@daqman:
Woo hoo, score one for computer geeks! Now maybe we'll get the glory and the chicks too, just like those aircraft maintenance dudes.
@Geph_knows_more:
I dunno, man. 5-7 nukes is plenty for me to soil my drawers. Let's see... that's one each for: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Honolulu at least. If you give them 7, let's add Anchorage and what the hell, Fresno.
I say no thanks to the fire storm of "only" 5-7 nukes.
@Serolf Divad:
"For Sale: iPodSwallow, slightly used. Pick up only."
"For Sale: iPodSwallow, slightly used. Pick up only."
@DeadWriter:
Take off every 'MIG'!!
"We count three Rebel UAVs, Lord Vader, but they're so small they're evading our turbolasers."
@Froggmann:
I'm from LA too, and I was thinking the exact same thing... what's so crazy about these? OK the one that goes through the building -- fine, CRAZY. But the rest are just your average, run-of-the-mill, seven-level, eight-way interchanges. zzz
"Febtober!"
btw... I know I helped grow this puppy, but...
SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT DOWN THIS THREAD BEFORE IT TAKES OVER GIZMODO!!!!!
@wlawyer:
I'm not saying that logic automatically wins. But if you want to introduce a faith-based belief (creationism) into a logic-based forum (PUBLIC school science education), you have to debate it on its logical merits.
Same going the other way with evolution or any other scientific topic; if you want to introduce it into a faith-based forum (like a Sunday sermon), you have to debate it on its faith-based merits. (Just as the Episcopal church has done with evolution... [www.pandasthumb.org]).
Don't get me wrong, I'm a bit of a libertarian at heart (which I think you might be too), and I wouldn't want the government telling me what I can learn or can't learn. But if the government (e.g., the governor of Alaska) came in and said that the Flat Earth Theory should be discussed in the same class as the Round Earth Theory, you bet I'd be upset about its commitment to science and science education.
@wlawyer:
"Debate both sides" of the evolution question? What two sides are those? That's what is scary about McCain's potential VP -- there ARE no two sides about this in the scientific community... just as there are no two sides to debate in the Theory of Gravity.
The scientific method (which is the real breakthrough in the last 1000 years that has allowed us to achieve our current understanding of the physical universe) does allow for debate and alternate theories -- but only if those scientific theories can be backed up by physical evidence or observation, and if the theory makes testable hypotheses.
Creationism has neither of those, and thus does not belong in any scientific "debate".
If we're going to talk about science and science education, we have to talk about McCain's first REAL decision as an executive.
He picked Sarah Palin to be his VP, who believes that creationism should be taught in schools. Who doesn't believe global warming is man-made. Who does not support stem cell research.
Though I hate to agree with Hollywood stars, I second Matt Damon's open question to Palin: Does she believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed?
If this is the first staffing decision he makes and it's so obviously disastrous to science, how can we be confident in his commitment to science as an ideologically neutral, research- and evidence-based endeavor?
looks like a map made up of giant sperm from hell
Awesome, now they'll be able to "find" those missing weapons of mass destruction!
Many Gizmodan brain cells died... to bring us this information.
So does this mean every post will have a "FRST!!11!" at the top of the comments section now?
I prefer the hammer. Merciless, final, complete.
i'm in ur uncanny valley, creepin out ur kidz
X-COM, please.
I agree with Krondonian... I think people are losing sight here of the real issue -- it's not so much the $3m bonus for a good year (though that's pretty insane -- at those levels, money just becomes a way to keep score, not pay the bills), it's that if the year had sucked, they'd still be getting a healthy sum.
Capitalism is about investors pooling resources to acheive what each investor could not do individually. Nothing in capitalism says that the single guy in charge should get paid obscene amounts of money for the work the entire company did. If anything, it's a perversion of what shareholders should be getting -- a higher dividend and/or stock price!
How about a stock buyback instead, ATVI?
Three words:
The. Final. Countdown.
