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  1. Posted

    Well yes, but I mean is the ATSC television set going to be unable to understand (i.e. convert into a usable video output) the output of a player made for DVB-T due to file format crap? Do I need specialized software (or a special DVB-T reader), or are they going to have a mismatch?

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    Ok, thank you. I mainly wanted to know if there was an incompatibility between ATSC televisions (ATSC is the HDTV format that replaced NTSC when the USA went to digital broadcasting) and disks made for PAL (or whatever the digital format that replaced PAL is). I am prepared to buy a UK-region DVD player, but I wanted to know if it would be useless without being connected to a UK-region television.

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    15 hours ago, hkmaly said:

     interesting how the race started to be issue only when it's relevancy started to decline ...

    ... and by "interesting" I mean "suspicious".

     

     

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    Race started to matter politically once it became clear that political authority was needed in order to force social stratification (i.e. keeping the less-favored groups out of the professional and ruling classes). White farmers don't campaign against black folks when 90% of blacks exist only in subservient roles--they do it when the black folks actually start to compete with them for jobs, housing, schools, and influence. Nobody bothers to spend effort on preventing earthworms from flying, after all.

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    I know that it's officially illegal to view any video that the copyright holders have decided is not profitable to release in one's country/region, but that's not what I was asking. I was asking if it is possible to play a UK or Europe region DVD (or Blu-Ray) on one of its native players, but is connected to a US-region television set. I want to know if it's possible to just pop in the disk and go, without having to deal with file management or conversions or any hardware outside of the DVD player and television.

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    1 hour ago, CritterKeeper said:

      And it works, too -- the main reason I buy DVDs these days is for the extras, going so far as at get Doctor Who DVDs from the UK because they have more commentary tracks than the American releases.

    ehahe

     

    I've been wondering about compatibility issues regarding buying DVDs from UK/Europe--do you need only a DVD player with the correct region encoding, or do you also need a TV set that can display PAL or whatever digital format has replaced it? As far as I know, my own TV can only display ATSC/NTSC . . .

  10. Posted

    12 hours ago, Scotty said:

    It's possible Tensaided only has that one store and that it's not part of a franchise. Also we don't know if streaming services like Netflix exist in EGS, at least I don't recall seeing mention of any, so maybe video stores still have a good market hold.

    Tensaided seems to act as though he is the supreme authority in his store, with no corporate overseers who might overrule his eccentricities.

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Xenophon Hendrix said:

    There might be few laws about magic and magic tech in general. Didn't the author say that magic can do anything but time travel? It's difficult to pass laws about something like that. The prime rule might be, "Don't let the mundanes know how easy magic is to get, or we will end you." Otherwise, kidnapping is still kidnapping, and bank robbery is still bank robbery, even if you use magic to commit the crimes.

    Legally speaking, use of magic in committing a crime may just be an extra "enhancement" to the charges, like how robbery, assault, or battery charges are strengthened when the offender used a "deadly weapon".

     

    47 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Most flying saucers are showing manoeuvres proving they don't really NEED something as primitive as heat shield.

    (snip)

    I'm guessing that he DID reported it but did it in a way which didn't attracted attention to it. Pandora might not be entirely truthful when she talked about full disclosure but her explanation makes sense and Edward can't really afford someone discovering he was hiding something from FBI. Also, as a head of paranormal division, working inside the system was much more effective than trying to hide it completely.

    I think Tedd is classified as contract worker for FBI or something like that somewhere. And result of his reverse engineering is on file. And maybe he already build few more copies for FBI internal use.

    Remember that DBG was not supposed to be enemy. And we are still not sure if it changed with Arthur Arthur - Edward doesn't agree with his goals but may still trust him with the informations.

    Well ... it was just almost and it wasn't anyone important. Keeping secrets - proving he can't be trusted - will be worse.

    It's not official regulation - officially nothing like TF gun exists. So there is not official license either. Which likely makes easier for Tedd to be allowed to own it and manufacture it.

    Remember the ID Tedd shown to security guard of PTTAPUTASF? Maybe the reason he had any relevant ID was BECAUSE the TF gun.

    Remember that only reason DGB knows about the high levels of ambient magic in Moperville is that Tedd told them. Even without knowing the details about his magical analysis ability, his research is extremely valuable for them.

    Edward very well may have told his superiors that Tedd is tinkering with Uryuom Cosmetic Morphing Devices and exploring their applications to Humans, but not that the device in question is banned by Uryuom governments. He may have also omitted the fact that Tedd has mastered techniques for creating "clone forms" that may be able to spoof biometric security measures such as cameras, voiceprint, fingerprint, eyescan, and possibly even DNA analysis.

    As for the flying saucer heat shields thing, any time that you're moving faster than 2 km/s or so through atmosphere, you're going to heat up, so it's worthwhile to be able to survive it even if "heat shield" means "coated with super-resistant ceramic that lasts a hundred years of service" rather than "sacrificial ablative material". Also, aerobraking is free delta-v, so unless you're packing so much propulsion in your landing craft that the 8-20 km/s that you would save with each aerobraking reentry is completely irrelevant, then you may as well not look a gift horse in the mouth.

  16. Posted

    4 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    This is true and also very important. One thing I find helpful to remember: if someone comes at me angry about something I said, however innocent my intent, they may well have cause. In that case my first priority must be to find out what it was I did wrong so I won't repeat it. And one cannot always expect people to behave reasonably when one has hurt them. In the best cases I've been able to work out what I did wrong and at the same time conveyed my apologies. That often goes a long way towards better communication afterwards.

    Enough times I've come across a situation where I'm talking to two groups at the same time, and group A demands terminology X and takes offense at all others, while group B demands terminology Y and takes offense to all others. In such a situation there is NO way not to offend one of them, because satisfying the one inherently offends the other.

  17. Posted

    On 5/1/2016 at 10:37 PM, The Old Hack said:

    Clearly, a saucer-shaped craft implies that it is being propelled by a teacup. :danshiftyeyes:

    But to be serious, a saucer shape is good for a landing craft--edge-on it behaves as a lifting body, and flat-on you can use the underbelly as a heat shield for atmospheric entry.

    Anyway, when Will and Gill spoke about the TF-Gun being illegal on the Uryuom homeworld, to me it seems that they were speaking in a manner that implied that even on Earth they weren't sure that they were 100% out of the reach of the long arm of the law of the homeworld governments. This would imply that it is not a journey of multiple years to travel between the Uryuom planet and Earth. Also, since we have not been told the human name for the Uryuoms' native star, it is probable that said star is not one of the ones that has a well-known name among humans (e.g. Tau Ceti or Altair or Vega), but rather is one that we only know by a catalog number (e.g. Lalande 21185 or Glise 581).

  19. Posted

    4 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    I think we can skip the 'to women' part and simply label them 'inherently offensive.'

    They strike me as the embodiment of the ultimate dream of a group of extra-immature Frat Boys and bully-type high school athletes--their society is set up to give them (or at least those who dominate among them) all of the sex, booze, and bullying that they could want.

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  20. Posted

    The real trouble comes when people within the group itself can't agree on the terminology with which to refer to themselves, and each sub-faction rejects the others' choices of terms. The infighting can be epic, and all outsiders had better agree with ALL sides of the argument (including agreeing with each side's rejection of the others), or else be branded an enemy. It's "my way or the highway" with multiple mutually exclusive "one true ways", meaning that there is NO possible position or lack-of-a-position that will not make you somebody's enemy. Hooray for double binds. 

  24. Posted

    14 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Turning mundane items into weapons could work as well, pick up a pipe and turn it into a sword, maybe that would be the workaround for the higher level spell to give the caster a weapon without needing a stored physical item, instead of just creating one out of thin air, convert actual matter. a weapon created that way should certainly last longer than one solid hit too.

     

     

    Abraham appeared to have something like this, with that object that he transformed into a sword and then an axe. Reshaping something into an object of the same substance but a different shape may also be easier/more resistant to disenchantment than converting something into a different substance (e.g. steel pipe into steel sword vs. wooden pole into steel sword).

    As for the laser gun idea, any laser gun that Susan gets her hands on is probably going to be Uryuomtech or some secret DGB device. The Uryuoms are implied to be at least a century or two ahead of us technologically, after all--they've had FTL travel since at least 1947 (Date of the Roswell Incident. We know for sure that they've been on Earth for at least forty years minimum since Noah is a second-generation Uryuom/Human hybrid and William, who was Born in the USA, is at least 36 due to the "I could run for President" comment nearly a year ago in story time.).

  25. Posted

    Yes, Elliot seems to self-identify more by values such as friendship and loyalty and honesty than by masculinity. It probably helps that Elliot's friends, aside from Justin and Greg, are all either female or do not conform to masculine stereotypes--this prevents the sort of "echo chamber" effect that happens when people of exclusively one type gather together.