throughout the whole thing they just talk to each other and make jokes (which aren't even about the movie just random jokes) and talk about their memories or girls or what the fuck ever for the WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE.  Then every 5 to 10 minutes they'll look at me and be like "So what's going on now?"  And I'm always torn between answering "If you would pay attention for 2 seconds you would know", or the even bitchier "You obviously don't care"

It is really annoying.  I am about to refuse to watch anything with them anymore.

 I can sympathize. However, my experience with talking during movies is the opposite. My dad tends to comment on movies a lot--especially bad ones--and usually makes them more enjoyable. It's almost like live MST3K. :)