Re: Oxidizing Technical Terms!
 

Oxidize (and closely related words) is a technical term.
Burn isn't.
Acid getting on your hand is still said to burn your skin, even if no portion of your skin combines with oxygen in the process. An iron nail sitting in a bucket of oxegenated liquid water usually oxidizes; few people would say it burns there.
Sort of like insect vs. bug. A spider is a bug, but not an insect. Although I can see where people often get confused, as there's a lot of overlap between bug and insect.

?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR
 

2301st post in this thread!

Re: ?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR
 

No, n,o no, it's 2302..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR
 

No, you mean 2303rd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: ?eseehc eht demov ohW :eR
 

You both are wrong. It's clearly the 2304th post.

Re: We wish you an antimatter Christmas...
 

You're all off by one. This is the 2406th post in this thread. It is the 2405th reply.

Re: We wish you an antimatter Christmas...
 

Hmmmm... Ooops.

.foorp on yletanifeD :eR
 

Agreed. Whoops.

Re: .foorp on yletanifeD :eR
 

HE DID IT!
*points at Strategia and runs away*

Re: .foorp on yletanifeD :eR
 

No he must be the perpetrator!!!

/me throws pie at someone random/

elas rof yrteporp tnorfnaecO :eR
 

2310th reply here!

Re: elas rof yrteporp tnorfnaecO :eR
 

/me catches the pie and eats it.

Re: Cheese pie?
 

So, what kind of pie was it? I didn't get too good a look....

Re: Cheese pie?
 

Was it delicious?

Cheese pie? I've never had cheese pie. What kind of cheese is inside cheese pie?

Re: Cheese pie?
 

...I dunno. I ate it too fast.

.huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC
 

Cheese pies contain pie cheese. Duh.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC
 

No. They contain Cream Cheese! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC
 

I used to have a monitor with a degauss button. Every so often, when I'm bored, I'd press the button and watch the screen flicker nicely. But if I press it again it doesn't do much. I have wait a long time and then press it to get the nice rainbow-colored flicker effect.

Can't do this anymore because it's an LCD screen now.

Re: .huD .eseehc eip niatnoc seip eseehC
 

Did you know that if you have a CRT screen, you can make the screen flicker by moving a magnet over the screen, and then hitting the degauss button? No waiting needed! Of course, it does start to damage your monitor after a while...

And there's the auto button on a LCD screen. That makes it flicker.

aes eht ees nac hcrop tnorf ym morF :eR
 

http://www.malfador.com/SE5scr022.htm

.....I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before somebody edits that microscope pic to have three or five eyepieces instead of two http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: OT: Off shore call center workers mad at Amer
 

So what does deguassing do, anyway?

Re: OT: Off shore call center workers mad at Amer
 

It adjusts the electron streams to ambient magnetic fields, or something.

Re: aes eht ees nac hcrop tnorf ym morF :eR
 

Microscopes are fun. I used to have a 900x microscope when I was a kid, and I'd look at all sorts of things. That microscope only had one eyepiece. It was most fun to see amoebas and paramecia swimming around in a drop of water. I'll have to get myself a microscope one of these days and do that again.

Eeh. Mirroring subjects gets old eventually.
 

TIME TO LET THE RACE TO PROFANITY, I mean, INSANITY RESUME!!!!!

Re: Eeh. Mirroring subjects gets old eventually.
 

#(&$)!( #&#!@!#&%!^&#% !*#(!*#)!@(*$^ ~~~~@*$^)*

Re: Eeh. Mirroring subjects gets old eventually.
 

Is this dead yet?

Re: Eeh. Mirroring subjects gets old eventually.
 

Well, it had lain dormant for a month and ten days.....

Re: Eeh. Mirroring subjects gets old eventually.
 

Your fault for posting a link to it and reminding me.

Did I say that was a bad thing?
 

So?

!yaY !stcejbus detrevnI
 

Can anyone tell me why we're still mirroring the post subjects? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Re: !yaY !stcejbus detrevnI
 

Yeah...You!

Re: !yaY !stcejbus detrevnI
 

Interesting news item - Apparently, a squirell broke into an asylum and dragged away several patients.

-Pause-

I'll start running now...

!sllerriuqS
 

Hey now! Squirrells need to stock up on supplies just like everybody else!

Re: !sllerriuqS
 

One thing I find somewhat annoying is when the bosses at the top of the company refer to us employees as "resources." I feel like they only think of us as things, like a piece of equipment to be used.

Beats some things....
 

Yeah.

Sometimes they're simply clueless.

Recently, the company I currently work for was concerned about the high turnover rate. So they had a meeting to try and figure out why. Five or ten of them got together in one of the training rooms, and discussed the matter over pizza and cake. They kicked the training class of about 30-40 out of the training room, and pushed them into the meeting room suitable for about 10.

And they wonder why turnover's so high.

Re: Beats some things....
 

The problem with people and power is some people, once they gain a certain amount of power, begin to feel they are entitled to it.

This leads to the thought that they have a right to exert that power, which leads to the thought that other people don't have the right to exert power against them, which leads to petty tyrants.

Re: Beats some things....
 

I recently learned that a billion is a different number depending on who you talk to.

In school, I learned that 1 billion = 1,000,000,000.
Apparently, it could also mean 1 billion = 1,000,000,000,000.

This must have caused a lot of confusion for people!

Re: Beats some things....
 

Where did you hear that?

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar
 

In Europe, we refer to what you (across the great pond) refer to as a "billion" as a "milliard". A "billion" means "a million times a million", which makes more sense to me as "bi"=2, and our "billion" is a million squared.

Oh, and somehow I snatched up a subject from somewhere over on the Dom2 forums, or so it seems. I think it happened once before.

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar
 

Hey, there have been times where such little discrepancies have cost companies a fair chunk of change (contract spelled out the value via words, such as "three hundred fourty-seven million dollars, USD", rather than typing up the number, such as $347,000,000 USD), depending on where the contract details were arbitrated.....

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar
 

A few days ago, I went to the casino with some friends. I just watched the other guys play and I didn't gamble because I know very well that the games are set up to take your money. Strangely, though, all three of the guys that gambled at the blackjack tables made money, making between $25 and $160 within an hour or so. They made it look very easy.

...But I later found out that they just happened to be lucky that day, and they had lost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars during previous visits to the casino. I have no idea how these guys can afford to lose so much money and keep playing. As far as I know, they're just average guys and they're not rich or anything. But they don't hesitate to bring a few hundred dollars each time they visit the casino and blow it all. That just doesn't make sense; it's kind of an expensive form of entertainment. For me, every dollar is precious and I'd hate to lose my hard-earned money gambling when I could use it to buy groceries.

How random is \"random\"?
 

Yep. It's also a psychologically addictive form of entertainment, and the casinos usually set the expected return at about .99 for the player; that is, you bet 1 penny 100 times, and on average, the number of times you win and the number of times you lose will leave you with 99 pennies. $20 will go a long ways on the nickel machines. A lot of the times, a "good" gambler isn't actually spending any more money on gambling in a given month than a smoker does on cigaretts in the same timeframe. Both will often make ends meet by skimping a might on meals - hamburger rather than pork chops, and the like.

People who don't know when to stop, though... they tend not to have houses, cars, or friends after a while.

Re: How random is \"random\"?
 

Actually, for blackjack, it is possible with a certain style of playing to actually beat the house, by about 0.01%. It's a small advantage, but it means you're actually gaining money.

And if you're not that good, you can just try to have fun, instead of winning money.

Re: How random is \"random\"?
 

Or, you could simply go about twenty or thirty feet from your garbage can, and start playing hoops with coins.

sroxxus gnilbmag
 

I have several friends and plenty more extended family members that enjoy casino gambling quite a bit. The only way I could justify it to myself would be in the "winning big" stories and the illusion that you are getting free drinks. But maybe that's because I play other games that suck away only your free time... but still, stories of how you won thousands at a casino are generally more popular than ones of how you crushed United Flora after a brutal campaign.

Re: sroxxus gnilbmag
 

Yeah, but after you crush United Flora, you'd have at least several hundred worls, after which winning the lottery is kinda redundant.

Re: sroxxus gnilbmag
 

Yeah, but those several hundred worlds are just easily erased electrons and magnetic data on a disk, which a single person can destroy with only one hand.

Re: sroxxus gnilbmag
 

...*Sniffle*...

Re: Soronus Sounds
 

Hey now, it's HARD to open up a computer case with just one hand!

Re: Soronus Sounds
 

Uh... Close SE4, delete the savegame file, overwrite the data a few dozen times.