Recent content by Sims2789

Like most PC microphones, my mic doesn't have a physical push to speak button. In most games I bind it to the v key or something. In Civ 5, I haven't been able to figure out how to use it as a push to talk mic, much less use it at all, so I'm forced to type in multiplayer. In the menus...

Wait wait wait. Do you and fifty know each other in real life? Your userpages reference each other a lot. Or is she one of your sockpuppets?

I checked agree, but it probably depends on the area. I bet more people die from accidentally shooting somebody who they think is a burglar than die from being unable to defend themselves from somebody with a gun. I don't support banning civilians from carrying all guns but doing so is the...

Plus, this whole outcry over the $165 million helps legitimize the bailout since AIG "misused" that $165 million.

They aren't really bonuses or golden parachutes. They were additions to their salaries to get executives to stay with AIG for another year. When companies go bankrupt, the first thing they pay is owed wages to employees so they'd have to pay them even if AIG wasn't bailed out. AIG didn't go...

It isn't hypocritical with all drugs; smoking doesn't greatly alter the mind like LSD, etc. even though it's very harmful to the user.

If he weren't an athlete I'd consider boycotting Kellogg, though I probably wouldn't follow through with it since I seem to be unwilling or unable to boycott things forever. It sends a bad message to kids to ostracize somebody for their personal lifestyle and habits, but swimmers shouldn't do...

Assuming the courts would uphold it. They could cite Article I Section 3 and say that the Senate violated its own rules by using the nuclear option. They could just as sensically say it's a political question left up to the Senate but they probably wouldn't do that since doing so would create a...

Back in the old days (after secret holds were rarely used, before the current situation), I'm pretty sure senators had to actually physically speak to hold a filibuster, instead of simply voting to not end "debate" without anybody actually physically reading jibberish on the Senate floor. This...

Google Ocean might be more precise than depth charts. For example, there might be an area with lots of steep crevices a couple feet deep that won't affect whether a boat can pass over that area without running aground (and thus won't be on depth charts) but where rockfish like to hide when the...

I figured out the bug: It thinks that the San Francisco Bay Area (and by coincidence, all the other areas I tested) is land, so I can't view the ocean floor beneath it. I'm still amazed that Google designed a product that took the better part of an hour to figure out how to use. By the way, you...

My God indeed, since I got my hopes up that I'd actually be able to explore the sea floor of an area where I fish at a lot. But Google doesn't make their underwater view easy to figure out how to use nor do they say how to activate it, thereby rendering it utterly useless.

Apparently, Google doesn't tell you, nor make it intuitive to figure out, how to see beneath the ocean (as Google's video does at 1:02), which is the main feature they're touting in their recent update of Google Earth. Selecting new ocean layers, as the video suggests, does not work. The...

I think that when a number greater than +0 m is selected that this shows areas that will be at or below sea level at the selected level of flooding, not areas that will actually be flooded. Death Valley, which is already below sea level, becomes blue when I select +1 m even though it's miles...

The guy that gets shot is not one of the four people visible throughout most of the video. Watch the news story first; it explains it well. I couldn't find the shooting too till I saw the news story.