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For anything older (released before 2011.09.07) you could check the torrent in my sig, or use FlashBot on the IRC channel (irc://#fakku@irc.rizon.net).

OFF: I'm working on a new version, I've just been busy with real life and translators are way too prolific for me to catch up with in the short time I do have available.

IIRC Sahadou is still working on this, just be patient, the man has a backlog of commissioned stuff longer than my PENIS.

If you're worried you could commission the latest volume yourself, provided you got hold of a RAW.

Since this is pretty much a request, the topic is now locked.

Just press Ctrl+J to enable/disable the info.

As my 2nd waifu this game, I claim Abriel Nei Debrusc Borl Paryun Lafiel from the Seikai no Senki franchise by Morioka Hiroyuki.



Just as with my two other waifu, there's more to Lafiel than what meets the eye and this carries on to her behavior as well. Seemingly a spoiled little princess, she's in fact a very motivated and conscientious noble, who's doing her best to discharge her obligation.

The fact that her species also tries to enforce noblesse oblige doesn't detract from this, since she's doing this for her own reasons... some of which are pretty mundane with endearing stories behind them. I'd be delighted to keep her company if for nothing else then to clash my, social-democrat ideals of politics with her elitist ones.

Micro Gallery:

If you go with a custom firmware, you might wanna check out the list of what "flavors" are available before you go and buy a router, as some models can do significantly more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmware_projects

For instance, I've been using OpenWRT with a TP-Link WR1043ND and by attaching an external hard-drive through USB turned it into a "full fledged" machine, so it does torrenting on its own or act like an FTP server.

Don't tempt fate. They can always start IP filtering too. :p

Creating "derivative" products within the limits of free use (analysis, satire, re-mix) should be totally OK. Anything that's original work has even more protection.

DMCA provides a safe-harbor clause to content hosters - which is what FAKKU is for content uploaded by the users - and the only requirement is remove any content the host owner *knows* to be violating copyright law, as well as to comply with DMCA take-down notices that inform him of such violations.

It is *not* the hoster's responsibility to monitor user generated/uploaded content, but the copy-right owners to do the monitoring and notify hosters when a violation occurs.

In your case, FAKKU can claim to have acted in good faith, as derivative works are protected under fair use.

PS: IANAL, so take all of this with a pinch of salt.

Next time read the stickies before posting - thread moved.

...it's 6 hours, after the rounds has ended, *not* since the start.

I hereby claim Tohsaka Rin from Fate/Stay Night as my 1st waifu.



She's the dream girl of men who want more in a girl than a pretty face or a submissive personality. She's as far as from the traits of the emotionally retarded and childish girls - nowadays codified as MOE - as one could ask for.

I hope we can get through the first date without her shooting me with Gandr or her having to regrow my vital organs after a homicidal Irishmen stabbed them.

Micro-gallery:

A nuclear reactor operates on the principle of nuclear fission sustained by a chain reaction. All known fissile materials, have a given probability to fission when hit with a neutron. This is not 100%. When fission *does* occur, you get fissison products (the split remains of the old nucleus) and 2 or 3 (on average 2.4) free neutrons, that can go on and produce further fission reactions... or just get wasted, being absorbed or leaving the reactor space without doing any work.

For a working reactor you need to keep the number of fissions going high enough by keeping absorption and neutron escape in control, so the reaction can sustain itself. Neutron flux, is a fancy way to refer to the neutron density for a given space.

Increasing the reactor / fuel size increases the chance of a reaction occurring, as neutrons have a lot more chance to split an atom as they need to go through more fuel before leaving the reactor.

The reverse is also true, the smaller the reactor, the harder to keep the reaction going, as you'll loose a lot more neutrons, escaping the reactor chamber without having caused a reaction.

Choosing the right fuel can also help, keep a high flux. Remember when I said that fuel doesn't have a 100% chance to fission? U-238, the bulk of natural uranium has a lousy tendency to just absorb neutrons (...and through a beta decay chain, eventually transform into Pu-239, the stuff used in neutron bombs). U-235 by comparison is quite a handy fuel, but you need to process your fuel with very expensive enrichment processes to increase its quantity.

(This is because U-238 & U-235 are chemically identical. They react the same way in chemical processes. The only way to separate them, is to use the minuscule difference in density - as U-238 has 3 more neutrons).

Having a highly enriched fuel will make absorption less likely, hence make it possible to build a smaller reactor.

...I could go on and on, the bottom line doesn't change:

These engineering constraints are dictated by nuclear physics itself, and are already pretty well known and we've already hit the physical limits of reactor design quite a while ago.

Some tricks may remain, like using fuel in liquid nuclear salts instead solid oxides, however I don't think you could make fission reactors small enough for use in most fighting vehicles.

(Isotope electric power sources are another issue, albeit even more - say a 1000 times - expensive then fission reactors, as you'd need to artificially create your fuel in breeder reactors. Americium was often proposed for this).

1) The reporter who wrote article about "force-fields" is a dumbass, as he didn't understand what he was writing about. It's not a "force-field", it's reactive armor that uses a highly charged conductive layer sandwiched into the armor itself. When a penetrator makes contact (either the plasma jet from a shaped charge or a kinetic penetrator), the charge is discharged, vaporizing the penetrator and greatly reducing its effectiveness.

2) You can't miniaturize nuclear power-plants like you do computers. You gotta have a sufficient neutron-flux, to keep the reaction going. Using better enriched fuel, reflectors, etc. can make it smaller, however these have been developed long ago for submarine reactors... and such "mil-spec" reactors (running on highly enriched fuel, almost weapons grade) are still not small enough to fit on a tank that's reasonably small. (You can't just make it bigger... then it can't cross bridges that weren't specially reinforced, nor fit through tunnels and let's not forget that tanks are typically transported to the battlefield, as they're not designed to cross long distances on their own, so you'd need to redesign all your transport vehicles from ships, through airplanes/helicopters to trains.).

I said they're inviable as *weapons* platforms.

As utility tools/vehicles? That could actually work. The Bigdog's job is to help soldiers carry shit over terrain where wheels can't go, so the developers have a solid, well defined goal in mind instead the animu shit most people associate with walkers of any sort. While Raytheon is busy playing up the "Iron Man" angle tp thump up funding & interest in the project (since just like the public, the political establishment is full ignorance concerning all things military), to the actual armed forces, they're pitching the SARCOS & Big Arm exoskeletons as logistical tools to make loading of heavy equipment & ordnance easier.

Eventually this could encompass things like towing artillery / missile / AA batteries/radars, as those things are *already* expensive, vulnerable pieces of hardware where the ability to move them across difficult terrain could justify the greater price-tag in terms of the flexibility to the force owning a couple of these things.

(Probably only a handful, as air-power has largely replaced classical artillery, while missile launchers have ranges that make "having to move them into hills" pointless most of the time.

Maybe in the crazy world where laser AA is actually effective... then both the artillery piece and the (laser?) AA piece itself would be worthwhile investments).

Ah, a Sane poster at last.
But humongous mecha as a weapon platform? ROLF.
Tanks have a lower profile, sloped armor, bigger area to distribute their weight and lot less unarmored joints & axles to get shot to bits (...or spend days, maintaining). Tanks are already maintenance hogs, mecha would be all the more worse.

The Firewall in Windows 7 allows you to do just that.
Control Panel --> Windows Firewall --> Advanced Settings

OR

All Programs --> Administrative Tools --> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

My only complaint is that softwares can still add themselves to the Firewall without the user being aware of this. Thanks to UAC the issue is not as severe as it used to be on XP, but it still exists.

Thank Ben for all of us, I'm sure a lot of English fans are delighted due his work!

PS.: Any news on getting either DHL, FedEx, etc. as shipping options?

Maybe the search bar should forward these common variations of series/franchise names.

Hmm... another layer of complexity to search.

It's doable, but I'm not sure it's a good idea until the rest of the site has been fixed. (Beyond the ever clamored for file server, I also mean small things like the translator data-sheets or the darn CSS styling on elements).

Series names with punctuation marks are having issues.

Updated OP page.

Requests go in the appropriate forum... since someone answered your question, I'm just going to move the thread there, but I was mighty tempted to just delete it, as you've bumped the topic and whined like a petulant child when no one bothered to answer your demands immediately.

You've been warned, next time I'm just gonna delete your mis-placed request on sight.